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daveyw

Re: Which PCIe extender?

Posted on: 7/14 23:58 #61

Not too shy to talk

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

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

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Boabster

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 23:15 #62

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Just a small update.

I thought I try another approach to getting my files transferred over from my NAS to my A1222+ and vice-versa.

I enabled simple FTP access by enabling FTP services on my NAS using port 20 or 21.

I downloaded pFTP from OS4 depot and it worked.

I appreciate all the feedback follks, I am still learning how to use the A1222+.

Trying to get Netsurf working, it has 2x problems, it needs a guigfx.library and it seem to think its not connected to the internet?

However I will create a new thread for that rather than causing a divergent topic to the original topic of this thread.

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Boabster

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 20:29 #63

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@dfstudios

Thank you for your reply and I do hope you recover soon.

I have connected my A1222+ through an ethernet based wifi repeater.

Then its connects to my home broadband router wirelessly to allow my A1222+ connected to the internet.

Works fine with no issues so far.

My Synology NAS connects to my broaband router directly to its 1 of 4 ethernet ports.

All devices are auto DHCP.

I can access my NAS via Oddyssey web-browser fine.

Question:Do you recokon I should try SMB on a direct Ethernet connection to 2 of 4 ports on my broadband router instead?

BTW, I like the PowerReboot tool you have created, it really handy to save at the dock instead of having to go to the workbench menu.

Many thanks.

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dfstudios

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 8:34 #64

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@joerg

Yes, I've got it formatted using NGF/01.

Kind regards,

Francis

Amiga 1200 with Apollo IceDrake
Amiga 1222+ with RadeonRX 550

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joerg

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 6:04 #65

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@dfstudios
Quote:

I'm starting to think I'll need to change my backup strategy. For now I've just stuck a USB stick in the back of the A1222 that I can create backups to.

If the USB stick is formatted with an AmigaOS file system that's working without problems.
What doesn't work is to backup Amiga files/dirs to an AmigaOS incompatible file system, for example a FAT, NTFS or extfs formatted USB stick, or SMB, FTP, WebDAV, etc. network drives.

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pinewrap

Re: What the fastest possible x64 emulation way of OS4 today ?

Posted on: 7/14 3:41 #66

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@kas1e If you still have a good os4.1fe winuae configuration could you please forward the information to me?

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dfstudios

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 0:11 #67

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@nbache

Thanks for that.

Kind regards,

Francis

Amiga 1200 with Apollo IceDrake
Amiga 1222+ with RadeonRX 550

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Cageman

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/14 0:07 #68

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@dfstudios

Hello...

I have a Windows 10 machine that I use as a fileserver for production/backup etc. I also have an FTP server software running on it...

My solution on my AmigaONE X5000 is to have two hard drives hooked into the two on board SATA ports. The main drive (2TB) has two partitions, Workbench and Work.

The second hard drive has a single partition but is only used for backups and tempfiles. It is a 4TB NAS classed hard drive.

I use backup from Onyxsoft to mirror the contents of both partitions of the main hard drive into folders on the second hard drive. I've made a script that I execute from shell that looks like this.

BACKUP SOURCE DH0: TARGET DH2:WB_Backup BACKUP SHELLMODE LOGCON AUTOQUIT
BACKUP SOURCE DH1: TARGET DH2:Work_Backup BACKUP SHELLMODE LOGCON AUTOQUIT

I will then ZIP or LHA the things I really need to be backed up to my Windows 10 server and use an FTP client to upload to the server.

In your case, this mean that you will have to sacrifice a CD/DVD Rom though, since there are only 2 ports and there is no option to add a PCI SATA controller card that holds more ports.

This has been the most reliable way for me to make sure I have things backed up properly.

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nbache

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/13 23:33 #69

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@dfstudios

Quote:

I don't understand what is meant by hard and soft links though. Something for me to look up.

There's a good explanation in the documentation file for the MakeLink command:

SYS:Documentation/C/MakeLink.doc

Best regards,

Niels

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dfstudios

Re: Hi to all Amiga fans

Posted on: 7/13 19:48 #70

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@kikems

Welcome!

Kind regards,

Francis

Amiga 1200 with Apollo IceDrake
Amiga 1222+ with RadeonRX 550

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dfstudios

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/13 18:18 #71

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@joergQuote:

joerg wrote:@skynet
Copying single files to any non-AmigaOS file system can't work, for example the AmigaOS comments and protection bits will be missing, and in most cases links as well.

Quote:

The easiest, fastest and most compatible way to make reliable backups is storing image files of your partitions, instead of the individual files and dirs, on external media like NAS, USB, etc.
But I don't know if there is any usable AmigaOS backup software using partition image files.

Thanks for the explanation joerg. I don't understand what is meant by hard and soft links though. Something for me to look up.

I'm starting to think I'll need to change my backup strategy. For now I've just stuck a USB stick in the back of the A1222 that I can create backups to.

One of the backup tools I was looking at did have a backup partition option, but I never tested this and I suspect it probably has a 2GB limit since it is an old piece of software for classic Amigas.

Kind regards,

Francis

Amiga 1200 with Apollo IceDrake
Amiga 1222+ with RadeonRX 550

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dfstudios

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/13 18:11 #72

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@Boabster

Sorry for the late reply. I ended up having an injured back, neck and shoulder which has prevented me from being on the computer.

From the sounds of it you have done almost the same as me. I don't know if this would make a difference, but is the NAS drive connected directly to the A1222 or via a network switch?

Kind regards,

Francis

Amiga 1200 with Apollo IceDrake
Amiga 1222+ with RadeonRX 550

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Hypex

Re: AmigaOS 4 Gaming Nights

Posted on: 7/13 15:33 #73

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@walkero'

I keep thinking of Talladega Nights. I bet it will just as fun!

