FS: Pegasos 1 - SOLD

[skurk]

EDIT: SOLD SOLD SOLD

I've decided to sell my Pegasos 1 (non-april).  Included is: Motherboard, G3 CPU board, 128M RAM and a CD with MorphOS 1.4.5.



Asking price: 100 euros / bids

If it's not sold by mid-November, I'm throwing it out on eBay...

EDIT: SOLD SOLD SOLD

[jj]

What is the april fix ?  what are the problems without this fix

is this board better for morphos 2 than effika ?

[skurk]

The april fix is a Northbridge patch, but I have never had any problems with this board myself.  MOS 1.4.5 boots in a couple of seconds and is quite stable, too.

Better for MOS than Efika?  Probably, as you can insert more RAM..


Anyway, the board is now SOLD...

[warpdesign]

What is the april fix ? what are the problems without this fix

is this board better for morphos 2 than effika ?

The Articia northbridge chip corrupts DMA transfers. The April chip is a special chip developped by bPlan that attempts to fix these problems. There were two revisions of this chip: only the second one fixes all corruption problems.

Without this chip, you'll have corruption problems and unexpected lockups of the machine. Corruption problem will happen for example when transfering files from to RAM/HD/CDROM/Network, etc... And anything else which involves DMA transfers.

If you ask me this machine can be used for development purposes. But that's it. You can limit these problems by using lots of buffers, etc.. But there's no way to remove them completly.

And before you ask, the april chip cannot be added on a motherboard not equipped with it...

[skurk]

That said, I've used the machine for a while with MOS 1.4.4 and have only experienced a couple of lock-ups.

[jj]

Sounds as buggy as the A1 boards, and look at the genisis zealots that were harping on about teriible buggy a1 boards, not heard about these problems with the peg1, wonder why that is  :-D

[Fab12]

@JJ,

the big difference to a1/hyperion/eyetech side is that they fixed these issues, first by april and then by getting rid of this lame articia chipset, instead of covering their ears and eyes and denying corruption bugs.

[zylesea]

@ JJ

Never heard of the famous "there is no Mai w/o April"? It was when bplan developed the April fix.
I guess non-April Pegasos boards are quite rare (The 1st April fix came in December 2002). Genesi offered a free exchange programme for non April Pegaos boards (I exchanged mine at the Aachen show).
April 1 still had some minor issues, and April 2 followed April 1, but it was expensive and while stable, performance of the aprilized ArticiaS still was rather low, thus bplan dropped the ArticiaS completely and went the Marvell route with the PegasosII. The PegasosII doesn't have any of these probs.