Raspberry PI PICO ATARI ST Hard Drive Emulator (WIP)

[exxos]

Clean in in the Windows aisle, Kobold to the rescue. :)

Do you happen to know where to download it from and I can give it a try?

[chronicthehedgehog]

Odd about the bombs. I had them early on but never since flashing the latest firmware. I'm pretty sure it's had a decent work out as well - 1-2 hours most days

My STE is stock, 2.06, 001 DMA. I ended up using an official raspi power supply but for no reason other than it was handy.

Kobold = :dualthumbup:

[exxos]

Odd about the bombs. I had them early on but never since flashing the latest firmware. I'm pretty sure it's had a decent work out as well - 1-2 hours most days

The classic problem of like "one crash every couple of hours" type problems. like I said earlier, this is all why the mandatory fixes was born because of issues like that and this board has none of those done yet. I think bombs has to be databus corruption or something along those lines rather than simple hard drive corruption type operations. I would assume anyway..

[exxos]

I downloaded it from here http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari ... 28184.html All in German which is not ideal.

The drive light flashed incredibly quick, then just seems to have got stuck :roll:

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As I am not familiar with this program I don't know what that equates to. The mouse still moves but there is no drive activity any more.

EDIT: Now I see its in the software section :roll:

[exxos]

Anyway, the defrag completed successfully.

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So I started deleting files again and got the bombs :roll:

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I think what I will do is connect up ultrasatan with the same SD card and see if the problem still happens or not next.

EDIT:

Yep Ultrasatan bombed out as well. So I will have to hunt out a fixed motherboard and try again, where I may not have one anymore as the pullups were mostly fitted on the booster which I can't use currently. But anyway, I haven't yet seen any write problems in my tests today anyway which was the main problem before.

[Darklord]

Hmm, dunno. I've got the English version and it works absolutely fantastic.

I do turn verification off though - it considerably slows down transfer times.

Have a go with these:

kob351e.zip

KOBOLD35.zip

Kobold35_Addendum.zip

HTH's. :)

[exxos]

Hmm, dunno. I've got the English version and it works absolutely fantastic.

:thanksyellow:

[exxos]

Trying this next. Its kinda gone onto diagnosing DMA issues on the STE again now :roll:

Anyway, The booster board isn't doing much other than providing the bus pullups for the CPU bus etc. So see if this makes any odds to the bombing out issues.

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[chronicthehedgehog]

This is probably nothing but I notice you've got your SD card in the second slot. I'm using both simultaneously without problems but have you tried it in the first?

[exxos]

This is probably nothing but I notice you've got your SD card in the second slot. I'm using both simultaneously without problems but have you tried it in the first?

I think I somehow killed the first slot, it stopped working which is why I moved to the second slot. But can't remember now if that was the production one or my test board I killed now. I can try it again on Monday.

I've filled up the SD card , well my 200MB partition anyway. It about half way though deleting all the files now. Problem is, random faults are very time consuming to diagnose as there isn't a easy quick way to make it fail.

EDIT:
I'll continue this stuff In another thread as it's not really relevant to the pico drive stuff anymore.