New Sam460cr boards will hit the road soon!

@geennaam

Only A-Cube might have run Cow3D-Nova on a SaM440ep before yourself.

@geennaam

Good going, i'm sure there will be a few people interested in your results.

Cheers

@TiredOfLife

I have referenced this thread in my old thread on Amigaworld.net

@Spectre660

Spencer trail first level runs between 30-36 fps at 1920x1080.

Warp3D-SI drivers runs fine as well. Shogo is very playable at 1920x1080.

Cow3d improved to 223fps. Even on a 3440x1440 workbench screen.

Ragemem gives only 23 MB/s read/write from/to gfx memory.

Noticed some stabity issues. Seemed related to ethernet. But it could also be my test setup. Graphics card didn't fit into the small case so it was outside the case. Will share a photo of the frankenstein setup tomorrow.

This ends my test. R9 270X returned to the X5000.

@geennaam

Nice going.

Your Spencer FPS is beter than what I was getting with an X5000/20 and an Oland based card some years ago.

X5000/20

ASUS R7-240 (Oland) = 22-23 fps
PowerColor R7-250X (Cape Verde) = 64-69 fps
ASUS R9-270X (/Pitcairn/Curaçao XT)= 72-80 fps
Sapphire Rx 550 4Gb (Polaris 12) = 95-109 fps
Asus Rx 560 4GB (Polaris 11) = 128-161 fps


Sam460ex

Sapphire Rx 550 4Gb (Polaris 12) = 25-37 fps
PowerColor R7-250X (Cape Verde) = 34-44 fps
Asus Rx 560 4GB (Polaris 11) = 34-46 fps

Maybe it is better to continue about SAM440 in this thread...

https://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum ... php?topic_id=8370&start=0

@All
And "CoolerMaster MASTERBOX NR200P [MCB-NR200P-WGNN-S00] White" is the 100% winner! Very small (not slim, but very small), video card fits very well vertically, 3 more horizontal slots (exactly good for Sata and audio card), coming with Riser cable, full of additional stuff (like fans which I of course will not install), strained glass, real metal with no plastic. And sam460cr fits very-very well in! Without the need for additional work.

There are some images (click on them for full size ones):

Case



Matherboard inside




Riser




Vertical GFX setup (RadeonRX 560)





Back

@kas1e

Nice case

I've send you a pm with a link to the new HD audio driver with cache coherency fix for SAM boards.

@geennaam

Thanks! Got it, but sadly will be able to test it only after a week (going to other place today :( )

@kas1e

Cool that the riser cable is included. I might get a case for my Sam460ex. You paid about €100 (without SFX-PSU)?

@arfcarl
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Yeah, cost me 90 Euro for the Case and about 50-60 Euro for SFX-PSU on 550W. If sam460ex is the same size as sam460cr, then it will fit surely. If it bigger, then chances high that it will not.

@All
Start to assembly my sam460cr, and have some more questions:

1.

That one fixed. Was about issues to have 3 USB devices connected at one time (mouse, keyboard, and USB stick to boot from). While experimenting finds out that if you want to boot when USB stick in the motherboards USB ports, it works only when you put the USB stick to 1st slot, and keyboard to the second. Not another way around.

But then when I just connect mouse and keyboard to mother board's port, and a USB stick to one on front panel connect to JP12 via USB3<->USB2 adapter (as I have USB3.0 cable coming with Tower, so had to use an adapter) - then all fine, I can boot from USB-stick, and have both a USB mouse and USB keyboard working as well.

There is also very easy to made a mistake to how to connect it to JP12/JP13, even if it pointed out where pin1 placed, so to reference later there is how it should be:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s_Tc-PcHKyM ... JWp75U/s1600/IMG_7108.JPG

2.

The second question still valid: I attached SSD, to the first slot of that expansion SATA card. Then when I boot just with keyboard and USB-Stick to amigaos4 installation screen, in the media toolbox all I see is "usbstorage.device", but nothing about the SATA device or how it will be called.

