Furia Amiga 600 real world experience questions

[sharpied79]

well I went with a Furia in the end. It's at home waiting for me. I'll give it a go either over the weekend or next week depending on time.

I did consider the A630 which is clearly the better card but I couldn't justify the double cost of it for the amount of use it'll get!

I checked that the furia has the latest firmware on it before buying and I am prepared to have to change my ancient CF Card for an SD card and having to try different SD cards until I find a working one, i'm OK with that.

I'll update or start a new thread with how I get on and will do some gameplay comparisons with Frontier both with and without the Furia, which is really all I want an accelerator for. Not really interested in how long I can make the red line in sysinfo go

How did you get on with the Furia?

I'm having nothing but trouble with mine.

 

[uniquefreak]

I have a Furia for sale if you haven't spotted it yet/looking down the Amiga Sales thread a few pages or search Furia. I had it in my personal machine before upgrading to a Manticore. It's been great, no issues. I ran it with 3.2 and both an SD Card and CF Card as boot drives. I have and use cable-less SD and CF card to IDE adapters (I have some spare if you need them too). As the usual 5cm IDE cable that a lot of folk use to connect such adapters, introduces voltage and buffer underruns leading to storage cards not being recognised, or getting corrupted easily. Any questions feel free to ask or DM. - EDIT: Ignore I see you've bought one. Best of luck, it's a great card

 

[HomeLate]

How did you get on with the Furia?

I'm having nothing but trouble with mine.

What issues do you have with the Furia?

 

[sharpied79]

The usual, just random crashes (guru), freezing/lockups, etc.

 

[uniquefreak]

The usual, just random crashes (guru), freezing/lockups, etc.

Are you running any PCMCIA devices? I believe under 3.0 Kickstart, you can run the full 9.5MB Fast Ram and still use the PCMCIA port. Unlike other Kickstarts, where you are forced to put the Furia into PCMCIA friendly mode, which knocks the fast ram down to 4MB. You should still do this on 3.0, however, I believe 3.0 doesn't check the relevant memory address space, instead it just randomly crashes/gurus.

 

[sharpied79]

Are you running any PCMCIA devices? I believe under 3.0 Kickstart, you can run the full 9.5MB Fast Ram and still use the PCMCIA port. Unlike other Kickstarts, where you are forced to put the Furia into PCMCIA friendly mode, which knocks the fast ram down to 4MB. You should still do this on 3.0, however, I believe 3.0 doesn't check the relevant memory address space, instead it just randomly crashes/gurus.

No and I have Kickstart 3.1