My custom A1200D PPC...
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Ok time for some updates... 
Today I tried something scary... cause I thought I could make it! :wooha:
FINALLY.............. I MADE IT!!!
I actually Dremmel'ed PicoPSU's connector and also Ian's ATX adaptor's connector ~0,5cm in height!!! That created 2 messy connectors that after a LONG time of knife cleaning & soothing, became just fine! So now that the PicoPSU is 0,5cm shorter...
I CAN NOW INSTALL my spare slot-in slim DVD-RW!!! W00h00!!!
Apart from that, I decided to put one simple IDE2CF adapter with an 4GB CF on the primary IDE Master just for OS4.0 since it's not compatible with BPPC's SCSI. The DVD-RW will be the slave
Damn, does that means I need to also fit an 4way buffered ide controller inside or I can do it with a 3-way IDE cable?
Amiga 1200's IDE bus support 2 channels on it's own (meaning an idefix is used for the 2nd port to activate) ?
Anyway, that's all for now
Some pictures of Ian's adapter + PicoPSU BEFORE and AFTER bellow
Today I tried something scary... cause I thought I could make it! :wooha:
FINALLY.............. I MADE IT!!!
I actually Dremmel'ed PicoPSU's connector and also Ian's ATX adaptor's connector ~0,5cm in height!!! That created 2 messy connectors that after a LONG time of knife cleaning & soothing, became just fine! So now that the PicoPSU is 0,5cm shorter...
I CAN NOW INSTALL my spare slot-in slim DVD-RW!!! W00h00!!!
Apart from that, I decided to put one simple IDE2CF adapter with an 4GB CF on the primary IDE Master just for OS4.0 since it's not compatible with BPPC's SCSI. The DVD-RW will be the slave
Damn, does that means I need to also fit an 4way buffered ide controller inside or I can do it with a 3-way IDE cable?
Amiga 1200's IDE bus support 2 channels on it's own (meaning an idefix is used for the 2nd port to activate) ?
Anyway, that's all for now
Some pictures of Ian's adapter + PicoPSU BEFORE and AFTER bellow
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I think I can stuff an 4-Device Buffered IDE Interface inside as well
Since I never had a card like that (always had the FastATA mkIII or plain IDE) does it has a difference in speed from the plain IDE? Also you need the IDEfix (or IDEmax) to be able to use the DVD-RW in OS 3.9 right?
I thought about 2nd ACard for the DVD-RW but it DEFINITELY won't fit in there!
Since I never had a card like that (always had the FastATA mkIII or plain IDE) does it has a difference in speed from the plain IDE? Also you need the IDEfix (or IDEmax) to be able to use the DVD-RW in OS 3.9 right?
I thought about 2nd ACard for the DVD-RW but it DEFINITELY won't fit in there!
Right, the Express board will make transfer speeds more than 50% faster than plain IDE, but I'm not sure if it works with OS4.
It needs the IDEMAX software (the "hidden" name of IDEfix97) and the Express hardware will act as a dongle for the software.
It needs the IDEMAX software (the "hidden" name of IDEfix97) and the Express hardware will act as a dongle for the software.
The Express board is not longer available mate. The standard 4way buffered is the only there is (that supports OS4.0 - as express does also). Tbh I don't really care much since I only want it for my DVD-RW support and the CF that will hold OS4.0. (Not that I'm gonna use OS4.0 seriously ever... but for the fun of it
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wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This thread passed me by.... What a fantastic bit of hackery!
Well done your have some serious hacking talent!
ps. Your BPPC is identical to mine!
This thread passed me by.... What a fantastic bit of hackery!
Well done your have some serious hacking talent!
ps. Your BPPC is identical to mine!
Cheers guys. I'm making my progress slow but steady
Atm I have also putted DJBase's Clockport Expander that works (I wonder if I could also manage to fit my Delfina in there but will be very hard).
So far I have the following HD's/partition's setup that work like a charm:
BPPC's SCSI --> ACard
CF2IDE with 16GB Transcend 133x CF
- Partition1: DH0 --> OS3.9 (950MB - SFS)
- Partition2: DH1 --> MorphOS PuP 1.4.5 (950MB - SFS)
- Partition3: DH2 --> Work (13GB - SFS)
A1200's IDE --> 4way buffered adapter (soon to be Idefix Express)
All connections only in Primary and none in Secondary. Using 44pin 3way cable (to not have extra wires for powering devices)
PRIMARY MASTER: CF2IDE with 4GB Transcend 133x 4GB CF (might change to bigger soon)
- Partition1: SDH0 --> OS4.0 (950MB - FFS - Since OS4.0 doesn't recognize BPPC SCSI)
- Partition2: SDH1 --> Boot-Linux (50MB - FFS - for future Boot to Linux from Early Startup)
- Partition3: Linux --> Debian Sarge 3.1 APUS (2GB - Ext3)
- Partition4: Swap --> Debian Sarge 3.1 APUS (500MB - Swap)
PRIMARY SLAVE: Slim DVD-RW drive (with JAE to 44pin IDE adapter)
Everything works just fine and of course OS3.9, OS4.0, MOS can access the DVD-RW along with Linux in same chain.
