2022-06-08.log

+ xet7 (~xet7@user/xet7)06:30
+ mnemotron (~mnemotron@194.135.47.239)08:21
+ CottonUndies (~CottonUnd@2405:6580:33c0:b400:f8a8:966f:42e1:fd9d)11:21
CottonUndiesminute sI figured out that the freezing when scrolling in iBrowse is resolved when I change to the Z3 1.11 NOAUTBOOT NOFASTMEM BIOS. I'd like not to loose the 256megs of ram available. Can I do anything to further track this bug down?11:22
CottonUndieshow can I formally register this bug?11:22
mnemotronhowdy. that seems to be the same (?) problem that i have with my A3000 freezing. it's the fastmem in Z3 mode. Haven't tried Z2 mode yet. Did you?11:23
minuteCottonUndies: you can send this diagnosis to support@mntre.com11:33
minuteCottonUndies: can you run a memory test on the z3 fastram area of zz9000?11:34
minutei think the tool bustest can do it11:34
CottonUndiesmnemotron I've only tried the Non-autoboot, no-fast mem bios. I'm not very interested in using the Z2 BIOS on the assumption it will really hit overall performance hard. At the moment I've 64megs available on my WarpEngine, so at least I have that to fall back on.11:35
CottonUndies@minute I can try anything, happy to do so. Before I do I just want to advise that everything else seems to work (copy to the Z3 ram and back, just the scrolling). I'll do a bustest now. BRB (be right back).11:36
mnemotronminute suggested that my problems with the Z3 firmware were caused by the old buster -07 in my amiga 3000. it's recommended to have the newer -10 oder -11 revision, or so. which is assumed to be common knowledge in amiga circles.11:37
CottonUndiesYes, I saw that conversation, I'm pretty sure I have "the" proper buster. I just wish there was a program to tell me that without pulling everything apart....11:44
CottonUndies@minute Intersting, just tested iBrowse to make sure on the BIOS that I swtiched to that the problem was stil there, and instead of a freeze I got short freeze, then a black screen, then a guru for Error: 8000 000B Task: 000003C8. Will bustest now11:50
mnemotronah, this is interesting. rev 09 should be enough for DMA. https://www.amibay.com/forum/amibayers/amioracle/10493-super-buster-11-why?p=252973#post25297311:59
mnemotronhm... "Buster 11 is required for ZORRO III cards to manipulate Multiple DMA Channels correctly"12:00
CottonUndiesminute showconfig has my 256megs at $50000000-$5FFFFFFF. Since there is a memory header at $50000000 (as warned in the bustest readme) I ran bustest as "bustest addr=50010000" and while having terrible performace compated to my warpengine memory, sucseffully completed.12:02
mnemotronminute: do you think the -09 buster would work for the ZZ9000? or is the card using multiple dma channels?12:07
Jopemultiple here means that if you have several dma cards12:08
Jopemore important here is the level 1 vs level 2ness of the buster12:08
Jope-9 and -11 are level 2 busters, of which the 11 works "correctly"12:08
mnemotronthe -11 is very expensive / hard to find and i just found a seller for the -09 for 27 euros... would that be enough to get the ZZ9000 fastmem work correctly?12:09
Jopeso the level 1 -6 and -7 parts don't do zorro3 dma at all12:10
Jopehttp://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/a4000hard/defibust.html did you check this writeup from dave haynie12:10
mnemotronno12:11
mnemotronjeez. why is this so difficult? :(12:11
Jopeok, that's where the common knowledge stems from basically12:11
Joperev 9 in an a3000 without an a3640 might work ok12:11
mnemotroni'm looking at a TF4060 *maybe*12:11
mnemotronwould that require the -11 then`?12:11
Jopeok, it might probably also assume a rev 11 present12:12
mnemotrondarn12:12
mnemotronsince i don't have a 060 the tf4060 is just a possibility atm12:12
Jopejens was doing a buster 12 with dave haynie12:12
Jopebut chip shortage sort of ruined that too12:12
mnemotronoh, right, i saw something about that12:12
Jopescreemo has buster 11s at 60e12:13
mnemotronhttps://forum.icomp.de/index.php?thread/1462-new-buster-chip/12:13
mnemotronscreemo?12:13
