LarryL - another Raven060 Adventure

[LarryL]

Ah, cool…
Now I understand things a bit better - always good
I have a WD90C31A laying around - next in line for a test

[LarryL]

I have a WD90C31A laying around - next in line for a test

my WD90C31A is not working well…
Strange artifacts while moving the mouse and color is fading after a few seconds - picture and colors are getting brighter over time and then saturated again. Happens in different resolutions, b/w and with 8bit colors
But it is fast
Maybe needs some rework on the electrolytic… back to the drawer, next year maybe…

[agranlund]

Now I have also tried Master + Slave IDE configuration and it works here too
Apparently I didn't have any old IDE CDROM laying around so it's off the auctions and see if there's any cheap finds to be had.

I found this Startech IDE to CF adapter which has both 44 and 40 pin connectors.
So I configured it as master, and connected it to the motherboard with the 44pin cable.
Then hooked up a second slave CF adapter to it with a 40pin cable and that seems to work fine.

Came with both 3.5" drive bay and PCI bracket mounting option. Pretty nice!

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[LarryL]

Cool
I think I am using the same CF Adapter.
But with the 40p connector

[bbisi]

I have the same startech adapter 40pin
On the second IDE 40pol I put the CD/DVD Writer as slave from LG
That's very good reading with extendos.prg driver in AUTO folder and the extendos folder in root.

Yesterday I want two cf-cards install on the raven side. I have to copy some things to install easymint.
I make it with one cfcard adapter on master and the other one as slave. The same with CD-ROM . But the Raven don't find any cf-card. Only with one cfcard it is running
Here is a picture of the adapter

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Then I use cfcard adapter with two slots to insert micro sd_cards
The same error. With two cards inserted the raven don't find any micro sd_card. With one sd_card it is running.
Here is a picture of the adapter

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[agranlund]

That dual sd -> cf adapter looked interesting but when I googled I found a lot of posts saying they only got it working with a single sd card and never two. To be fair all the complaints were on an iPod reddit don't know if it's known to work or not in a PC.


The dual cf scenario that worked for me was:

Startech (44pin) -> Motherboard
Startech (40pin) -> Cheap CF adapter

Startech adapter jumpered as master (which grounds CSEL pin CF)
Cheap adapter jumpered as slave (which leaves CSEL pin on CF floating)

Both adapters had "Kingston Canvas Focus 128GB" cards in them.


This was the cheaper adapter:

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It's worth knowing that some CF cards have bad True-IDE implementations, not supporting master/slave properly among other things.

IDE->CF adapters generally leave the CF CSEL pin floating to tell the card to be slave. This is fine and according to spec.

But I've heard some cards don't have internal pullups on their CSEL pin, which is required for True-IDE mode slave to work.
However, it is not required for PC-card mode(s) to work, nor is it for True-IDE master.
It's easy to imagine it could be an honest oversight when making a CF card, or as a way to save a tiny amount of money, if you just want to get cheap stuff out there.


From Vogons, on the same issue but on a PC:

"From my personal experience fighting this exact scenario, of trying to get a CF card to behave in master/slave config, it was 100% the cards I was trying at fault, not the adapters or cables. You have to get a card that *truly* supports master/slave, most industrial cards do."


and

"My thanks to everyone who tried to help me! It finally works now, turned out the problem was the cheap chinese CF card"

[Bugging]

Hi Folks,

Starting my Raven060 Adventure soon and like to document my built here

As written elsewhere, this will be one (out of 5) new Raven060 given birth in Germany.
OK, one set of PCBs will relocate pretty soon to Sweden and will be handled by @redpixel but 4 of them will be built during next weeks (or months) by me and some German fellows.

During last two months we were preparing, i.e. ordering components and PCBs - but now, finally, all seems to be ready and we can start.

The PCBs are all black (of course) and the Mainboard is pre-assembled with most of the SMD stuff by JLCPCB in China.
Only a few components they did not have on stock (and couldn’t order for some reason) like the 16245, the Max3245, the XR68M and the 24MHz OSC, we have to add manually. And all the THT stuff, of course.

Attached some first „unboxing“ pictures of the Mainboard, which just arrived yesterday (together with a big box of components from Mouser)

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I am pretty excited and looking forward to starting my build.

Cheers
Michael

Hi this looks like a interesting build I've just finished a Denise itx build and a GBA1000 are the PCB still available to buy

[LarryL]

Hi this looks like a interesting build I've just finished a Denise itx build and a GBA1000 are the PCB still available to buy

Hi
Yes - and it is still very exciting
PCBs are all built and gone, sorry