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jbilander / sdbox

A parallel to sd-card project for the Amiga
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Plz help #13

Open AMD1980 opened 2 years ago

AMD1980 commented 2 years ago

I have a paralell to micro sd card box I can’t get it to work on my Amiga at all I do have a a590 attached so I have 2.5 of ram on my Amiga 500 I there anyone who can help me get this thing working I only have workbench 1.3 so a step by step guide would be very helpful to me if anyone can help

jbilander commented 2 years ago

Hi, is this an SDBox that you have built yourself or something you bought from someone?. The seller should give you support in that case. I'll help if this is an SDBox that you built yourself. How far have you come?. Have you followed all the instructions for installing it? Can you show a picture of the device?.

Troubleshooting, start by reading here: https://github.com/jbilander/sdbox/issues/2#issuecomment-766751175

AMD1980 commented 2 years ago

It’s a box that I got from Amigastore.eu I have drivers on disk all installs ok but when I try to mount the drive it crashes my system

AMD1980 commented 2 years ago

51F2A9D6-5C79-423A-8564-28FCA1BDF67C This the box I have. It came with a 32g micro sd pre-formatted with a 4g partition I have tried different partition sizes but no detection by my system at all I don’t have any kind of software to move files on my Amiga 500

jbilander commented 2 years ago

I would first try and test that your CIA-chips are working correctly. This you can do with the great Amiga Test Kit and verify CIA-timings. https://github.com/keirf/Amiga-Stuff/releases Do you have another Amiga you can try the sdbox in to rule out anything wrong with your machine. I mean if another machine crashes the same way then something is definitely wrong with the sdbox and you should return it to the seller.

AMD1980 commented 2 years ago

This is my system setup at the moment @.***

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Unfortunately I don’t have the means to create a Amiga test kit disk This is the the software error I get every time I try to double click on it @.***

kaml123 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I have a similar problem on a self-made sdbox. My setup A1200 with 68040 accelerator (Apollo 1240/40). I was able to connect logic analyzer on SPI pins: Screenshot from 2021-09-20 20-17-13 . It looks like the SCK signal is triggered too early. It is possible that Amiga sends extra pulses to the POUT pin. I checked parallel port and CIA timings with AmigaKit and everything is ok.

jbilander commented 2 years ago

@AMD1980 I cannot see any of your information posted but double-click you say. Try with typing the command in a shell. Double-clicking doesn't work under 1.3 unless you make a script https://github.com/jbilander/sdbox/issues/11#issuecomment-851345491. I don't know what version of KS/WB you are using.

@kaml123 Are you using the 0.4 sdbox firmware?. The latest by Niklas (https://github.com/niklasekstrom/amiga-par-to-spi-adapter) doesn't work with the Revision 1 of the SDBox. A V2 of the SDBox is in the works that will use the latest firmware...

kaml123 commented 2 years ago

@jbilander I use below files:

I don't know why POUT/CLK is so many times triggered. Each POUT/CLK triggers additional SPI transaction.

rchyla commented 2 years ago

Are you using the 0.4 sdbox firmware?. The latest by Niklas (https://github.com/niklasekstrom/amiga-par-to-spi-adapter) doesn't work with the Revision 1 of the SDBox. A V2 of the SDBox is in the works that will use the latest firmware...

Could you edit the page so it would me more clear of what to use where? I just happen to fight with REV 1 sdbox, because i used 0.4 FW and found out i used the wrong FW in this thread. Even in "release" there is no mention of this, nor in v0.4 readme file.

Cleaning up repo so all revisions are placed on different folders for. e.g. would help circumvent confusions and problems that doesn't exists. There are photos on main page of REV1, so i thought all files in this repo works on rev. , furthermore in Rev. 2 repo there is no FW, so i thought that one firmware works on all revisions.

Had a lot of problems because of this, resistor soldering, formatting cards with different filesystems, scratching head why have i block errors after copying few files or after removing files on windows.

Now i'm on V0.3 and it seems like it is working better, 16GB card that didn't work is now working, still getting read errors, but are more rare now.

v.04 should be moved to SD-BOX V2 repo.

jbilander commented 2 years ago

It's very simple.

With a PCB that says Rev 1 on it you'll have to use the v0.4 drivers and firmware (or older). With a PCB that says Rev 2 on it you'll have to use the v2.0 drivers and firmware.

In other words, the new driver and firmware is not backwards compatible with Rev 1.

rchyla commented 2 years ago

Sorry i understood it wrong (that 0.4 is not working with REV.1).