Jopea danish user12:13
mnemotronah12:13
JopeI think only reachable via amibay, which has new members on hold.. eh12:13
mnemotronnever registered on amibay - strange forum12:14
mnemotronor i think i TRIED registering years ago and never got an email12:14
Jopeah he's on eab too12:14
Jopehttp://eab.abime.net/member.php?u=6265812:14
mnemotronthanks12:16
Jopeit's painful that everything about getting an old amiga into use involves spend tens to hundreds to thousands12:17
Jopeif you want to expand it12:17
mnemotronwell, i have the A3000 since 1991 or 1992 :) but only upgrading it now12:18
Jopeyeah :-)12:18
Jopedmac/ramsey pairs for the 3k are another kettle of fish12:18
JopeI once owned a dmac04 but sold it with the 3k I installed it into back then.. still regret it, should have downgraded it before selling :-D12:19
mnemotronmy DMAC says 390537-02 :-D12:25
Jopeyep the -04 is so elusive12:30
minutemnemotron: the card is using no DMA at all.12:31
minuteCottonUndies: thanks. i think it's not really related to the Z3 memory then. it might be that this version has slightly different FPGA timing, or that the autoboot stuff interferes somehow (but i don't believe so)12:33
minuteCottonUndies: i can make you a firmware file with autoboot disabled and Z3 memory enabled, you can test that12:33
mnemotronminute: that i would like, too!12:33
mnemotronminute: no dma? sorry, then why was the buster -11 better then? I really am puzzled now (or forgot)12:34
minutemnemotron: sorry, i don't really know. hearsay. i don't know the technical differences/details.12:34
mnemotroni meant better for the zz9000. didn't you recommend the -11, too, a few days ago?12:36
CottonUndiesminute the default size for bustest is rather small at 262144 bytes. I'm trying it at larger amounts now.12:42
Jopewish there were timing diagrams for all of the different busters12:42
CottonUndiesminute the default size for bustest is rather small at 262144 bytes. I'm trying it at larger amounts now. hope it does not crash.12:44
minutemnemotron: i did, but only out of hearsay12:44
minutemnemotron: not based on science12:44
CottonUndiesCommand line is: bustest addr=50010000 size=20000k12:45
Jopehmmh12:45
Jopewonder if I should buy another zz9000 :-D12:46
Jopefor testing like this12:46
JopeI have an l1 and l2 buster12:46
minuteJope: always a good idea12:46
JopeI thought you might like it12:46
minuteespecially now, as zz9000 production is currently underway12:46
Jopemy 3k currently has a cv64 in it12:46
minute;)12:46
Jopeand I'm sort of annoyed by how shit it is in comparison to the zz9k in the 4000 at home12:46
minute(we will need to wait till aug/sep for MYIR to ship us modules though)12:47
Jope1024x768 with wavy lines12:47
CottonUndiesJope According to Sysspeed the A3060/CV64 kicks my ZZ9000 in some of the graphics tests. I really don't know why as the ZZ9000 was suppoed to be on par with a Picasso V I thought.... Note: I have a CV64, and can test with it if nessersary.12:48
Jopeis the a3060/cv64 served by p96 or cgx in that sysspeed test12:49
minuteCottonUndies: try this one. i couldn't test it myself yet, though: http://dump.mntmn.com/zz9000-firmware-1_11-noauto.zip12:49
JopeA3o6o/CV6412:51
JopeCVision:  8Bit  640 x  51212:51
JopeCONNER  CFP4207S  4.28GB142012:51
JopeDH1:scsi.device12:51
JopeCVision: 15Bit  640 x  51212:51
JopeCVision: 24Bit  640 x  51212:51
Jopelooks like CGX12:52
Jopecottonundies, the P96 monitor is called CyberVision. you can't do an apples to apples comparison unfortunately12:52
JopeCGX + os3.1 might well be faster than P96 with the same setup12:53
Jopeunfortunately due to ✨amiga drama✨ there will be no further CGX versions for m68k12:53
JopeI preferred it myself back then, it was faster and had draggable screens .-)12:54
mnemotronminute: ok, i got it now.12:55
minuteJope: P96 has draggable screens now, too ;)12:56
Jopeyes, finally :-)12:56
mnemotronminute: wouldn't it be good to update the zz9000 shop page? last update was Jan 13.12:57
minutemnemotron: oh, let me see12:59
minutemnemotron: done13:04
