Recent content by Morkath

No wonder you found no additional information yet, since the stuff is brand new. A Hungarian dude designed it last year with the help of a friend, who is assembling, testing and selling the kits. I'll buy mine directly from him next week (I know him in person). I'll ask him about the planned...

The IDE4 Zorro II cards are in production now: http://szergitata.blog.hu/2017/04/06/zorro_ii_ide4_kartya_teszt As you can see, it already comes with a built-in CF slot. I'll get my card next week, then I can write my own review. Until then, you can translate the linked page with Google. The...

Thank you! Still interested, sending PM.

Interested. Can you specify the shipping cost to Hungary?

Thanks for clearing that up. The setup works, but produces random Read / Write Block errors every once in a while. Strange thing is: if I press Retry, it can always read and write the specific block at the second try - no problem. All this with a single 500 MB FFS partition. The hard disk is in...

They are EPROMs, not OTPs, and I guess that was the case with all Golem Kupke cards for the A2000. I also suspect that both chips were programmed with a faulty programmer, because the chips themselves are working perfectly. After reprogramming them with the 3.9 image, autoboot capability started...

I have to report success! You were right. I burned the 3.9 EPROMs, and the card started working. It turned out I had to close the jumper to enable autoboot. Closing the jumper with the corrupt 3.8 ROMs installed caused the black screen symptom. After doing all this it immediately booted from...

Of course, I will dump the ROM images again and report back. In the meantime I tried booting with the jumper on: in that case, the A2000 refuses to boot, I only get a black screen. It is even impossible to get to the early startup menu when the jumper is on. Something really strange must be...

Your method (copying even+odd 3.9 ROMs to ROM folder) works. There is about 6 seconds of black screen, but then WinUAE proceeds to boot from the HDD and everything works perfectly. Unfortunately, the additional information about autoconfig data exceeds my level of knowledge. :) If I get it...

Following your advice I set up WinUAE using Golem SCSI II emulation with both my (merged) 3.8 ROM and the 3.9 ROM image. Both produce the same result: no autoboot, the HDD isn't visible after booting from floppy, and issuing "version scsi3.device" from CLI gives the object not found message...

Yes, it mounts normally without startup-sequence too, even with WB 1.3 boot floppies. I could create an 500MB FFS boot partition and an 3500MB PFS partition, both work flawlessly when booting from floppy. I installed the PFS3AIO driver to the RDB, and it works, because if I boot from a floppy...

Zetr0, Toni.Wilen: Thanks for your advice. In the end I chose the Golem card because the GVP card produced strange errors when loading its drivers manually. DMA vs PIO and transfer rate doesn't matter much here, because I just want to add a relatively big (x > 2GB) HDD to the A2000 with...

Ok, there is some real progress here. In the end it turned out the Golem card will be the best choice for my needs. (The most advanced one of the aforementioned bunch.) By creating a custom WB 3.1 Install disk with scsi3.device (the Golem's SCSI driver) and editing HDToolBox to use this driver...

GVP board received and working. Feedback left!

Kronusofchaos, salaxi54: Thank you for your input. The HDD is properly terminated. I tried both controllers (Kupke and GVP) with their own scsidev.device and scsi3.device drivers (respectively) to no avail. They just don't detect any hard drives attached to the card. I do have and EPROM...