Hi,

As I still find people that doesn't fully understand what the fix does, I give you my experience here.
I got my A1 fixed 2 weeks ago by Amiga Center in France.

Since then, I can plug and unplug my USB peripherals as many time as I want without any detection problem (on all USB ports). So USB is working 100%.

It is known already but I'll say it again: the fix is done on both side of the motherboard. Some lines are routed differently (adding a wire and scratching a line) and some capacitors (I hope it's the right name) are moved.
No additional chip is added i.e. the mobo is not heavyly changed.

Edit:
This doesn't change anything about doing DMA. The IDE driver needs to do it and in OS4, it works !

Last edited by elwood on 26-Apr-2006 at 09:02 PM.
Last edited by elwood on 26-Apr-2006 at 08:56 PM.
Last edited by elwood on 26-Apr-2006 at 08:55 PM.

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@elwood

Hi, great report of your working hardfix here! Very interesting to hear

Unfortunately, my A1XE mobo is dead, especially when i tried to overclock it and messed with the voltage, which i shouldn't have done. Anyway, if it still was alive, i would have done the hardfix. In Norway, there is a man called Stefan Burstrôm who has specialisted himself into providing hardfix for the A1XE, so i could have got the fix and for better DMA-performance to the harddrive, a Sillicon Image controller like the Sii0680 i have, gives even faster and better performance, even that now your USB and Ethernet also are working 100% correctly..

In the meantime, i will order the MicroA1-C, which seems to be an already "fixed" AmigaOne with 100% working UDMA, Ethernet and USB, but being a sexy Mini-ITX motherboard with inbuilt graphic and sound chip I'm looking forward to that

@Helgis

You should be working as the PR man for Eyetech. Helgis Ballmer!

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Thank you so much for saying that, my dear friend That's very nice of you

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meeeeee toooooooooooo!!

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Gees, thank you so much for the nice words, boys and girls! I love you all! You are just great!

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You should SERIOUSLY become a marketing person. Lot's of excitement and big and nice words about stuff you know nothing about, you qualify 100%!

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I plugged my HD on the VIA internal IDE port and started Debian with the very first kernel 2.4.19 (the one that showed the best the DMA problem). I executed a md5sum on a 700MB file in a loop. I did the same on the same file, on 4 sessions. All checksum were the same so DMA is working 100%.

OK, now I am confused (which isn't hard).

I thought it was generally acknowledged that there was a cache coherency issue with the A1 and Linux? Are you saying this doesn't appear to be the case?? You _did_ have DMA enabled for your Linux install, correct?


Thanks

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Well, i DO know a lot of the MicroA1-C now and such stuffs, but yes i could have the potential to become a marketing leader or something. Would be cool!

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OK, now I am confused (which isn't hard).

He got the hardfix, my friend. That's why his USB, DMA/Ethernet are working 100% now on his A1XE mobo

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Well, i DO know a lot of the MicroA1-C now and such stuffs, but yes i could have the potential to become a marketing leader or something. Would be cool!

Just remember people, you heard it first here in AW!

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In Norway, there is a man called Stefan Burstrôm

He is not Norwegian, nor does he live here. He lives in Lund, Sweden. He did attend Amitron in april (not the fix for pegasos boards, the month).

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who has specialisted himself into providing hardfix for the A1XE

Afaik he "found" the fix. but I don´t think he´s waiting for people to send him their A1.

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You _did_ have DMA enabled for your Linux install

It was disable before I had the fix. I enabled it again to do this test.

I don't know about cache coherency but I know that what didn't work before (the md5sum loop test) works now.

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@Gopal

Ok, i got this thing about Stefan Burstrôm a bit wrong. I could assign you as my personal secretary to correct my "bugs"

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Quote:

I plugged my HD on the VIA internal IDE port and started Debian with the very first kernel 2.4.19 (the one that showed the best the DMA problem). I executed a md5sum on a 700MB file in a loop. I did the same on the same file, on 4 sessions. All checksum were the same so DMA is working 100%.

I've always heard that the DMA problem under Linux is due to the missing cache
coherency of the Articia chipset, I guess that's something that couldn't be
fixed with a external hardware fix. Have you copied again the same file before
issuing the md5 checksum?

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Not copied. I only did the md5sum on it. As it is read each time md5sum is running, if something was wrong, the checksum should be wrong, correct?

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the DMA problem under Linux is due to the missing cache of the Articia chipset

Well in this case, the OS4 drivers does it so the result is that it works so it's ok for me. The Debian driver doesn't do it? Fine, but personally I don't care.

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The cache coherency can be "fixed" with an external hardware fix, that's how it's done on the Peg1 and ?A1. Now, adding the ?A1 fix to an XE would be next to impossible, without going for an April-like chip-on-pcb solution, I guess.

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Not sure about this, but I guess that the bug would show up (file copy aborted or corrupted files) only when large files are being transferred between devices. Try copying the file from a partition to another, or better, from a CD to hard drive, and try the md5 check after every copy on the destination partition.

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