Buddha 2018

[klx300r]

@ kolla

thanks for the reminder tip:) changed boot priority in HD Tool Box to higher value and then WB booted up normally with Buddha Install folder on it:hammer:
All fine now so just have to wait for my new 40 pin DOM to arrive to copy my WB partition on 'real' IDE HD over to it & all good!

I thought the DOM that came with the Buddha had some install files to go into WB but it's just a partition/disk prep util with WB 3.1 on it & some other stuff

..come to think of it I'm gonna keep that small DOM as my Boot HD backup since you can nver have enough of em

[mechy]

That's some time ago, though. MLC has evolved with consumer product demands, lots of testing and usage by the millions, today there is eMLC (e as in "enterprise") and TLC too flying around. What matters though, is what works, for how long, and how it fails, and it seems to me that many so called "industry" cards are (if not were) rebranded cheap-skate cards.

true,  i just use standard sandisk ultra or extreme cards in every amiga i own,none have failed to this day.
likely if they just rebranded a cheap card it wouldn't be set to fixed disk mode,removable instead but im sure it happens. some older SBC's i used wouldn't see removable cards on their ide but worked with fixed disk industrial transcend cards for example. mileage varies. there used to be a utility to change some brand cards from removable to fixed mode.

[gertsy]

true,  i just use standard sandisk ultra or extreme cards in every amiga i own,none have failed to this day. .....

Me too.

[lost_loven]

Anyone try the public beta yet? If so let me know how it went!
Google translate actually works sometimes on chrome :roflmao::hammer::rtfm:



from A1k.org

Now. Is sometimes difficult when I am the last healthy person in the house; Woman and both children sick greatly reduces the available working time.

First public beta: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:BuddhaSCSI.lha

Please with the flash tool V1.3 import. And please also test with old buddha flash controllers.

A little getting used to "old customers" exists because NO IDE doubters are supported anymore - we need this to have access to the interrupt-enable register of the individual devices. This also makes the unit numbers more intuitive: Master on the first port is Unit 0, Slave is Unit 1. Master on the second port is Unit 2, and Slave on the second port is Unit 3.

In addition, there is no difference between ATA and ATAPI devices at the device name: it is consistently only "buddhascsi.device". CD-ROM mountlists might need to be customized in two places: the device name and the unit number.

If you have a Picasso IV, please also test it: The old ROM was not compatible with the Picasso IV, because there was just a guru on power up. That should be gone now too.

I have to check the CPLD update again: I'm currently having trouble with a Silversurfer on the clockport of my test controller. I still want to find out if they come from the CPLD update, or if the part is just wobbly in itself.

Jens

[LoadWB]

Designing the new Buddha with those 40pin connectors... did Jens really expect everyone to go digging for old IDE hard drives? :crazy:

Nah, just get an IDE-to-SATA bridge.

[kolla]

Nah, just get an IDE-to-SATA bridge.

Hm, I have a few of those, and they are 44 pin.

[Blatboy]

So, I cleaned my contacts on my daughterboard (and the connector on the motherboard to the daughter board and still no love from the DOM.

It doesn't even show up on the boot menu.

lost_loven - maybe you'll have different results -- If yours still doesn't see the DOM,  I can't help but think that our similar setups may be something to consider...

[lost_loven]

So, I cleaned my contacts on my daughterboard (and the connector on the motherboard to the daughter board and still no love from the DOM.

It doesn't even show up on the boot menu.

lost_loven - maybe you'll have different results -- If yours still doesn't see the DOM,  I can't help but think that our similar setups may be something to consider...

Maybe its the 040? I pulled everything out but that. Maybe I will give a try on the weekend. I flashed card and didn't see DOM.  Didn't see 160 gig drivenow either. But It did see 80 Wd drive but that was it. Could'nt partition or anything. wouldnt let hard drive install.

[curtis]

I put my Buddha order in on Feb 8 with a request they update the firmware to the latest and "greatest".  Just got notified it's been picked and will be packed and shipped.

Guess we'll see how it compares to the IDE4Zorro when it gets here.

Here's hoping...

[giZmo350]

I put my Buddha order in on Feb 8 with a request they update the firmware to the latest and "greatest".  Just got notified it's been picked and will be packed and shipped.

Guess we'll see how it compares to the IDE4Zorro when it gets here.

Here's hoping...

Was there any mention on the order that they flashed it? Wonder if they tested it. Let us know OK?

BTW, the IDE to CF adapters arrived yesterday. They didn't work with the IDE4Zorro on my A2K with either HDToolBox or HDInstTools. Gonna try next with the A500 w/Zorro adapter. DOMs are arriving today... gonna give that a whirl too.

[lost_loven]

So confirmed. I pulled out my 3640 and the Dom is recognized and Boots up the Dom when selected an early start up. So just got to get the CPL updated to go along with the new Flash!.. Ugh


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[giZmo350]

So what's involved with getting the CPL updated? Good to know you're progressing!

[lost_loven]

over from A1k.org page 27 .. (google translated)

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=62869&page=27

from Jens .. .

We're working on a method of how anyone can really do the CPLD upgrade themselves: I'll give you (and other customers) a free cable that you plug into the Buddha and an Amiga port. Then you start an Amiga software that we also deliver, and the CPLD update is over.

We should deal with it next week. The cable is simple, can be built by anyone with a little soldering experience. And who does not have this experience, wait until we send the free cable. The fact that I have already released the CPLD upgrade is only "up-front" for those who already have this special equipment at home.

Jens
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[Blatboy]

So confirmed. I pulled out my 3640 and the Dom is recognized and Boots up the Dom when selected an early start up. So just got to get the CPL updated to go along with the new Flash!.. Ugh

I had a feeling it was the 3640. I'm assuming you told Jens?  Seems the 3640 had gotten in the way of the RapidRoad USB as well in the past.  Had to go out of town last minute, so I'm really happy you were able to do that test.

[lost_loven]

By the sounds of his reply on A1k he already knew but stated that the A3640 does work with the upgrade.  ..

So that being said I took my scsi2sd card out of the A3K and put it inside along with the external cd-rom I have and using system like that for now.... making way and space for IDE drive and cf card in the A3K. Have a 500 gig sata drive sitting here ready for install and mother load dump of software on it..:rofl:

[curtis]

Got my Buddha in today and started playing.

Gotta say this thing is finicky!  Using a TrueIDE adapter some CF cards are recognized and some are not.

Sometimes the DOM is seen, most times it isn't.

Tried a couple of 2.1G regular IDE drives (yes a real 3.5") drive and one was seen, the other not.

Like I said.  FINICKY!!!!!