mnemotronwhoa. people will be screaming :)13:05
Jopeeek13:06
minutewell, i'm used to that13:07
minute:313:07
mnemotroni meant positive screaming :)13:07
minuteah!13:07
minutewell that's good then13:07
mnemotron"OMG, it's updated!!" :)13:07
minutewe tried to make the batch bigger so that we will have some stock for the first time, maybe13:07
JopeI couldn't probably handle selling stuff to people in the 2020s13:07
minutewe never managed to have stock because we always sold more than expected13:07
minute(and chip crisis etc pp)13:08
Jopesuch passionate13:09
minutemuch13:09
minutemany amigaaa13:09
mnemotronmay i asked how many zz9000 were sold over all? :)13:14
mnemotron-ed13:14
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minutemnemotron: approaching 1000 units13:28
minutedon't have exact count r/n13:28
mnemotronwow13:28
mnemotronpretty awesome13:28
minuteyeah it got much bigger than i ever expected13:28
minutein the beginning i didn't want to do it because i expected it to be a lot of stress13:29
minutebut greta pushed me to do it lol13:29
mnemotronwell, it IS a lot of stress, i guess ;)13:29
mnemotroni'm still getting the freezes in the noautoboot firmware from above, but i wasn't expecting that to change13:56
minuteaha. my bet is still on the IRQ stuff tbh13:58
Chain-Qisn't it possible, that just the IRQ ack doesn't get written to the card, because of some caching issue? (is it a 030? does mmulib suck? :P)14:05
mnemotronyes, i have a stock 3000d with 68030 (and installed mmulib)14:05
minuteChain-Q: interesting theory14:05
Chain-Qthere you go.14:05
minuteChain-Q: tbh quite realistic14:06
Chain-Qstick an exec.library/CacheClearE(&ackreg,sizeof(ackreg),CACRF_ClearD) where the interrupt is ACK'd, maybe.14:08
Chain-Q(pseudocode :P )14:08
Chain-Qand that should take care of it14:08
Chain-Qbtw, the P96 DDK has some example code for '030 special handling, that does cacheflush too, the details may be documented there14:10
Chain-Qalthough that might be only for reading... ?14:11
minuteChain-Q: nice!14:11
Chain-QI can't remember14:11
mnemotronwho? what? where? do i need to do this or minute? :)14:13
Chain-QCacheClearE is v37+ (2.0something?) But I doubt this is a problem.14:13
Chain-Qmnemotron: it's a driver change. you can do it too, because it's open source :P but probably minute (or someone with knowledge of the driver internals)14:13
mnemotronphew, heartbeat is slightly accelarating when the 3.5 year old is leaving the room with the 3000 euro macbook pro in his hands... :O14:14
minutei'm quickly hacking it in, but i need to know which header has CACRF_ClearD14:14
minutelol:14:14
mnemotronChain-Q: ok, i'm not having a devchain installed, anyway. and which driver!? :)14:14
minutemntmn@mntmn-i9:~/code/amiga-gcc$ rgrep CACRF_ClearD14:14
minutebuild/ahi/m68k-amigaos-ahi/Developer/Drivers/EMU10kx/emu10kx-interrupt.c:    CacheClearE( first, (ULONG) last - (ULONG) first, CACRF_ClearD );14:14
Chain-Qexecbase.h?14:14
minuteso even some ahi drivers do that14:14
minuteChain-Q: yep, thx14:15
Chain-Qmnemotron: all of it ;)14:15
mnemotronminute: so that is already in there?14:15
minutemnemotron: no, not yet14:15
mnemotronaaaah, AHI / emu10kx. got it14:16
+ CottonUndies (~CottonUnd@2405:6580:33c0:b400:f8a8:966f:42e1:fd9d)14:16
mnemotronsir underpants returns ;)14:16
Chain-Qminute: such approach (doing a reg write macro with cacheflush) would probably fix a lot of the '030 and "MMUlib enabling caching for no reason" issues. but it's a definite performance hit as well.14:16
mnemotronChain-Q: a slight perf hit would be okay for me then it fixes the constant freezes14:17
Jopewould it be better to have mmulib disable caching to the zz9000..14:17
minutemnemotron: completely untested http://dump.mntmn.com/ZZ9000Net.device.cclear14:18
minutemnemotron: (rename to ZZ9000Net.device)14:18
mnemotronthanks, that will take a minute14:18
mnemotronheh, minute14:19
CottonUndiesminute will give that firmware a try. Just FYI for over an hour I've been running "bustest addr=50010000 size=200000k, and FINALLY it passed the first test of readw. I'm giving up on it now I have no idea how much longer readl might take.... I'll try lower sizes with your firmware14:19
