I looked at icomps website and they say nothing about Poseidon. I didn't see a support email just look at our wiki for support.

I am running the last addition of Poseidon 4.5.

So 109 people read it and nobody can help me or even offer suggestions?

I saw that Deneb's site hasn't been maintained and I know Chris Hodges has basically retired.

Story of Amiga

I have an A4000T/060 with a Deneb USB running Poseidon 4.5. I have been having issues with it crashing my system when backing up to smb NAS.

I have 4 different USB ethernet adapters:

Linksys USB200M AX88172 chipset:
Uses 250mW of 500mW power
Poseidon sees it as a CDC class but class under information sys "None".
This adapter works for a time until it errors 3 times and Poseidon shuts it down. Reasonably fast.
"Eth received failed: packet overflow(7)"
"Eth received failed: packet response timeout(6)"

To get it to work again, I unplug the USB and replug and hit retry and it copies just fine until the next time it errors out.
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Linksys USB200M V2 AX88772 chipset:
Uses 250mW of 500mW power
Poseidon sees it as a "Vendor" class but class under information sys "Vendor 255".

This adapter is very slow.

No errors from Poseidon.

Using "Sana-II Meter Tool 37.11" network monitoring program, It gets continuous "Bad Packet" errors which means "CRC" errors.
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Linksys USB300M AX88772 chipset:
Uses 250mW of 500mW power
Poseidon sees it as a "Vendor" class but class under information sys "Vendor 255".

This adapter is very slow.

No errors from Poseidon.

Using "Sana-II Meter Tool 37.11" network monitoring program, It gets continuous "Bad Packet" errors which means "CRC" errors.
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D-Link
Dub-E100 USB 2.0
Uses 450mW of 500mW power
AX88172 chipset: Poseidon sees it as a CDC class but class under information sys "None".
This adapter works most reliably and no Poseidon errors Reasonably fast.
On some large files I get:
"Eth received failed: NAK failure"

Using "Sana-II Meter Tool 37.11" network monitoring program, It gets 0 "Bad Packet" errors which means "CRC" errors.

Occasionally, it will stop working and I can either unplug/plug the adapter in or do a power cycle under Poseidon.
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So what I have noticed is that the AX88172 chipset works most reliably. Both AX88172 and AX88772 use the USBASIXETH driver.

Can anybody tell me how to change under the "Class" from "Vendor" to CDC Class? Or is that possible?

@Hans

I will volunteer to be a beta tester on my 5040 and Sam460LE!!!

@daveyw

Are there any plans on making it multi core?

@Magic

I purchased just a X5040 motherboard and memory from Amedia in May 2022 arriving in August 2022. I built the system myself and I have not had any weird issues with it.

I was also told that OS4.1 does not utilize the 4 cores of the 5040 processor. So it is basically a 5020 using only 2 cores.

This is probably something that you didn't want to hear. I feel sorry for the situation you are in. One thing Amedia kept hammering on me is that they would not stand by issues/conflicts I had becaue i did not purchase a complete system from them. Fortunely, I haven't had any issues yet with the x5040.

I have my new SAM460LE and in my opinion, the X5040 is a better performing machine. I haven't quite gotten all the bugs out of the Sam460LE.

I don't understand the politics why Amigakit or AEON are not selling the boards directly instead of going UK to France to USA. I have mentioned before that I have purchased orders from Amigakit and one took over a year to recieve and it was just common parts. They would not answer any of my emails or give me any updates during that time.

Amiga on the Lake told me that they cannot get any boards from Aeon. So either the boards are bad and selling refurbished boards or there is something up with the x5040. Amedia had to give me a special build of OS4.1 to make it work because the x5000 CD would not install without failing.

@arfcarl

You are talking about two different things the L2 length of the Frame and L3 the TCP /IP stack. The TCP/IP stack has to be 1500 or fragmentations has to be enabled throughout the path otherwise the packet will be dropped causing a lot of retransmissions. Since I have changed the Stack to 1500, it is working much better and quicker. According to Ranger, My L3 stack is 1500 and the HW is still 1518.

Conversely, on my x5040 in Ranger, both stack and hardware are at 1500.

@jabirulo

I changed INTERRUPTS=NO. Now, I can run Candi with about 27% CPU but on a reboot Candi doesn't fully load. For instance on the default Candi, on reboot the clouds appear but the Amiga Logo doesn't. I have to go into Prefs and say use the default or another Candi Option and then it will appear.


Is there a setting for Odyssey that I can change to stop it from pegging the CPU at 100% when loading pages. Here is a weird thing. On my x5040, I can load ebay.com and log in no problem. However when I try it on the SAM460, I can type in my username but I cannot "Continue" or log in with another way such as Google.

One thing I noticed is that when scrolling through a website, The CPU varies sometimes pegging at 100%.