OMG how the hell am I gonna stuff all these inside? It's a lot of challenge I know but I hope I will succeed. More soon to come
I'm just so happy the PicoPSU hasn't failed me with all that power hungry beast
@ddni
My friend, we not only have the same BPPC, but we had the same weak PPC, PG upgraded both of us to 060 from 040 and Stanislaw upgraded both of us from 160 to 330. Both of our BPPC's have SCSI and both use 1 crystal! Hahahah damn coincidence!!! I think I'd should call ya bro from now on! lol
Atm I have also putted DJBase's Clockport Expander that works (I wonder if I could also manage to fit my Delfina in there but will be very hard).
So far I have the following HD's/partition's setup that work like a charm:
BPPC's SCSI --> ACard
CF2IDE with 16GB Transcend 133x CF
- Partition1: DH0 --> OS3.9 (950MB - SFS)
- Partition2: DH1 --> MorphOS PuP 1.4.5 (950MB - SFS)
- Partition3: DH2 --> Work (13GB - SFS)
A1200's IDE --> 4way buffered adapter (soon to be Idefix Express)
All connections only in Primary and none in Secondary. Using 44pin 3way cable (to not have extra wires for powering devices)
PRIMARY MASTER: CF2IDE with 4GB Transcend 133x 4GB CF (might change to bigger soon)
- Partition1: SDH0 --> OS4.0 (950MB - FFS - Since OS4.0 doesn't recognize BPPC SCSI)
- Partition2: SDH1 --> Boot-Linux (50MB - FFS - for future Boot to Linux from Early Startup)
- Partition3: Linux --> Debian Sarge 3.1 APUS (2GB - Ext3)
- Partition4: Swap --> Debian Sarge 3.1 APUS (500MB - Swap)
PRIMARY SLAVE: Slim DVD-RW drive (with JAE to 44pin IDE adapter)
Everything works just fine and of course OS3.9, OS4.0, MOS can access the DVD-RW along with Linux in same chain.
OMG how the hell am I gonna stuff all these inside? It's a lot of challenge I know but I hope I will succeed. More soon to come
I'm just so happy the PicoPSU hasn't failed me with all that power hungry beast
@ddni
My friend, we not only have the same BPPC, but we had the same weak PPC, PG upgraded both of us to 060 from 040 and Stanislaw upgraded both of us from 160 to 330. Both of our BPPC's have SCSI and both use 1 crystal! Hahahah damn coincidence!!! I think I'd should call ya bro from now on! lol
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At last I managed to also install Gnome in Debian Sarge PPC (had some issues with some packages these days... and Sarge being an old dist, makes repositories searching more troubled)...
Just some pics with the effort (sorry for the quality though).
Just some pics with the effort (sorry for the quality though).
Very impressive Mario!
How does it run? Is it a useable environment?
Hmmm, I wouldn't say that is such an usable environment. Classic text Debian works pretty quick. Gnome is a lot heavy @ 1280x1024 but you can work with some delay. Mozilla works okey once it loads. Couldn't install Firefox 1.5 since the repos were removed. Apart from that it's pretty impressive to work X on an Amiga and maybe in the future I could replace Gnome with XFCE for means of better speed. Also a smaller resolution would be better. Last, would be a kernel replacement for better Permedia utilization. We'll see... It was just a successful test that required a lot of effort.
BlackBerry9000/5.0.0.411 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/188
Nah. I'm using the stock 2.4.18 that is pretty stable. I'm thinking of using the last stable 2.4.20 that is incompatible with CSPPC's UWSCSI (since I don't care for that) but it has better support for Permedia and some other hardware. Fact is that I had issues when I setup the linux partitions on the CF tha was on the ACard that's why I tried the IDE way that worked like a charm although slow. I will try it also with Idefix Express that is coming next week in case it's better.
BlackBerry9000/5.0.0.411 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/188
Afaik, it's always best to configure the Kernal to your specific hardware to get the best performance possible. Linux at this level also needs a Swap file & relies heavily on it, again affecting performance.
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