minutemnemotron: in case you're using ZZ9000AX/AHI, you will have to disable that for testing because it might also be in there14:19
mnemotronminute: no AX here14:19
mnemotronwaiting for next rev ;-)14:19
CottonUndies@Jope Interesting. I also for some reason have almost 50% of the chipmem test in the MEMORY subsection in comparison. I also have a A3000, suprised I'm so much lower. I understand this has nothing to do with the ZZ.....14:20
JopeCottonUndies, which cpu is your a3000 running14:21
CottonUndiesI have a LC060 on an adpater on my WarpEngine clocked at 80mhz. I am using in my SS newCMQ.14:22
Jopere: mmulib no cache, envarc:MMU-Configuration is the file and the contents are SetCacheMode from 0xstart size 0xsize cacheinhibit14:22
Jopestart and size you can see with showconfig or whatevr14:22
mnemotronis it okay to have the 3.2.1 "LoadModule DOWNGRADE" command in startup-sequence?14:22
Jopeif you don't move the cards around in the system, they should configure to the same place14:22
Jopemnemotron, it is14:22
JopeI guess potentially it would be enough to only set 0xsize to the zz9000 register size14:23
mnemotronafter that i have SetPatch and i just disabled MuFastROM14:23
mnemotronto be safe14:23
CottonUndiesJope Hahah, I no longer know if your talking to me or someone else RE:envarc MMU-Configuration14:26
Jopeit was directed towards mnemo14:26
mnemotronoh, i didn't catch that, either :D14:26
CottonUndieshaha, excellent14:26
Jopeapparently the mmu-configuration file needs a newline at the end, so ced users beware14:27
Jope(at least Thor's documentation mentions to push return)14:27
mnemotronminute: that new net.device would only help with problems when ethernet is in use? but i have freezes also when not using actively using zz-ethernet14:27
Jopecan't remember if ed did implied newlines or not :-)14:27
minutemnemotron: by not actively, is the driver loaded or not14:27
minutemnemotron: do you use roadshow?14:28
mnemotronno, miamidx14:28
CottonUndiesSince we are all here today it seems I wanted to ask/propose: IRC is very transient, and I have a lot of questions regarding performance tweaks and expectations, and IRC doesn't have any "memory" per say. So I'd like to hear from the group, which place is best to have an ongoing conversation, MNT Community, EAB, Amiga.org, somehwere else? It drive14:28
CottonUndiesme crazy to revisit topics time and time again.14:28
minutemnemotron: and miamidx is not auto started?14:28
mnemotronminute: not loaded. i only start miami / tcp manually when i need it14:28
minuteCottonUndies: MNT Community is the only other place that i check, but YMMV14:28
CottonUndiesThat comment is very valuable!!!14:29
minutemnemotron: ok, doh, then this is not the problem :|14:29
CottonUndiesI wonder if the other usual suspects also monitor that site much.14:29
CottonUndiesgdonner and such.14:29
JopeI only monitor irc and eab :-D14:29
CottonUndiesahhhh, our first deviant!14:29
Jopeand even irc is very hit and miss14:30
mnemotronminute: :(14:30
Jopesometimes I forget to attach my screen for days14:30
mnemotroni'm on irc, eab, facebook, discord ;)14:30
mnemotronand a1k14:30
minutei'm also on a1k sometimes14:30
Jopewish I knew more german so I'd have a better time on a1k14:30
Jopeend up skimming and understanding 50% :-D14:31
Jopeand no replies from me almost ever :-)14:31
mnemotronARGH! Software Failure on DIR in the amigashell14:31
mnemotron#8000000314:31
CottonUndiesmnemotron where are your getting your TCK from?14:34
mnemotronmy what?14:34
CottonUndiesTick14:35
mnemotroni never changed anything on the board14:35
mnemotronto my knowledge14:35
CottonUndies4000 or 3000?14:35
mnemotron3000/25D, no accel board and only the ZZ9000 otherwise14:36
mnemotronand a scsi2sd 614:36
CottonUndiesaftermarket powersupply, or stock?14:36
mnemotronstock14:36
mnemotronzz9000 at 58.7°C now14:37
mnemotroncase is open14:37
