My Deneb is here! (a little excited here)

[sandpiper]

@countzero

also having USB ports on the back of your unit is rather awkward. Does somebody have a good idea for a A4000 case mod ?

I just bought a 3' usb extension cable so that it comes around to the front of the case. It costs about $5.

[Pyromania]

If you have one of these cards installed can you use a USB flashdrive as a boot drive?

[MozzerFan]

Y

If you have one of these cards installed can you use a USB flashdrive as a boot drive?

Yes.

[mbrantley]

Lloyd, thanks very, very much. That version of scsi.device does the job, and now I'm running with NOROMUPDATE on the setpatch line. It does shave a small amount of time from bootup.

I've learned some stuff here that explains to me why I can't get my SCSI port on my 1200 working. I forget which SCSI expansion it is, but I think it was by the Dataflyer people. It plugs into the IDE header and allows five SCSI devices and two IDE devices. I can't get it working with OS 3.9, and that's why I no longer have a SCSI CD-ROM attached to my 1200.

I think it must patch scsi.device to make it work, but I'm relying on the newest OS setpatch to patch scsi.device to allow larger hard drives. When I was fighting this I was trying to do it by skipping the romupdate for scsi.device, which caused problems with the hard drive.

Oh, well. The 1200 is OK without a CD-ROM drive since it is on the network with a PCMCIA card. Now to get file sharing working...

[mbrantley]

countzero wrote:
also having USB ports on the back of your unit is rather awkward. Does somebody have a good idea for a A4000 case mod ?

I'm planning on finding a nice looking powered USB hub that I wouldn't mind having seen on the desk. Then I can plug stuff in without the blind reach around, plus I won't have to worry about drawing too much power from the Deneb USB ports.

if I find the deneb put my x-surf useless, I may put them in sale and buy another for my a3000

For the moment I have an X-Surf and a Deneb in my 4000 and a X-Surf in my 3000, with plans to buy two more X-Surfs for my 2500 and 2000. But it might make more sense to buy another Deneb for my 3000, then use a USB networking solution on the two Deneb machines and move the X-Surf cards to the 2500 and 2000.

I'm just waiting for somebody else to do the USB networking thing first and tell me what to buy and how to install it. Same with USB/AHI audio. :-)

[MozzerFan]

Glad I could help, though all the credits go to the
programmers of the patch. I just applied it.

Regards,
Lloyd

[jj]

@mbrantley

Sorry I really cant resist this one.

"Blind reach around"

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[mbrantley]

 :-o

[Darrin]

I tried the USB DVD drive (HP DVD420e) and the Deneb detected it on startup and then seemed to assign the FAT95 file system to it as if it was treating it as an external hard drive (or possibly because I'm still having trouble with the CD ROM and CD file system although I appear to have CDFS installed).

It also seems that that the problem I've been having with the CD ROM detection might be the hard drive as the faded label on top seems to have seperate jumper configurations for Master and Master with Slave.

[MozzerFan]

I tried the USB DVD drive (HP DVD420e) and the Deneb detected it on startup and then seemed to assign the FAT95 file system to it as if it was treating it as an external hard drive

Start Trident prefs. Goto Classes section and click on
massstorage class. Choose configure and check if the right
filesystem is entered with CD/DVD drives.

Regards,
Lloyd

[Darrin]

MozzerFan wrote:

I tried the USB DVD drive (HP DVD420e) and the Deneb detected it on startup and then seemed to assign the FAT95 file system to it as if it was treating it as an external hard drive

Start Trident prefs. Goto Classes section and click on
massstorage class. Choose configure and check if the right
filesystem is entered with CD/DVD drives.

Regards,
Lloyd

Thanks Lloyd, I'll give that a go.

I know you want to scream "RTFM!!!" at me, so I appreciate the time and effort to post the "idiot's guide".

I'm in the middle of installing a 80GB Hard drive in the A4000 at the moment along with the CV643D and then I'll reinstall the Deneb.

[Darrin]

Well I did a nice clean install of OS3.1 on the new hard drive, installed the Deneb software, installed LHA, installed MUI and ran the USB stack.  Everything works great.

I tested the memory stick and it came straight up and then I tested the USB drive again, but this time it mounted with the correct file system and my good old AmigaOS3.9 icon and Emergency-boot icon appeared on the screen.

Now I just need some Kickstart 3.1 ROMS and I can try to install OS3.9 off the USB DVD+R drive.

[MozzerFan]

I know you want to scream "RTFM!!!" at me

Nah, I know you have a lot on your mind.
Let us know if you can get the USB cd drive to work ok?
It would be nice for people to know what kind of devices
work with the Deneb.

Regards,
Lloyd

[Darrin]

MozzerFan wrote:
Nah, I know you have a lot on your mind.
Let us know if you can get the USB cd drive to work ok?
It would be nice for people to know what kind of devices
work with the Deneb.

Regards,
Lloyd

We must have been posting at the same time.  :-)

That USB DVD+R is working great now I cleaned up the OS3.1 installation.

Also, my wife came out of the hospital yesterday.  Unfortunately after going through another bunch of tests they're still not sure what's causing her heart problems and recommend that she just keeps taking the medications.  At least they seem sure there's no damage to the heart and that something is just screwing the rhythem up from time to time.

[MozzerFan]

That USB DVD+R is working great now

Great !!!

Also, my wife came out of the hospital yesterday

Glad that didn't find anything serious. Best wishes for you and your wife.

Regards,
Lloyd

[mbrantley]

Darrin, glad your wife is home. Hope the doctors get to the bottom of what ails her soon.

Also pleased to hear you got the USB CD-ROM working so well. The Deneb really does drag us into the new century when it comes to modern, common peripherals. If I didn't already save several external NEC SCSI CD drives from the trash at work, I'd go with USB for optical drives sure.

My final vote of confidence for Deneb and Poseidon: I ordered a second Deneb from AmigaKit yesterday and a couple of Belkin F5D5050 USB Ethernet adapters from Amazon today.

Once I get networking through USB/Deneb working on two Amigas, I will have freed up two X-Surf cards for two more of my Amigas.