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Yes bud longer boot time normal behaviour for 3.1.4, probably because there is no floppy drive on the A1200, this is a known bug on OS 3.1.4.

supaduper wrote: 19 May 2023 12:40 Yes bud longer boot time normal behaviour for 3.1.4, probably because there is no floppy drive on the A1200, this is a known bug on OS 3.1.4.

one thing i did see for a bit there was keyboard reset was ineffective sometimes. Might have a fix for that

Iteration 4...
I believe i've fixed the reset lockup issue + a couple of random other things.. really minor. I've tested this on 3.1.4 + ehide.

IT4 running nicely Here fella,on 3.1.4. and rock solid on 66mhz, 94, and even 100mhz, Noice work again matey :)

Flashed the 4th iteration...

Currently 80 Mhz on my Rev 5 with Quake Demo... :o

Update
80 Mhz on Rev 5 not stable - sometimes works without problems, sometimes immediate freeze :o
But up to 67 MHz everything stable as usual :D
Thanks.

tested now iteration 4
68060 rev 6
A1200 rev 1D.1

stable at 50Mhz and 94Mhz, but very stable it could stay at 94 Mhz for ever

Update1:
booting normal from floppy and from internal IDE(less than 20 second for a normal 3.2.1 Workbench with a lot of stuff in user-startup), ehide works normal (not tried booting from ehide but I don't expect problems) attached to it a CF card reader and installed OS39, boots without problems
Debian 3.1r8 works, NetBSD 9.3 works

100Mhz not always stable, but it does not depends on this firmware (Alpha 1000, Iteration 1, Iteration 3, Iteration 4 same result).
I don't understand why. I flashed the firmware Alpha 1000 time ago and my 68060 was stable for some days at 100Mhz, but one day started to be unstable.
I think I changed something in my Amiga configuration, but at the moment I don't know what
Could be alimentation? Some patch I'm using?

In any way thanks for the update.

Thanks. I will try Iteration 4 tomorrow and report, sorry just ran out of time today with other jobs.

Update - looking at this before Saturday's kids clubs start! I flashed Iteration 4. It does boot from TF IDE and Floppy, but takes over 1 minute (not timed it, I counted to 30 then walked away!).

I expect all the other Iterations worked, but I did not expect that long boot time. If I keyboard Reset, it still takes over 1min to boot.

Not sure why my 2B is doing this? I know it needs 'Right Mouse Button Fix' USB/PS2 adaptors to work.

Maybe I will swap ROMs with another of my 1200's and check that 3.2 + EHIDE gives normal boot times.

Higgy wrote: 19 May 2023 22:46 Thanks. I will try Iteration 4 tomorrow and report, sorry just ran out of time today with other jobs.

Update - looking at this before Saturday's kids clubs start! I flashed Iteration 4. It does boot from TF IDE and Floppy, but takes over 1 minute (not timed it, I counted to 30 then walked away!).

I expect all the other Iterations worked, but I did not expect that long boot time. If I keyboard Reset, it still takes over 1min to boot.

Not sure why my 2B is doing this? I know it needs 'Right Mouse Button Fix' USB/PS2 adaptors to work.

Maybe I will swap ROMs with another of my 1200's and check that 3.2 + EHIDE gives normal boot times.

The reason, is suspect, is just that now when it tried to access the missing A1200 drive it gets data that indicates the drive might be spinning up instead of random data that looked like the bus was terminated. The best way to fix this would be to either put a blank drive the A1200 mobo OR buy an IDE terminator.

About this Time to boot with OS 3.1.4, yes it can take up to a minute if you do not have a Floppy drive attached, so I Just put a floppy drive on my bare 1D4 mobo with IT4 firmware and now with floppy in place , it will boot 100% in under 25 seconds every time on the TF IDE, which is more than acceptable IMHO

I have always had a floppy attached :o :lol: !?! A Gotek.

I have now fitted the 3.2 + ehide v1.1 ROMs and boot is really long still
So I fitted a CF IDE with a blank CF to the internal IDE and it boots fine :D I will look at getting an IDE terminator.

Hopefully get to play with the speed settings later today.

Cheers for help and advice