TF1260 Testing FW

[PainDictator]

Think we covered this. try putting a blank cf card in the internal IDE slot and see if that helps.

Will do and report back. Have to find a second CF IDE adapter in the basement ..

Any hints on the chipmem performance? MIght as well be a CPU/CACHE configuration thing, but I have not idea what to look for. Chipmem performance is also the same, if I boot without startup-sequence and do the testing directly.

Edit: It turns out, CPU STOREBUFFER brings the chipram write to 7MB/s. For reads, I think the reduced performance is still a known issue.

[terriblefire]

Think we covered this. try putting a blank cf card in the internal IDE slot and see if that helps.

Will do and report back. Have to find a second CF IDE adapter in the basement ..

Any hints on the chipmem performance? MIght as well be a CPU/CACHE configuration thing, but I have not idea what to look for. Chipmem performance is also the same, if I boot without startup-sequence and do the testing directly.

Go to lowres, 4 colour and try.

[PainDictator]

Go to lowres, 4 colour and try.

See below. Using STOREBUFFER, writes are now ok. ChipRAM reads are actually now consitently slightly slower than with the Alpha (always got 4.5 MB/s there).

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[terriblefire]

Go to lowres, 4 colour and try.

See below. Using STOREBUFFER, writes are now ok. ChipRAM reads are actually now consitently slightly slower than with the Alpha (always got 4.5 MB/s there).


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You're only 0.1Mb/s slower though. Your performance is as expected. IMHO anything thats reading from Chipmem when fastram is installed is either the floppy driver or doing it wrong.

[PainDictator]

You're only 0.1Mb/s slower though. Your performance is as expected. IMHO anything thats reading from Chipmem when fastram is installed is either the floppy driver or doing it wrong.

Fully agree that performance is now as expected. Thanks for your efforts!

I only pointed at the 0,1 mb/s because I thought any change might be interesting for you. The difference seems to be real. I measured several times in a rather controlled Setting and can always reproduce the value.

[PainDictator]

Think we covered this. try putting a blank cf card in the internal IDE slot and see if that helps.

Helps

[DaMi]

Hi, I flashed the new firmware yesterday and it seems that almost everything is fine, I don't see any difference from the previous version 1000. I can't run SysInfo 4.4 and neither WhichAmiga 1.3.3 (immediately after starting amiga freezes). WhichAmiga 1.3.25 runs fine though. But I have experienced the same problems on version 1000. When I switch to my B1260, both SysInfo and WhichAmiga work.

I have basic setup (no mediator etc.), my amiga has a 1D4 board and I am using the new Workbench 3.2.2.1 and kickstart 3.2.2 (burned eprom). The CPU version I have is 6. I boot from internal IDE.

If I come across any other oddities, I'll let you know. Thanks a lot for the new firmware .

[terriblefire]

Hi, I flashed the new firmware yesterday and it seems that almost everything is fine, I don't see any difference from the previous version 1000. I can't run SysInfo 4.4 and neither WhichAmiga 1.3.3 (immediately after starting amiga freezes). WhichAmiga 1.3.25 runs fine though. But I have experienced the same problems on version 1000. When I switch to my B1260, both SysInfo and WhichAmiga work.

I have basic setup (no mediator etc.), my amiga has a 1D4 board and I am using the new Workbench 3.2.2.1 and kickstart 3.2.2 (burned eprom). The CPU version I have is 6. I boot from internal IDE.

If I come across any other oddities, I'll let you know. Thanks a lot for the new firmware .

Annoyingly WhichAmiga has been nuked from AmiNET. Not sure why.

[DaMi]

It's hard to say. But WhichAmiga is still available from achive.org. What do you think about the SysInfo?

[terriblefire]

It's hard to say. But WhichAmiga is still available from achive.org. What do you think about the SysInfo?

Those are much older versions of WhichAmiga than the one you say you have the issue with.

Can I just check you have MMULib installed? Without it you wont get anywhere and you cannot use the B1260 060 library with a TF.