I can login and use the following sites:

amazon.com
amigaonthelake.com
amiga.org
amigakit
aminet.net
amigans.net
https://amigaos4gaming.wordpress.com/
gmail.com
hyperion-entertainment.com
os4depot.net
pagestream.org

Cannot use: Except eBay, I cannot use any of the following or media sites on x5040 either:
ebay.com - I can search but not log in
webmail
youtube.com
rumble.com

If it would work for Rumble, Youtube, and other media sites, I would totally use my Amigas as my sole computer.

NOTE: I went into SYS:Devs/NetInterfaces/ppc460ex_eth and added
mtu=1500. In Ranger I saw that the MTU for TCP stack and HW were both 1518 and any packet over 1500 needs to be fragmented. So I made RoadShow MTU to 1500. It is loading faster and not causing the CPU to be pegged constantly. My thoughts is there is something nonstandard in the TCP/IP stack that strict websites do not like.

@Spectre660

Good to know. I will check this out when I get a moment.

Update: It was not in the Kicklayout file:

MODULE Kickstart/timer.device.kmod
MODULE Kickstart/PCIGraphics.card
MODULE Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip
MODULE Kickstart/RadeonHD.chip
MODULE Kickstart/3dfxVoodoo.chip
MODULE Kickstart/3DLabsPermedia2.chip
MODULE Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip

It is now:

MODULE Kickstart/timer.device.kmod
MODULE Kickstart/PCIGraphics.card
MODULE Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip
MODULE Kickstart/RadeonHD.chip
MODULE Kickstart/RadeonRX.chip
MODULE Kickstart/3dfxVoodoo.chip
MODULE Kickstart/3DLabsPermedia2.chip
MODULE Kickstart/siliconmotion502.chip

But it sucks if you cannot see Uboot during the bootup process.

@PixelHi

I have a Biostar Radeon RX550 and I cannot get it to work on the SAM460LE. I also am running Enhancer 2.2. I purchased 2.1 and it was upgradedto 2.2. Did I maybe need 1.5? It is stable now with my RadeonHD 280x.

UBoot does not recognize the RX550 at all. It is suppose to with the correct Enhancer driver.

One thing is that it seems Odyssey especially will peg the CPU at 100% and copying files from partition to partion or even to the SD card. I have the Sil3114 xfer set to GGGG. I have also tried 0000 which is suppose to be auto sense.

It cannot run Candi. Candi pegs the CPU at 100% and the the mouse lags.

The Rx550 works fine in my x5040 but I cant figure out what Warp driver will make the miniGL working for my Boing ball screen saver. Is it on AmiStore or do I have to go through Amigakit?

UPDATE: I purchased NOVABridge on Amistore and that enabled Warp3 and miniGL on my x5040 now. $57 US seems pricey for a driver!

I would say comparing it to my XE, The LE is a little faster but stable. I could not run Candi on the XE either and Odyessy was taxing. My X5040 seems to handle it all but Odyessy does tax the CPU too but not peg it.

Ibrowse 2.5.8 is quick and doesn't tax the CPU. Ibrowse needs a 3.0 version of a nice modern light browser.

@PixelHi

I cannot get my Biostar RX550 to work at all in the SAM460LE but it works fine in my X5040.

I was having weirdness with my graphics. If you read above, I would pulldown the little arrow on Odyssey, it would immediately freeze. When I used SysMon, the CPU would peg at 100%. I could not install Amistore because it would freeze immediately. Ztools wouldn't even find the GPX even though Ranger saw it I started from scratch again and used the CD and then installed Enhancer 2.1 and it. At that time, I was able to install Amistore and then able to open update and update the system and updater to update enhancer. It was then it started acting properly. However, my RX550 still does not display Uboot or Amiga4.1 screen.

The card that works is a Radeon R9 280 Sapphire.

It has been very stable now.

Maybe my X5000 files got mixed with the SAM460? Are Enhancers specific? I used the disk that i got in my AAA package suppose to be for the 1222 but I don't see anything that says 1222 specific.

@sacc-dude

My issues were mostly bad install SD from ACUBE and SIL3112.

Others, I think this board is possessed. After 4 days and starting from scratch 3 times, I finally got it stable and usable.

I am ready to bypass the HD and controller and go solely with an SD card if it acts up again.

One issue I have now is Odyssey when loading a website, Ibrowse, amigans, amiga.org, it slams the CPU at 100% for a minute or 2 and then drops.
Ibrowse 2.58 does not do this.

ACUBE,

What is the prefered Video Card? Since I have it stable now I have not tried my Biostar RX550. I am using the Radeon R9 280.

@Spectre660

It will not recognize my E-EON Amigaone keyboard either

I have started from scratch. I think something is hosed in my system.

A word of CAUTION: The Sil3114 documentation found in the System drive says the following about formatting your HD:

Make sure to create your SFS partition this way:
- 500 buffers default is 600
- blocksize set to 512 default is 1024
- maxtransfer set to 7FFFFFFF default is 7FFFFFFF
- mask set to FFFFFFFE default is FFFFFFFE

Another thing I noticed is how to get the max resolution above 1024 x 768. It is on one of the last pages of the Install GUI that asks what is your max resolution.

