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jbilander / sdbox

A parallel to sd-card project for the Amiga
GNU General Public License v3.0
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I need some help about the setup (disk, etc.) #19

Closed giobbino closed 1 year ago

giobbino commented 1 year ago

Hi all, I've a couple of Amiga 500 (one donated, one I got from a litter box -literally!- and fixed) but I have no skill/knowledge about Amiga (I'm most on 8-bit Commodore computers). One has the Kickstart 1.2 so I have to update it; the other has the KS 1.3 + WB 1.3.3 so this one should be compatible with SDbox.

I'm updating my post since I finally make the Lotharek drive working as DF0, but I can't make a working image with the needed files (it boots from the sdcard but then I can't copy it on a floppy using the physical drive DF1, it says the image I've built is someway corrupted.

Long story short : does anybody here has an image (.ADF or .HFE) of a bootable KS 1.3 with the needed files on it? I'm not planning to put the lotharek (or gotek) virtual drive inside the A500, since the FDD is working fine and I've tons of floppies here.

jbilander commented 1 year ago

Hi, yes I have an ADF-image of WB 1.3 with everything configured correctly. I would love to share it but WB (and KS) is not free software unfortunately. Is your SDBox a version 1 or version 2? The device driver (spisd.device) is different between the two.

giobbino commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for your answer! yes I understand; WB is freely available on the web though (and honestly it's abandoned software...). However I understand if you are not comfortable to share the disk. I've built the V.1 because I have everything at home (SD card reader and Arduino Nano). Since eventually I got my Lotharek FDD emulator working, I'm trying to make an image with the needed files, but it's giving me some error after the boot: I'm getting some "disk failure" and I don't know why. Maybe the .hfe images made by the HxCFloppyEmulator (dropping files inside) aren't ok?

jbilander commented 1 year ago

Hi, you would think it's abandonware but no Cloanto owns the rights and still sells both WB and Kickstarts in the Amiga Forever pack. Also Hyperion sells new WB/KS 3.2. Drop me an email and it's easier for me to help out: jorgen.bilander at gmail com

giobbino commented 1 year ago

Jorgen, thank you for your help. After I mounted sd0: and tried a DIR command, I get the "Could not get information for SD0: Error 115" as described in the https://github.com/jbilander/sdbox/issues/2 thread. I'm trying with different SD cards / FAT-FAT32 / partition sizes etc.

I have no clue from the LEDs... since I have no LED (yet) on my SDbox. I'm waiting for the transistor from Aliexpress (I didn't find them neither at the local store, nor on-line for a reasonable price here in Brazil). Actually my board has just the Nano and the SD card with the pullup resistor as described by Sukkopera.

At least, thank to you, I can focus on the board! :-)
Ah, I think I will also try to replace the 8520, just in case the installed one is bad (luckily I have a couple spare, here)

Will let you know later!

giobbino commented 1 year ago

Success! I'm opening a new thread (some kind of a tutorial) talking about my problems and doubts and how I solved.