Yeah, I'd recommend getting an X5000 if you can afford it.

Counterpoint - get a new SAM instead of the A1222+.

Amistore is telling me I have £3.27 balance, but there doesn't seem to be any way for me to spend this - if I try and make a purchase, I am prompted to add the full price of the item.

I have been stymied by the low-profile bracket on my graphics card!

Anyone know where you can get high-profile brackets from?

@MartinW

Thanks, I am interested in trying Morphos but my priority is getting Linux back which I lost when I upgraded to an RX card.

I am wary about using a 4x to 16x ribbon extender because it would mean, as all my case slots line up with pci/e connectors, it would be jammed up against an unoccupied motherboard pci connecter. Hence my plan to get a simple connector adapter and use that. I can see Skateman seems to not have this problem but I'm not sure my case will be as accommodating.

It's amazing that the latest Sam is the only motherboard to provide a practical solution to this problem.

@Hypex

I have an existing RX560 plugged into the 16x slot. I can't plug a 16 lane graphics card into anything other than a 16 x slot. Poor choice of words on my part, I guess I should say "adapter" rather than "extender".

@AmigaSociety

Thanks TJ, yes that was very helpful. Looks like I don't need power. My case doesn't have any right angle slots so my plan is to get a simple 1x to 16x slot adapter and plug into that.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006147522340.html

Hi all,

I have been thinking about fitting a second GFX card to my X5000 so I can use Linux and MOS without downgrading my current RX card. So I need a 2 (or possibly 4) x --> 16x PCIe.

However, I see some simply plug into the PCIe slot and the card plugs into them, while others use an external power.

Which would I need?

@daveyw

Actually, I think the latest version of NGF has been officially released with the A1222+, but I don't know if it is compatible with the X5000.

@slygon

3. Long time ago someone recommended OMC SSDs for Mac, because they manage trim themselves (no Amiga filesystem does this). Personally, I use a Samsung.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc

Took a look at them the other night and they aren't too expensive.

4. I got an updated UBOOT from AmigaKit last year, but Matthew was my vendor. Drop him a line, see if he can oblige.

5. If you can, try and get the updated version of NGF filesystem. It has not been officially released. I have emailed Tony but got no reply. It's not backwards compatible with the release version of NGF, so if you're rebuilding from scratch its ideal.

@Maijestro

X5000/20 with Sapphire RX560

StarBox Benchmark 1.0
Resolution: 1920 * 1080
Fullscreen
FPS: 404.41

@AmigaSociety

I recommend Night of the Zombies

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... /night_of_the_zombies.lha

It's a fun game, and its free.

@joerg

Well, PartitionWizard on my system doesn't run anymore. I get a message "This process terminated without replying to the Workbench startup message, this program is probably for CLI use only."

@MamePPCA1

As someone else said, this is really hard to diagnose and address remotely, and I think you will need to find someone in Europe who can help you in person.

One last thing you can try, Thomas Rapp's RDBRecov2. You can find it here.
https://thomas-rapp.hier-im-netz.de/download.html

I'm going to add alot of warnings here:

I have never used it
I don't know how to use it
It could irrevocably destroy your partitions

@dfstudiosQuote:

RAM disk will always show 100%, because it dynamically resizes to accomodate whatever is stored in it.

Quote:

You shouldn't really need a SWAP partition. AmigaOS can only address 2GB RAM, so you should only use a swap partition if you have less than 2 GB physical RAM. The modules available for most "modern" PPC Amigas (i.e., Sam, AEON machines) should be relatively cheap and plentiful to afford 2GB

BTW, just tested on my X5000, no problems copying a 1 GB file to RAM disk.

@ktadd

Kinda glad I'm not the only one who found configuring AllKeys a little confusing...

@Hypex

Well, my initial thought was that his recovery drive had SFS drivers but SFS not enabled in Kickstart. I have a recovery USB from AmigaKit and it is set out like this as well.

I was then perplexed when he said he had both SFS drivers and the module enabled in Kickstart, but SFS still not present after boot. I would suspect that a combination of uboot parameters (specifically os4_bootdevice) and the recovery drive boot priority might be causing problems.

He might need to copy the SFS driver from Enhancer onto the recovery drive.

@MamePPCA1

OK, that's very odd. You have SmartFileSystem in you Kickstart folder, and you have the module loading in Kicklayout, but it is not loading.

(Otherwise, when you enter "version SmartFileSystem full" it would return the version of SFS loaded into memory, as smf pointed out).

Can you please open a shell and enter the command
nvgetvar

Let's try and diagnose what your uboot envars are doing.

@dfstudios

Very nice, a real retro feel.

Glad you went for a black case. I put my X5000 in a white case. Looked great back in 2017, now horribly yellowed.

First check that your pendrive's Kickstart folder contains
SmartFileSystem
It probably does, but check first.

If it does, open Kickstart/kicklayout in Notepad.

Somewhere near the top should be a block of all the filesystems that are loaded during boot:

MODULE Kickstart/FastFileSystem
MODULE Kickstart/CDFileSystem
MODULE Kickstart/NGFileSystem

Add this line:

MODULE Kickstart/SmartFileSystem

underneath them. Save it and reboot from the pendrive.

Hopefully, when you now boot off the pendrive, it will load SFS and you will see your SFS boot partition. Then you can repeat the process to your DH0:Kickstart.

Depending upon your uboot variables, your Amiga might start to boot off the pendrive, and then switch to DH0:, which could cause problems. If that happens, we can look at your uboot variables.

@dfstudios

If you go to Updater and check the My Purchases tab there, do you see "Enhancer Software Release 2"?