My 'win' for the day :)

[Steve]

After playing around testing ASCI devices troubleshooting for hours every day I was getting a bit despondent.. but today I finally got to boot my H5 with Emutos (with a lot of help from @PhilC )

Next episode: will Steve ever remove the urine colour of his display out? Who knows, tune in later! Lol

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[Cosmic Puppet]

Nice! (not the colour )

[JezC]

@Steve Nice - I've previously been running EmuTOS (0.9) on my TF536 in my first H4...but when I tried to go up to EmuTOS 1.0 the floppy stopped working once it had been used to load EmuTOS... so I've gone back to v0.9 & exactly the same setup then works just fine.

Apparently I need to upgrade the firmware on my TF to get the IDE to work properly (and find a CF card that works) & I've not yet done the ACSI fixes on that board, so floppy is my only option for now.

Are you using a floppy or ACSI or the IDE on the TF? Would be interesting to know what people have working...

[Steve]

@Icky Nothing yet. I can't get floppies to work on my H5 and I plugged an Atari imaged CF into the TF and it doesn't detect it or anything either. Not sure what to do to be honest.

[exxos]

Next episode: will Steve ever remove the urine colour of his display out? Who knows, tune in later! Lol

Now you have a scope, easy to diagnose

[JezC]

@Icky Nothing yet. I can't get floppies to work on my H5 and I plugged an Atari imaged CF into the TF and it doesn't detect it or anything either. Not sure what to do to be honest.

Hi Steve,
Are the floppy issues with your H5 present with a vanilla 68k installed (i.e. in place of the TF536)?

My H4 is fine with floppies with a standard 68k (PLCC or DIL) & works OK with the TF536 & the older version of EmuTOS (I'll add a link to the topic which covers some of my findings about this last year...in case that is any help)...but with EmuTOS 1.0 booted from floppy, it loads & then fails to access the floppy drive once it has booted. Swap that version of EmuTOS for the older (0.912?) & it boots & the floppy is fine.

I'm using a Gotek with the H4 ATM so it's just down to which EmuTOS image I choose when booting to change this behaviour!

Until I manage to update the firmware on my TF536 (or finish my H5 or H4 #2) I guess I'll be stuck with the floppy images on my Gotek...

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 627#p50627

[Steve]

@JezC Ok cheers I'll try with TOS 2.06 tomorrow and see if the behavior changes.

[exxos]

I can't get floppy to work at all on my TF536 anymore. Its on my "to do list" to investigate why as others have similar problems as well. I have a small feeling its something to do with the alt-ram..

[JezC]

@Steve How are you intending to boot with TOS 2.06?

I'm wondering which board you have for the extra decoding for the 256k ROM images...I've got a custom 192k image of an older EmuTOS as a boot ROM to allow me to load EmuTOS from the auto folder...while I wait for the remaining bits to build my exxos IDE board(s) to provide the additional decoding.

Good luck with the testing!

@exxos Which version of EmuTOS are you using with the TF536? Or do you have the same problems with TOS 2.06 as well?

[exxos]

@exxos Which version of EmuTOS are you using with the TF536? Or do you have the same problems with TOS 2.06 as well?

Same problem with EMUTOS and TOS206.