TF4060 Beta Program

[donix]

Removing the motherboard fastRAM did not improve on the situation unfortunately. It still crashes with the same error.

[terriblefire]

Removing the motherboard fastRAM did not improve on the situation unfortunately. It still crashes with the same error.

Ok. its simply impossible for me to support all the hardware variations possible so i would recommend contacting chucky and returning the card. There will be no issues with this.

[donix]

Removing the motherboard fastRAM did not improve on the situation unfortunately. It still crashes with the same error.

Ok. its simply impossible for me to support all the hardware variations possible so i would recommend contacting chucky and returning the card. There will be no issues with this.

I find that position completely reasonable and as I mentioned, the hardware combination I have cooked up for myself is quite a bit over the top and I really had no huge hopes of getting it to work in the first place and I absolutely do not expect anyone to support it. I wouldn't. :)

Having said that, if there is any further diagnostic information that can be gleaned from my particular issue that may or may not be of use in improving the TF4060 I am happy to try and collect it.

I do have a Zorro RTG card hopefully incoming in December and with that I will have a less esoteric and irritable rig that hopefully agrees better with the TF4060 so no need to return anything.

[terriblefire]

Ok. its simply impossible for me to support all the hardware variations possible so i would recommend contacting chucky and returning the card. There will be no issues with this.

I find that position completely reasonable and as I mentioned, the hardware combination I have cooked up for myself is quite a bit over the top and I really had no huge hopes of getting it to work in the first place and I absolutely do not expect anyone to support it. I wouldn't. :)

Having said that, if there is any further diagnostic information that can be gleaned from my particular issue that may or may not be of use in improving the TF4060 I am happy to try and collect it.

I do have a Zorro RTG card hopefully incoming in December and with that I will have a less esoteric and irritable rig that hopefully agrees better with the TF4060 so no need to return anything.

I've tested the mediator and firebird pci cards. I would need to actually have the same board as you to dig in and look at whats going on. I have some ideas but really cant do anything without one.

[Oliver_A]

Steve,

any news of planned updates (Chip-Ram and memory / bus performance)?

If you need a helping hand, I can offer this to you, I would even be willing to sign an NDA just to make you feel comfortable that your design wont get into the hands of counterfeit producers.

The TF4060 has the potential of becoming, by far, the best 68060 accelerator produced for the A3000/4000, it just needs some "nudges" here and there to make that diamond really shine. ;-)

Thanks and BR,

Oliver

[HomeLate]

I received my card today from Chucky (thanks again) so I'm joining the TF4060 beta club.

My setup:
- Amiga 4000D rev D, recapped and with original PSU (also recapped
- ZZ9000
- X-Surf in Z3 mode
- Buddha IDE with two CF-cards
- CD-ROM and Zip-drive connected to mainboard IDE
- KS 3.2.2.1
- Buster 11

The TF4060 works great with this setup. I'm waiting on a heatsink/fan combo to run the 68060 (rev 6) at a higher speed.

I also have a Re4091 and that's were the trouble starts. It has the latest firmware and I'm using a BlueSCSI V2 with a 32Gb Samsung SD-Card. The Re4091 and the hard drive image is initially found in HDTools. I can partition (with the correct MASK) and format the image. I tried different sizes, from 512Mb to 4Gb. Once install is finished, I reboot and I'm stuck with a black screen and a solid amber HDD activity light. I tried a warm and cold boot several times, it ends up with a black screen and a solid amber light.

I'm not sure what firmware is installed on the TF4060 but I guess the latest was installed by Chucky. I ordered RPi Zero to check the firmware.

That's it for now. I'm not aware of BlueSCSI V2/Re4091 issues but I might get a ZuluSCSI in the future.

[terriblefire]

The FW can be found by typing cpuspeed with no arguments

[HomeLate]

I received the ZuluSCSI yesterday and was able to partition and install Workbench 3.2 without issues, using the same unpartitioned image I used with the BlueSCSI.

It failed to cold boot twice but that was solved with a warm reset.

[saft6luck]

Also late to the party. Took me some time to find this thread in a random reply from chucky.

I have 2 TF4060 mostly working at 50MHz in an A4000T or A4000 with A4091 + mainboard NCR.

Is there an up to date list of the firmware?

[saft6luck]

Thanks for finding the issue.
My expectation is that Option #3 will not work, because Ramsey occupies a 64MB address window which will tespond to DMA requests from ZIII cards.

I don‘t think there is no nice solution to this other than setting the DMA Mask.

On the other hand, I personally think there wouldn‘t be any kind of drawbacks if the card shipped with just 128MB of Ram.

By default, Ramsey covers 16MB but 64MB (etc.) hacks will use more.

@terriblefire As there are perfectly working solutions (A4000T, A4000 w/o Z3 DMA cards, A3000x), I would offer a Jumper or SW solution (maybe with 1x reboot?) to disable the upper 128MB for these cases.
A new HW with fixed drill holes for the stands could introduce the Jumper to do this trick.

I have a Deneb. Are tests still open here?