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While using an STe, unfortunately when I try to write anything to the disk I get this error. GEMBench, Frontbench will all happily load at least.

H5 with tf536 doesn't seem to want to work with it...

DaveC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 12:00 While using an STe, unfortunately when I try to write anything to the disk I get this error. GEMBench, Frontbench will all happily load at least.

Can you post an image of your motherboard.

DaveC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 12:00 H5 with tf536 doesn't seem to want to work with it...

IIRC the TF536 only works with IDE ?, it's basically a unsupported branch.

I didn't have any issues with the H5, have you tried without the TF536 ?

@exxos I can confirm ACSI will not work with a TF536, same for Ultra satan etc

PhilC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 12:35 @exxos I can confirm ACSI will not work with a TF536, same for Ultra satan etc

Thanks.

Weird because my icd adscsi board and a piscsi worked fine with my tf536.

Anyway my motherboard is the same as this one https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/view ... 595#p17653
(My phone is now complaining I need to charge it before it'll take a photo)

DaveC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 12:58 Anyway my motherboard is the same as this one https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/view ... 595#p17653
(My phone is now complaining I need to charge it before it'll take a photo)

It's more to see exactly what chips you have in your board like the what CPU etc. So a stock image does not really help. If you have not got the HC CPU then you're going to have the classic DMA problems anyway.

It doesn't have a bad dma, I have another board that does. I can still test with an HC CPU.

DaveC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 13:10 It doesn't have a bad dma, I have another board that does. I can still test with an HC CPU.

I haven't specifically tested the "good DMA" yet. Did not really expect many people to even have one. So you may be better trying a -38 with a HC CPU initially.

DaveC wrote: 16 Jun 2023 12:00 While using an STe, unfortunately when I try to write anything to the disk I get this error. GEMBench, Frontbench will all happily load at least.

Oh wow. That's what I'm seeing with my independently-built one on my STE.

I've never had DMA issues before, but haven't done the DMA pull-ups and I think I've an original CPU in there. I assumed it was my shoddy handiwork, but thse look to be the same symptoms so perhaps I need to get the STFM working to test there too.

BW

I will bring back one of the production drives sunday and do more testing to make sure nothing has changed since the previous revision. The board I was working on I could copy files backwards and forwards all day without any problems.