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Hypex

Re: Hard drive backup software

Posted on: 7/13 15:31 #74

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@Boabster

That's good. Yes it is annoying when a simple text file can break the system. A good idea would be a simple system manager that could be called from start up menu that could do basic editing and disable these drivers.

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joerg

Re: qemu 200% host CPU usage at idle?

Posted on: 7/13 14:23 #75

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@Georg
Quote:

It may be that AOS4 requires an idle task (one that is always TS_READY), if it otherwise doesn't know how to handle the case of no-ready-task-to-run. Unlike AOS3 which handles it in exec/Dispatch()

ExecSG has no Dispatch() function, at least none which does the same as AmigaOS 0.x-3.9 did.

Quote:

If not, "Disable(), Remove(FindTask("idle_task_name")), Enable()" should disable it (without really killing it).

AFAIK the ExecSG task scheduler only works if there is always a ready task, if you do that the task scheduler will likely crash.

Quote:

Or write your own idle task which priority 1 highter than the system one. And in your idle task have a loop which inside calls the whatever PPC instruction(s) which cause the cpu to go to sleep on qemu (maybe the emulated cpu handles such instructions even for cpus that in real life don't have them).

What I did in CPUTemp.docky is to highjack the idle.task by setting it's IP to my code which is an endless loop as well, but one stopping the CPU (IIRC I used the DOZE mode because with NAP and SLEEP modes the timer.device interrupts, which are based on CPU features, were stopped as well and the CPU was only restarted by external HW interrupts like PCI ones) instead of a busy NOP loop.
All PowerPC CPUs support power saving modes, but different ones may need different bits set or cleared in the MSR register, or something else. Or maybe not all CPUs support DOZE but only NAP and SLEEP, which didn't work in my tests.
My CPUTemp.docky code was only tested on 603e and 750 CPUs and therefore replacing the idle.task code is disabled on all other CPUs.

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Raziel

Re: adripper on X5000?

Posted on: 7/13 14:21 #76

Home away from home

@pjs
@trixie

It seems to be broken again...did gnudb.org change their page format?

--

game box/art scans
scummvm infrequent builds

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Georg

Re: qemu 200% host CPU usage at idle?

Posted on: 7/13 10:46 #77

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Quote:

Hans wrote:
I just tried the CPUTemp docky on os4depot, and the idle.task is still eating up all free CPU time. Looks like there's no easy way to disable it.

It may be that AOS4 requires an idle task (one that is always TS_READY), if it otherwise doesn't know how to handle the case of no-ready-task-to-run. Unlike AOS3 which handles it in exec/Dispatch() (loop until there is one with "stop" instruction inside the loop to sleep until interrupt happens which can cause some task to become ready).

If not, "Disable(), Remove(FindTask("idle_task_name")), Enable()" should disable it (without really killing it).

Or write your own idle task which priority 1 highter than the system one. And in your idle task have a loop which inside calls the whatever PPC instruction(s) which cause the cpu to go to sleep on qemu (maybe the emulated cpu handles such instructions even for cpus that in real life don't have them).

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Capehill

Re: qemu 200% host CPU usage at idle?

Posted on: 7/13 9:12 #78

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@Hans

Quote:

That's a pity, because hieronymus can tally up CPU usage on a per-function basis when debug symbols are available.

Did you test Tequila's PROFILE switch, by the way? I added simple profiling support because Hieronymus didn't work on my systems initially (but it was luckily updated later and started to work).

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joerg

Re: qemu 200% host CPU usage at idle?

Posted on: 7/13 7:17 #79

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@nbache
Quote:

So it looks like it wouldn't help in my case to use CPUTemp.docky, as my emulated CPU must be a 604e.

I don't know if it would be working on 604e as well, according to the readme it just wasn't tested with a 604e CPU.
Probably no beta tester with one and I only enabled it for the CPUs on which it was tested successfully.

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joerg

Re: qemu 200% host CPU usage at idle?

Posted on: 7/13 6:43 #80

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@Hans
Quote:

Ranger says: PowerPC 74XX Apollo

You could change the emulated CPU to a 750FX or 750GX and check if CPUTemp.docky can help reducing the host CPU usage.

Make sure the IGNORETASKS tooltype isn't used.
With it CPUTemp.docky calculates the CPU usage itself. I don't remember the details, but it's probably something similar to what Tequila does.
Without it CPUTemp.docky displays the CPU usage calculated by the ExecSG task scheduler.

Quote:

That's a pity, because hieronymus can tally up CPU usage on a per-function basis when debug symbols are available.

gprof probably depends on PerformanceMonitor.resource as well.

I always wrote Pegasos2 is the worst possible OS4 system to emulate with QEmu.
- No OS4 developers, except for the Friedens, had one.
- Next to no OS4 beta testers, if any at all, had one.
- Only firmware without access to the sources, and AmigaOS 4.x depends a lot on the firmware. May have resulted in problems in the exansion.library PCI functions for example. Using a PCIe gfx card with PCI->PCIe bridge works on real Sam440 and AmigaOne XE (not really usable because of the A1 hardware bugs, but it's working), on the Pegasos2 it doesn't work.
- PerformanceMonitor.resource may not be the only OS4 part not supported on the Pegasos2, real and emulated.
- Endian bugs on 15/16 bit screen modes, for example with software using SDL1 (QEmu only, not on real hardware).
- Probably more I forgot.

The only major problem with the AmigaOne and Sam460 emulation in QEmu is probably the missing NVRAM support.
Sam460 emulation is just slower because 405/4x0 CPUs have no usual MMU.

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