CottonUndiescant hurt to try changing J35014:38
mnemotronthat is probably below the floppy bay, right?14:38
CottonUndiesminute new bios gives same freeze result in iBrowse. Only the fully noauto anything BIOS seems not to freeze.14:38
CottonUndiesjust below the CIA just below the floppy header when looking at the motherboard from the front of the case.14:40
mnemotronquick search says default for J350 is 1-214:41
CottonUndiesCould be, but no harm trying the other considering the endless trouble you've already had.14:41
mnemotronah, found the jumper on a photo14:43
mnemotroni guess i will try that next week. i need to remove the complete board anyway to let a friend solder a CR2032 battery holder to it14:43
CottonUndiesopening a 3000 is a very painful experience. I feel for you.14:44
mnemotronit IS open, but i would need to remove the floppy assembly, which is the WORST part14:45
CottonUndiesAt the end of the day I think your old buster is probably your problem.14:45
mnemotronmaybe. i shot scroom a message on eab. let's see what he wants for an -1114:46
CottonUndiesminute what drives me mad with my system is that it really shouldn't be differently performing from yours. We both have a 3000 with a WarpEngine, and i think no other Zorro cards?14:52
mnemotronOh, answer from scroom already. he has a -09, but needs to check if he has an -1114:53
mnemotroni mean screemo14:53
CottonUndiesminute just to proove to myself I wasn't messing things up I went back to the noauto everything BIOS, and no freezes, as expected.14:54
Jopemnemotron, in the meanwhile I guess you could give the mmulib nocache idea a try?14:56
Jopeit's just a shot in the dark14:56
Jopebut who knows14:56
mnemotronJope: yes, i'm just clicking around on the amiga right now with the new zz9000net.device14:56
Jopeok14:56
mnemotronah, freeze in AmiFTP14:57
mnemotron*bzzzt*14:57
CottonUndiesCan you try the roadshow demo?14:57
Jopehehe14:58
Jopeone thing at a time :-D14:58
CottonUndiestrue, true14:58
Jopesuper messy wb install if there's three tcp/ip stacks on there 14:58
CottonUndiesI'm going for a walk. back in an hour.14:59
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mnemotroni don't think my freezes are related to ethernet15:05
mnemotronjust copied sample mmu-configuration from mmulib archive15:05
mnemotronFor 28014 5 SetCacheMode {base} {size} CacheInhibit15:07
mnemotronshould recognize the 256 megs15:07
mnemotroncrap. using "type" Program failed (error #80000003)"15:10
mnemotronhow can i see that mmulib is actually prohibiting the caching?15:11
Jopemuscan15:13
mnemotronthat checks out ok15:18
mnemotronhttps://i.imgur.com/2hdIDQ5.jpg15:19
mnemotroncard is at $5000000015:19
mnemotronhm, new mmulib from 2022-05-3015:21
mnemotronlemme update15:21
mnemotronhotplugging usb would be nice :P15:21
mnemotronthe mmulib installer is a bit crap :-/15:35
apolkosnik[m]A new version of P96 is out, it finally creates a version file15:37
apolkosnik[m]so mere mortals can tell what version is installed 15:38
mnemotronoh. i wonder if i can still download. my purchase was now over a year ago15:41
mnemotronyup. page says "expired"15:42
mnemotronhow can that shop page beeee soooo slooooow?15:43
mnemotronapolkosnik[m]: wait, v3.3.0 is still current, or not? i already have that15:43
apolkosnik[m]Minor update to P96 (v3.3.1): https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1549028&postcount=43415:45
mnemotronyeah, 3.3.1 - just found it at a1k15:45
mnemotronthanks15:45
Jopejens is trying to find a new shop engine :-D15:47
Jopeapparently the one there is is just total crap15:47
Jopethe db schema is pants or something so it's dog slow and difficult to add indexes15:48
pasikis he running it on an amiga? :)15:49
Jopeno iea15:49
Jopesomething led me to believe that the entire order history since forever is there in the db15:49
Jopenevertheless it's a bit surprising that it can be so unperformant on 2022 hardware15:49
mnemotronwell, queries and indexes run hand in hand. if one is crap, the other can't help15:50
Jopeyes15:50
