1. the buffer on it is buffering the wrong thing.
2. mechanisms for crossing clock domains is awful.
3. The ram speed is terrible.
4. the whole stability of the card is appalling.
1. the buffer on it is buffering the wrong thing.
I can't remember if I tried the floppy drive but I suspect that I was just as anti-floppy back then as I am today.. so probably notexxos wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:03 pm I think @agranlund might have not used the floppy drive even ? I only got it working from cartridge to run GB6. In any case, the fix was a respin of the board. But people moaned about the lack of ram on the 534 so TF added more on the 536. Nobody cared about the fpu so it was removed as creating a low price point was one of the main objectives.
A lot of problems and fixes were only recently done by myself and @agranlund on the 536. The 534 remains a basically outdated and buggy card. Its a bit of a kick in the teeth for me and all the work I put into testing/fixing/updating the ST536 when people jump 2 generations backwards
Wasn't there some discussion about just that a while back ? Can anyone remember ? I thought there was a FPU emulator which someone was trying out at some point "recently"
Markus only way around it is that you create a drive image in Hatari, put hd-driver on it, then write it to your CF card. In regards to the IDE cable stuff, agranlund details it quite thoroughly in his thread I think. But from what the others here say, it probably isn't worth the effort.Markus608 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:52 pm Anyways...
i still have the problem that it starts to desktop.
Floppy isn't working, so i can't start any HD-Driver from desktop.
Do i need to use a different IDE-cable... maybe with some wires twisted or something ?
If i can't get it working i'll try to use CPU and FPU in another accelerator...
@Markus608, the IDE port pinout is different on Amiga vs Atari.Steve wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:04 pmMarkus only way around it is that you create a drive image in Hatari, put hd-driver on it, then write it to your CF card. In regards to the IDE cable stuff, agranlund details it quite thoroughly in his thread I think. But from what the others here say, it probably isn't worth the effort.Markus608 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:52 pm Anyways...
i still have the problem that it starts to desktop.
Floppy isn't working, so i can't start any HD-Driver from desktop.
Do i need to use a different IDE-cable... maybe with some wires twisted or something ?
If i can't get it working i'll try to use CPU and FPU in another accelerator...
Yep, rev5 I fixed the IDE port. Also did away with the bodge cable for autoboot eventually as well.
Was this before or after the massive investigation into the cache / floppy / MAPROM / TOS issues ?