@SimplePPC

Just tried formatting the 2GB disk partition (how I test it) and it got to 20% and then froze solid, as I expected. This was with nothing at all connected to the Highway.

Can I debug this? Use the debug kernel? And a serial port ... or...?

@mike

You need to allocate memory from $80000000 to $FF7FFFFF.

The command should be something like:

addmem START $80000000 TO $FF7FFFFF

though I can't remember if you need the dollar signs. Apparently you need to run it from the startup-sequence before SetPatch, but to test it just boot with no startup-sequence and try it from there (obviously making sure that you put addmem in your path, or that you called it explicitly from your sys:tools directory or wherever you put it)

I can't remember which 'Addmem' program I used - there are two on Aminet. I assumed the former as it's newer... either way the readmes should help you work it out.

If it works then typing avail will give you the full amount (the numbers above are for 128MB RAM)

For the record, I tried installing Poseidon v3.8 this morning.

The keyboard still doesn't detect some combinations of keypresses, so for instance Shift+Backspace does a single backspace.
The mouse works fine.

...

But it crashes the system just like the OS 4 mative driver does!

This should tell the developers something, though! I'm sure it didn't crash with the version of Poseidon I was using before (v1.2) but I could be mistaken.

Rebooting with no HighwayUSB in the KickLayout and not running Poseidon, all seemed stable in the short tests I could do with it (but which usually break it)

@mboehmer

Quote:

So I'd still need Poseidon? Which of course would still need to patch input.device....

so basically Deneb should be considered unsupported for keyboard/mouse drivers (which is what I need it for) until there's a native OS4 driver....?

@mboehmer

That's what I reckon - the interrupts. It's exactly the same as I got using a Bt8x8 card on my A1.

Is there any updatable firmware on the Highway that could be causing this? Could I be using old drivers somehow? More than one version of the Highway hardware?

If I can help any to fix it I will - I need my USB card for my keyboard and mouse! It's completely reproducible on my machine.. but I don't know how to officially report the problems or how to go about helping to fix it....

All I've heard from people so far is a couple of people saying "works fine here"... which of course isn't much help to me!

@mboehmer

No offence intended, believe me! But because both E3B and Elbox have kinda of abstract names and do the same things (although I seem to recall E3B being rather better at delivering) there's going to be some confusion!

So if I get a Deneb are you saying it'll work straight off with OS 4? Don't suppose there's any upgrade path from a Highway? :)

@Jurassicc

Poseidon doesn't work right, because you can't patch the input.device (which is now in ROM and changed rather).

It'll run, but when it finds the keyboard, the keypresses never auto-repeat (makes life tricky) and the mouse isn't detected at all.

The Highway and Poseidon both run perfectly on my OS 3.9 installation.

@SimplePPC

Tried with and without other hardware. Just standard AGA and the Highway crashed it.

The only way to make it stable is to remove the highwayusb driver or the card itself.

Very annoying as my A4000 keyboard has some dodgy keys so I need my trusty Wireless keyboard!

I might try a different PSU just in case... but I tried with no extra hard disks and the like and no difference. Plus it's always a freeze, never a reboot as you'd expect if it were power related.

Very frustrating and means I can't really use OS 4 on my 4000 properly.

@SimplePPC

How thoroughly did you test it?

Can you try doing a lot of writing to hard disks, as that's when things go kablooie on mine?

Formatting a disk will crash every time (that's a long format, 2Gig disk) unless I disable the Highway, in which case it works perfectly.
Doesn't matter what device it is (on-board IDE, UW SCSI, whatever filesystem)....

I've not got anything connected to the serial device... I wouldn't expect anything out of it as I'm not running a debug kernel or anything. Unless you know differently?

Thanks for your input!

@Framiga

Thanks - E3B/Elbox... easily confused. :)

Poseidon's not good enough for me though - Poseidon works perfectly with my Highway... but Poseidon relies on patching the input.device for keyboard/mouse - which doesn't work on 4.0.

Hence I need native OS4 drivers.

Hi everybody,

Some of you may be aware that I can't get my Highway to work under AOS 4 without it freezing solid the machine whenever there's heavy disk access (even on completely unrelated devices)... so I'm looking at alternatives.

It seems the total number of devices available right now for me is 1 - the one I've got, which doesn't work right.

What about the forthcoming Elbox Deneb though? Is this or will this be supported? Even under USB 1.1 conditions it'll allow me to use my USB keyboard/mouse which is what I really need.

I can't think of anything else to try - I've tried Poseidon (doesn't work because you can't patch input.device which is necessary for the mouse/keyboard, it seems), tried ANAIIS (worth a try!), but still no joy!

@whose

But if that's the case why does it only hang the machine in OS 4? Under 3.9 it works perfectly - same as it always has....

... yet disabling it in OS 4 (commenting out the HighwayUSB kmod in the kicklayout-A4000 file) means OS 4 is stable.

Is there more than one version of the Highway?

@ssolie

I looked...

It's not entirely clear.

I think what it's trying to say is that trying to run a PCI USB card is like trying to hitch ride with a Vogon. I.e. Forget it. Is that correct?

So basically given the Highway doesn't work right, and there's no PCI solution, we're kinda stuck without USB in OS4.

Surely some people are using USB with an A4000/OS4 combo? Anybody?

Hi everybody...

My A4000 is still very unstable with the Highway USB card drivers loaded. Very annoying. So I'm thinking, what about a PCI card? I have a Prometheus with spare slots, after all!

So - the main question:

Are ANY USB chipsets supported with the Prometheus under OS 4? This would allow me to remove my Highway and use a PCI card instead (and would also let me use my Highway in my A1500!)

Given the fact that the Highway seems to break my OS4 A4000, I was thinking of trying Poseidon. How can I disable Highway or all USB support in OS 4 so I can just use Poseidon like I do under OS 3.9?

Is it possible?

Thanks for any help!

Luckily PCI cards are keyed so that they don't fry with the wrong voltage, like AGP slots.

And it's not fried, it's working fine. :)

Hi everybody....

Anyone who's been reading the OS 4 installation thread on Amigaworld.net will know that I've been suffering instability on classic OS 4.

I think I've diagnosed the problem now as being my Highway, which has always worked perfectly under OS 3.9. If I take the card out I can format a 2Gig partition repeatedly (done it about 8 times) but it never succeeds with the Highway in, even if nothing's connected to it. It usually hangs the machine rock solid after about 10% of a 2 gig partition, but sometimes it'll go up to about 60%.

Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else been using a Highway for rigorous testing? Can I do anything about it? Use of my original keyboard mouse isn't much of an option, I'd rather have the instability but I'd prefer no problems at all!

Help? :)

@vk4akp

Simple economies of scale....

SATA cards are made in quantities of many many thousands. How many people need a Catweasel Mk IV? Hence production costs are much higher.

AU $140 is actually a very good price given the work that's gone into it and how few are in each production run.

@abalaban

Motivated, yes. spare time, no. Very little. However, I do have an xmas break coming up, so if you want to give me write access feel free and I'll see if I can do anything to help!

@tonyw

Yup, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to find the version number, so it must be loading the module correctly.