Jopewho knows, could be that the shop engine does select * from every time and then sorts it out in code..15:50
mnemotronoh, the horror15:51
minuteyou can put memcached between db+shop (i guess it's php), that's how we did it in the early 2000s15:54
Jopeyeps..15:54
minute(nowadays i'm just using sqlite)15:54
Jopethe weird thing about sqlite is that it is actually sufficient for many things these days15:55
minutebecause then the OS will just take care of caching that little file ^^15:55
Jopewhat happened..15:55
minuteyes, because computers got faster and have more memory15:55
Jopeyes15:55
minuteand webdev people don't understand these things15:55
minuteoften15:55
Jopeeverything is funnily fast these days15:55
Jopethen you switch on the amiga..15:55
minutei had some problems with sqlite contention in the shop (which is based on rails) but fixed it with some config tweaks and WAL mode in sqlite15:56
minutei.e. lock contention15:57
minutethe day when AX was released...15:57
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trixsterhttps://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/p4fst9YS/IMG_3364.PNG16:11
trixsterCatching up on chat! @Jope I got lucky with this, bought on eBay of all places!16:11
CottonUndiesCan anyone be so kind to remind me how to drag the screen on the ZZ?16:14
Jopewowser16:14
CottonUndiesJope Do you have Syspeed results for your ZZ available?16:14
JopeCottonUndies, open several same depth, then drag16:14
CottonUndiesSpecifically the Graphics and Intuition?16:14
CottonUndiesJope Hmmm. Let me try again.16:15
Jopehave a screen that mirrors the wb size and depth for example16:15
Jopethat should definitely be draggable16:15
CottonUndiesI thought my iBrowse was, so thats why I'm going to check again.16:15
CottonUndiesJope Thanks, got dragging working, iBrowse was a different color depth than WB.16:21
minutethere is a proposal/API support for mixed depth dragging, but we did not implement it (yet)16:24
CottonUndiesRegarding the current dragging, I notice my WB colors go a little off when I do it. I had thought a recent ZZ software or P96 recitified that dual pallette offset or whatever its called?16:26
CottonUndieswait, now the problem is fixed... *sigh*16:27
CottonUndiesOk, now a real question. When running Syspeed - Graphics a lot of tests draw thick color bars that go vertical or horizontal on the screen. In 256 color this is fine, but as the bit depth does higher and higher I get pixel "tearing" on the bars, the worse is when its True Color. Is this expected behavior?16:29
minutenormal16:32
minutei think what you see is cache flushing16:32
CottonUndiesOk, thanks for confirming. While not a great picture, here is a screengrab of it happening.16:37
CottonUndieshttps://imgur.com/v8am0AO16:37
minuteyeah cache16:58
CottonUndiesInteresting, I can also get DOpus5 to crash as well, with the same guru  Error: 8000 000B Task: 000003C817:02
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+ gdonner (gdonner@c-98-253-93-116.hsd1.in.comcast.net)17:47
gdonnertrixster: [re: Rev 4 SuperDMAC] 8-O How on earth did you even find one of these? Dare I ask how much it sold for?17:49
gdonnerI wish someone in the Amiga community would reverse engineer it and create more--I think we're going to have to at some point17:49
gdonnerOn my A3000, both my Ramsey and Super DMAC are socketed, so would be ridiculously easy to replace17:50
gdonnerAre those types of chips even made anymore though (i.e. the "blank" versions?)17:53
gdonnerCottonUndies: I usually just check this IRC and two of the ZZ9000 A1K threads (general ZZ9000 and the new ZZ9000AX)17:55
gdonnerWish I knew why some of A1K's threads are publicly accessible without a login and others aren't17:56
gdonnergo figure17:57
gdonnerBut back to chips: seems like Analogic Computers in the UK is the last source for most of these chips, including the rev. 11 Super Buster18:00
gdonnerIMO, if Dave Haynie wants something to do while waiting for FPGAs to be available, he'd be the best guy to reverse engineer these chips...18:01