Should I do something else manually in the OS so it will be visible?

From UBoot on serial i have see that information:



So SATA card visibly, SSD connected to it visibly in Uboot too. But why I didn't see it in the media toolbox? Something like "sixxxxx.device" should be, right?

If I run Ranger, I can see in the device "sii3512ide.device" which looks indeed like my card. But it still didn't show in the media toolbox. Probably I need to do something manually there, like switching to some other mode or something?

I checked Epsilon's blog when he installs things on sam460cr, and he surely has this sii3114ide.device show up in the media toolbox:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g8n4dRDOO08 ... F5RlVk/s1600/IMG_7144.JPG

But I didn't have it in my media toolbox si3512ide.device there for some reasons (while having it in Ranger).

Maybe this sii3512 is just a bad card for sam460?

Thanks!

@kas1e

"1 -> AmigaOS 4.x: SD0 AmigaOS 4.1 CD"

It seems you prefer both SD and CD before HDD? Please change that in Uboot settings.

@arfcarl
Quote:

Are you sure it can be a cause of not showing my SI device in the media toolbox, but showing si.device loaded in Ranger?

@kas1e

No, I'm not. But I suggest you try. :)

Suggestion:
1: CD
2: HDD
3: SD or None

@kas1e

Try a regular harddrive first.
SSD's may not always work.

@arfcarl
sorry not sure that I understand what you mean :) this "1 -> AmigaOS 4.x: SD0 AmigaOS 4.1 CD" is what I have when just boot from a USB stick (default name of it). And when I hit "1" I just start loading from the USB stick - all as expected and as should be. I.e. it just a "welcome string".

Just when installation from USB stick loads up (and while I have in the Uboot that my SSD is recognized), when I load up media-toolbox i have no si_xxxxx.device shown. Only usbdisk.device

And when I fire up Ranger, I can see that the necessary sixxxxxx.kmod is loaded, and the device is in the memory, just MediaToolbox didn't see it.


@Spectre

Sadly I didn't have any regular hard drives anymore, only SSD ones.

And for now, I tried another SATA card, this time: si3114ide.device : it also showups in Ranger fine (that is loaded, so AOS4 installation detect correctly what card are attached to sam), but again, nothing in MediaToolbox about :(

It's like something should be set/unset in Uboot or so... Or maybe I should use newer siixxxxx.device (in installation CD for SAM I have 53.20, while the latest is 53.22 with some fix, but dunno if that related).

In Ranger, when I select sii3114ide.device, and hit "Query" it returns for NSD Query :

Open: 44 (Unknown)
Type: N/A
Sub: N/A

If that brings any info about .. And opens count in Ranger also "0".

When in uboot i type "sata info 1" i have:

Quote:

So Uboot clearly detect SSD and of the correct size. Just wtf amigaos4 install CD didn't load up a device in the media toolbox...

As can be seen, it's "SATA device 1", not "0". And does not matter which ports I use: SSD recognized only when I connect it to the first port on the SATA card, and it's already "device 1".

I have in my current envs those strings related to SI and boots:

Quote:

Can't see there anything which should make mediatoolbox not see sixxxxx.device (which is loaded by system as Ranger shown, so detected by os4 too, just not by mediatoolbox).

"pci" show that it all connected too:

Quote:

kas1e: Try boot AmigaOS from CD and skip USB completely.

And perhaps set your Uboot nvram settings back to default.

@Spectre
And i tried to do some trick: i just loaded up, and in mediatoolbox change DEVICE tooltype on DEVICE=sii3114ide.device. Then save, run, and it brings me an error with the words "Couldn't use sii3114ide.device because there are no units attached."

Strange! Uboot shows that unit attached for sure (through as device #1, not as device #0, even in the first slot), but OS4 didn't see it

@kas1e

is there any info on the debug output when AOS4.1 start the siixxxx_ide.device?