Thylacine USB card DIY

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crasbe said:
Hello genny_flick,

I am the developer of the Nova-Thylacine prototype, a new version of Thylacine USB card.
I have some Tips for improving the stability of the design: You should add an additional capacitor between +5V and GND; about 100µF. It's not necessary, but recommed.

Did you see the fixes from ACT homepage? You have to add a jumperwire, because _INT2 and _INT6 are swapped. (Well, _INT2 is not even necessary...)
Also there is a capacitor about 100nF missing at SL811HS.
I'm not sure about the fixes concering the quarz. I would recommend using a crystal-oscillator. (These big metal-guys in DIP-14)

After christmas I will do some measurement, because a friendly guy from a1k lend me his Thylacine. I just want to check some of my theories.

Greetings,
crasbe
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Hi Crasbe, thank you for your tips :)
Have you a page or some photos to show us?

Best regards,
Rino
 
Board is quite finished, last 2 VIAs to drill and to solder :)
After a double check with multimeter, I will try it in my A2000 reserved for experiments, to see if any fire or smoke will appear ;)

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VERY BIG NEWS :)

I have used my Frankenstein A4000/040/26.5MHz + ZorRAM 128Mb + PicassoII to make startup test of board.

No smoke&fire :)

See yourself:

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Now I must insert Cypress chip, Texas chip and install drivers to see what happen ;)

Rino
 
Long time ago i´ve tried my orig. thylacine in A2000 but it dint work :ninja:
i dont know why, but im suspecting those zorro slots without super buster
 
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Long time ago i´ve tried my orig. thylacine in A2000 but it dint work :ninja:
i dont know why, but im suspecting those zorro slots without super buster
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I have same problem on my A2000 rev4.4 but in rev6.2 it works.
 
Hi, board is fully working :)

I have installed Poseidon 4.4 and thylacine.device from site author's with no problem. I have test:

2 x keydrive (1Gb, 8Gb);
1 x usb mouse;
1 x usb mouse wireless with his hub (Microsoft);
1 x card reader 30 in 1;
1 x usb drive 500Gb;
1 x usb floppy (Poseidon find it but I haven't tried any floppy, yet)

Some photo:

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Thank you :)

I think this board is no too bad, difference is made by Poseidon. Now I can made many of these and if I reach a sufficient number of orders I can make industrial printed boards
 
Wow, really awesome job my friend, simply great!!! :thumbsup:
Have you tried to copy a large amount of data from a usb drive to your hard disk and back? Were there any errors?
What is the speed of an usb drive tested with sysinfo?
 
Tomorrow I will test transfer speed. Every device can have his specific settings, so a database can be updated. For example, in initial test with 8Gb keydrive, writing a big .lha archive (22Mb) result damaged, but you can set a value (like max transfer) to use small part at time. By default it was 2Mb (with errors), so I have changed to 64Kb and as result this big archive was error free (lha t ....). When you save changes, Poseidon remember this specific device and use saved config.

Rino
 
Congrats for your success :arms, and eager to see the benchmark results. :thumbsup:
 
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