Here is a very weird thing. After updating to Enhancer 2.1, the system no longer sees my R9 280 card as a Radeon 7900 but as an Radeon RX (unregistered). This seems to be causing MUI conflicts as the "arrow" pulldown on Odyssey and Ibrowse will lock up the machine.

If I removed the RadeonRX.chip and RadeonRX.chip.debug in Kickstart and only have the RadeonHD.chip and RadeonHD.chip.debug, it still says my card is an RadeonRX (unregistered).

When I copy the original RadeonHD.chip and RadeonHD.debug back from the install CD, it reads my board correctly as a Radeon 7900 and MUI pulldowns work just fine.

I have everything up and running except I cannot get my RX550 to work. It works in my x5040 but not in the SAM460. I have installed Enhancer 2.1 and still nothing. Do I need 2.2 or is there a driver I need to download from Amistore?

Maybe kill 2 birds with one stone. On my X5040 with the Radeon R9 280 card, I had to get the warp drivers to make MiniGL to work. I could not see the Boing Ball screen saver.

I was told that the RX550 driver worked out of the box on the miniGL but it does not in my X5040. What driver will I need for that when I get it working in my SAM460 or is it the same RadeonHD/RX driver?

@Spectre660

I first used the same PNY 500Gig SSD in my x5040 with onboard SATA. I have noticed it will hiccup every now and then with a checksum. I just click retry and it is ok.

I saw a thread on Hyperion from a guy that had the same issues as me with the 3114. He could never get port 1 to work. He has the CD on port 0 and HD on port 2 which is what the docs say to do but it seems for some reason mine the uboot won't see port 2 and 3 correctly but OS4.1 will. The only issue with that is I cannot boot from a CD but I can access the CD in OS4.1.

https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?t=2424

Currently, I have PNY 500Gig SSD on Port 0, CD port 2 and Seagate conventional 500Gig HD on port 3. I have been copying between them without issue.

Ok. I think I am finally there. Here were my issues:

1. Sil3112 card bad or incompatible causing HD checksum errors.
2. Sil3114 does not play well period and mine does not behave like the instructions say. It is suppose to be port 0 and port 2 for only 2 sata devices. Uboot would not recognize port 2 but OS4.1 would. For some reason only port 0 recognizes and the HD will boot from. In Uboot I had CD in port 0 and HD in port 2, then uboot would recognize both but once kickstart loaded, I got the purple screen with the boing ball saying insert OS.

3. ACUBE sent me a bad OS4.1 install on their SD card. Once I got the "checksum" and 3114 issue figured out, I was able to install from the CD OS4.1 without issue.

4. I don't know why you prefer the Sil3114? It seems very Mickey Mouse how the driver works. Unless, you can tell me what ports you have plugged in and how Uboot is configured because on mine the Docs are wrong.
For instance the docs say for sii3114ide_conf it goes ports 0123 (master0, slave0, master1, slave1) but mine goes ports 0213.

I don't know if it is a crap shoot of what 3114 card you get from China. I am thinking of buying a new one to see.

I finally got it to boot off the PNY SSD drive.

5. I was able to fix my x86_emu with nvgetvar and nvsetvar after I figured out how it worked and how to list uboot. For some reason it took both values of x86_emu 0 and 2. They were both in Uboot. Once I got rid of the x86_emu=0, my uboot screen came back.

6. Acube needs more documentation. The manual is very sparse. I still haven't figured out how to get the HD LED to work.

7. I have not tested the audio as of yet.

@m3x

I typed nvsetvar x86_emu 2 and rebooted. I still no uboot ACUBE screen. It booted into OS4.1. I did a nvgetvar x86_emu and it returned a value of 2.

Other suggestions?

@m3x

Nope. This is all I get with a blinking cursor at the bottom but hitting <enter>, esc, break, nothing happens. Do I need a specific setting besides
115200
8,n,1
no flow?

U-Boot 2015.b (Dec 23 2022 - 13:11:28)

CPU: AMCC PowerPC 460EX Rev. B at 1140 MHz (PLB=228 OPB=114 EBC=114)
No Security/Kasumi support
Bootstrap Option H - Boot ROM Location I2C (Addr 0x52)
Internal PCI arbiter enabled
32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache
Board: Sam460, PCIe 4x + PCIe 1x
I2C: ready
DRAM: ddr2_boost disabled due previous failure
2 GiB (ECC not enabled, 456 MHz, CL4)
PCI: Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
00 04 1095 3114 0104 00
PCIE0: successfully set as root-complex
02 00 1102 0012 0403 ff
PCIE1: successfully set as root-complex
04 00 1002 6798 0300 ff
Net: ppc_4xx_eth0
removing ddr2_boost env var
FPGA: Revision 03 (2010-10-07)
SM502: not found
PERMD2:not found
VGA: 1
VESA: OK