Well, work has been so busy that I have barely had time to do much on my projects, but I have now done enough that I might park them till Xmas (I have auditors in for a few weeks and so much to do....)
Clockport expander project
As per earlier posts this did not go well, despite help from Chris at Amigakit. The stuff ups and magic smoke were obviously all my own doing before his help. Anyway, I seem to have fried one clockport expander (Rev C), so much so that when fitted the amiga wont boot and makes odd noises - so scrub that.
The temp sensor and RTC combined has also been damaged as the bit that reads the ambient temparature gives silly figures, but the RTC and external temp probe still work OK. - I could live with that as that what I really wanted anyway.
I had such a mare getting the slightly larger Custom Rom chips into the riser that came with the expander that I next ordered a RevH expander from elsewhere, that connected to Gayle rather than the ROMS.
I have tried this in both my checkmated Amiga and my new a1200 - I cannot get the rapid road or freeway cards to be picked up through it though - having tried multiple ports (Does some configurationj need to be changed?). Both cards work directly from the motherboard on my new amiga. I had issues with the rapid road on the checkmate motherboard and am concerned I have done something bad to that, with all the messing around. The RTC/Temp sensor works directly on that motherboard though. I will try the RR again later this week. If that works I may just go back to that and forget the RC/Temp sensor for the minute. If not, then I have likley damaged something on the motherboard. Removing that from the checkmate case given everything else I have plugged in is something I am really not looking forwards to.
TF1260 CF IDE activity light
I could have done with a win on this one, and with some help again from Rob Cranley, I gave it a go. I got a spare LED board from Steve @ Checkmate (Cheers), worked out where I was going to cut the traces so I could use the PC pins to drive half the activity LED, did that, checked it all for continuity, then soldered two wires on the CF adapter as per the pics on exxos forum, again, checked for continuity to make sure I wasnt shorting bewteen the pins due to bad soldering, put a resister (33 Ohm) in line, tested it with the multimeter and got the LED to light up.
Tried it on the a1200 - nothing.
It may be the CF adapter, dunno.
New A1200.
Well, it looks like there is some green stuff on the IDE pins, but it all works fine and I have been using it to more easily test the above projects, but will need to send it off to get cleaned up and recapped soon.
I may get one of those Omniport things so that I can easily access the USB ports and so its ready for an Indy Mk 3 in future.
So this project is OK for the moment.
Not feeling as though I am winning currently.
Clockport expander project
As per earlier posts this did not go well, despite help from Chris at Amigakit. The stuff ups and magic smoke were obviously all my own doing before his help. Anyway, I seem to have fried one clockport expander (Rev C), so much so that when fitted the amiga wont boot and makes odd noises - so scrub that.
The temp sensor and RTC combined has also been damaged as the bit that reads the ambient temparature gives silly figures, but the RTC and external temp probe still work OK. - I could live with that as that what I really wanted anyway.
I had such a mare getting the slightly larger Custom Rom chips into the riser that came with the expander that I next ordered a RevH expander from elsewhere, that connected to Gayle rather than the ROMS.
I have tried this in both my checkmated Amiga and my new a1200 - I cannot get the rapid road or freeway cards to be picked up through it though - having tried multiple ports (Does some configurationj need to be changed?). Both cards work directly from the motherboard on my new amiga. I had issues with the rapid road on the checkmate motherboard and am concerned I have done something bad to that, with all the messing around. The RTC/Temp sensor works directly on that motherboard though. I will try the RR again later this week. If that works I may just go back to that and forget the RC/Temp sensor for the minute. If not, then I have likley damaged something on the motherboard. Removing that from the checkmate case given everything else I have plugged in is something I am really not looking forwards to.
TF1260 CF IDE activity light
I could have done with a win on this one, and with some help again from Rob Cranley, I gave it a go. I got a spare LED board from Steve @ Checkmate (Cheers), worked out where I was going to cut the traces so I could use the PC pins to drive half the activity LED, did that, checked it all for continuity, then soldered two wires on the CF adapter as per the pics on exxos forum, again, checked for continuity to make sure I wasnt shorting bewteen the pins due to bad soldering, put a resister (33 Ohm) in line, tested it with the multimeter and got the LED to light up.
Tried it on the a1200 - nothing.
It may be the CF adapter, dunno.
New A1200.
Well, it looks like there is some green stuff on the IDE pins, but it all works fine and I have been using it to more easily test the above projects, but will need to send it off to get cleaned up and recapped soon.
I may get one of those Omniport things so that I can easily access the USB ports and so its ready for an Indy Mk 3 in future.
So this project is OK for the moment.
Not feeling as though I am winning currently.