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mnemotrongdonner: yeah, i saw the analogic offer on ebay. THEY. ARE. IN. SANE.20:38
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gdonnermnemotron: Yeah, I'm glad I bought two of the Super Buster 11 chips back in 2018 when I was upgrading my A3000 and A4000. IIRC, prices then were still $70-80 U.S. per chip. But it's worth it for the best available bug fixes and performance.21:45
mnemotronoh, wow. The guy on EAB offers me a rev 9 buster he has for shipping. And he'll look for the 11 on the weekend.21:47
mnemotron:-O21:47
mnemotronthe 9 would still be an improvement, i guess21:48
gdonnerBetter than nothing, especially as you wait for a v1121:48
gdonnerThere's still a significant market for these chips, especially the newer Ramsey and Super DMACs21:48
gdonnersomeone who puts the work in should be able to profit nicely, I'd think21:48
mnemotronis a newer ramsey or dmac required for the v11 buster?21:49
gdonnerno21:49
mnemotronphew, good21:49
gdonnerit's the version combo that matters; I forget exactly what it is, but mine is the "ok" one (A3000)21:49
mnemotronit's SO complicated21:50
gdonnerI have an -02 Ramsey and the -02 Super DMAC21:50
gdonnerMy Super Buster in my A3000 used to be an -0721:51
gdonneryeah, it is, even when you read up on it, it can still be21:51
mnemotron-02 dmac and -04 ramsey i my 3000, according to a photo i took21:51
gdonner'scuse me: -04 Ramsey21:52
gdonneryeah, same as I have21:52
mnemotronso i have the same21:52
gdonnerit should run well with a super buster 11, or better with the 921:52
mnemotrongood to know21:52
gdonnerboth are socketed in your A3000, I take it?21:53
mnemotronall are socketed except 68030 and 6888221:53
gdonnersame here21:53
gdonnerhave you replaced the SCSI chip in your A3000?21:54
mnemotronnope21:55
gdonnerwould be worth doing if it's an older chip21:55
gdonnerthey're pretty cheap and easy to replace21:55
gdonnerit fixes a bunch of issues with SCSI operation21:55
mnemotroni only have the scsi2sd v6 connected21:56
mnemotronstill recommended?21:56
mnemotronhere's a pic of my board: https://i.imgur.com/jojGr42.jpg21:56
gdonneryes, I would definitely recommend it21:56
gdonneronly $15 if you're in the U.S.: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255538770442?hash=item3b7f4c320a:g:sRMAAOSwRIRigoGJ21:58
mnemotroni'm in germany21:58
gdonnerI also use the SCSI2SD v621:58
gdonnerah ok21:58
mnemotronthe WD is under the ribbon cable, right? below the scsi connector21:58
mnemotronoh, no, it's on the right on the photo21:58
mnemotronWD33C93A or something21:59
gdonneryes; it's on the other side of the super dmac chip21:59
mnemotronmine is rev -0421:59
gdonnerit's a good, solid upgrade that should improve SCSI reliability21:59
mnemotronit's even socketed. lemme look on our ebay22:00
gdonneryeah, I'd think someone in Germany should be selling them on eBay there22:00
gdonnerit's an easy to get chip22:00
gdonnereither Western Digital or AMD will work fine22:00
mnemotronheh. 5.12 eur from china22:01
gdonnerlol don't bother with that one22:03
mnemotronsold 126, allegedly22:03
gdonnerI always try to buy from local (non-China) 100% positive feedback sellers22:03
mnemotronhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/17275222258322:03
mnemotronvery good rating22:04
mnemotronhaha, 1 for 5.12 or 5 for 17.32. i could resell them22:05
mnemotronbought 122:07
gdonnerthe "proto" sounds a bit odd, but should still be an improvement, I'd think(?)22:13
mnemotroni think all of them have that22:14
mnemotronis there a tool on the amiga that can determine the version of the chip?22:15
gdonnerthere is for Ramsey, your CPU/FPU of course, and I think that's it..?22:15
gdonnerthe Rasmey one is: "22:16
gdonnerRamseyConfig 1.2 © SpeedGeek 2018"22:16
gdonnerlooks like it's due for an update--it crashes A4000s 8-O22:27
gdonnerhttp://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1549031&postcount=1122:27
mnemotronnot a problem for me ;)22:28
gdonneryeah :)22:28
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