folks,

does anyone have a USB2 PCI card installed in their amigaone or pegasos systems that work well with OS4.1u4? i'm specifically looking for one with a internal USB header so i can hook up the front USB ports on my case.

-- eliyahu

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@eliyahu

Yes, USB2 PCI card in my Pegasos, works flawlessly with OS4.x, I´m not at home at the moment. But I bought it here.

http://www.ggsdata.se/index-en.php?page=Datorer/amiga-keyboard-en.php

(Some years ago)

@eliyahu

http://www.amazon.de/Hama-USB-2-0-PCI-Karte-5fach/dp/B000EONX2Y/ref=pd_cp_computers_3

This is the one (VIA chipset) I use in my Pegasos II. Works with both OS'.

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@cha05e90

Unbelievable! That looks EXACTLY like my USB2 card that DOESN'T work!

What I mean is that USB1.x mode works perfectly fine but USB2 is broken in OS4.1. It doesn't work on the card. OS4.1 doesn't like it. If it detects my flash drives at all I get read errors and it can't mount them.

Mine has a VIA VT6202 chipset. What does your have? IIRC the VIA 6212 works. But how different can they be? I don't know what the hell is going on here.

@eliyahu

http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-2.0-pci-card-with-3-port-front-bay-33056

Also works fine in my XE/G4.

@thread

i ended up getting a startech PCIUSB7 card. it has a VIA6212L chipset and onboard hub, so you get a total of seven USB ports. it is available on newegg (link) for $18USD. i also recall someone on the support fora reporting it worked for them in their A1-XE.

i'll report back once i get it installed.

-- eliyahu

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@Hypex

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Mine has a VIA VT6202 chipset. What does your have? IIRC the VIA 6212 works. But how different can they be?

I don't know waht the exact difference is, but if the chip number is different you can't expect the driver to work. Even a trivial difference could break a driver...

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@Hypex

Yes, I had another VIA card which *looked* the same, but it wasn't. I bought this one 'cos it was recommend by another Pegasos II user at A1k.org and it worked with full USB 2.0 out of the box with both OS'. Is there any tool to see which chipset it might be? Ranger isn't a real help here (it only says VIA USB 2.0, Device 3104, Rev. 63)...

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@eliyahu

I have one in my A1-XE which is a fairly generic ST-Labs branded card. The card itself is *tiny*! It has an internal USB socket, but not a header so some soldering might be required, or something like a cardreader/hub would work either.

The chip is a VIA VT6212L which looks like it's a good one to look for. Having said that, I remember getting a very strange look one day when I tried to buy a PCI network card for my A1200 Mediator, and asked the computer shop guy what chipset was on it...

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@raumfahre

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http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-2.0-pci-card-with-3-port-front-bay-33056 Also works fine in my XE/G4.

That's also the one I have.
Works fine with OS4.1upd4.

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@eliyahu

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i ended up getting a startech PCIUSB7 card. it has a VIA6212L chipset and onboard hub, so you get a total of seven USB ports. it is available on newegg (link) for $18USD. i also recall someone on the support fora reporting it worked for them in their A1-XE.

What machine are you installing it into?

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i'll report back once i get it installed.

Please do!

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@Moxee

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What machine are you installing it into?

it will be going into a pegasos system.

-- eliyahu

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@Daedalus

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It has an internal USB socket, but not a header so some soldering might be required, or something like a cardreader/hub would work either.

I've noticed all the USB2 cards are like this, but it only makes sense on my X1000 USB3 case, so I don't know what is going on there. Guess PC people don't tend to replace their internal USB with a PCI card. Since even older PCs would have USB2 on the mobo.

But this should help with that:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=338

So these days you get strange looks for asking technical information and not a word of Amiga mentioned? Sheesh! These people are strange!

I don't know why it is an issue. For instance the Sii 0680 card I got has 0680 chipset on the box. Chipset info should be in a list if specifications.

Apart from that there can be good reasons. You may want a wireless PCI card but are avoiding the Atheros AR5007 chipset because it can be buggy on certain PCs, cause dropouts and if you have a laptop with that chipset built in be limited to only WEP. True stories!

@cha05e90

Well first I used Ranger. What I notice is that my card is a close relative of yours, Mine is a 0x3104 Rev: 0x65 (USB 2.0)!

Perhaps VIA updated something which would break OS4? In any case I took the PCI IDs and Googled them. Which lead me to this site with info on VIA:

http://www.pcidatabase.com/search.php?device_search_str=via

I looked up my 0x3104 card and clicked the link for more VIA info. That's where I determined I had a VT6202 chipset but I don't even know if that's accurate.

@eliyahu

I have an USB pci card with vt6214L, but only i use USB derives because firewire for OS4, there are nothing i suppose.
It works well under OS 4.1.5, but sometimes The system is broken and i'm in doubt if it's cause of USB card or memory, because when i copy a file into harddisk doesn't freeze The system and The same file copying in RAM disk breaks The system.

Regards

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Bit late in the day. But I am using a Dynamix AOC-U2-6P card PCI USB2.0 6-port card in my A1-XE. Don't know why it's called a 6-port because it only has 5 USB ports - 4 external and 1 internal.

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@TrevorDick

Thanks for the info! I was just starting to think of looking for a usb2.0 card but had no idea what would work. If this card works in your A1-XE it should work in my A1-XE. Think I might give that card a try.

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The USB card I bought didn't have enough ports, so I bought an internal USB expander by NZXT.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1293/1/

I was able to hook up my 2 front USB ports and and an internal card reader with an extra USB port built in.

I have a pci usb 2.0 card in my peg2 that is supported by morph and os4. I'll report the card when I get to my studio.

@thread

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i ended up getting a startech PCIUSB7 card. it has a VIA6212L chipset and onboard hub, so you get a total of seven USB ports. it is available on newegg (link) for $18USD. i also recall someone on the support fora reporting it worked for them in their A1-XE. i'll report back once i get it installed.

i just realized i never updated this thread! the card quoted above works very well indeed in my pegasos2 system. it's got quite a few USB devices hanging off of it at any one moment and is also used to connect the ports built in to my silverstone case.

cheap, works, recommended. if you find another option, don't forget to add it to intuitionbase.

-- eliyahu

Last edited by eliyahu on 11-Sep-2012 at 12:59 AM.

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