Supported PCI USB cards for a Classic Amiga?

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!)

@Spirantho
See the compatibility list.

@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?

@Spirantho

A friend of mine does, I lend him my A4000 with Highway USB (and some other Zorro cards installed). It works very well overall and he is using an USB keyboard/mouse combo with it. It is quite stable (besides we have some issues with AHI, the Toccata driver and Amplifier, but the issues are not that serious) and runs _very_ smooth.

I had one strange thing with this machine some time back, it won't like to start sometimes, constant flashing power LED and such. The reason was, the Highway card came out of it's socket a little bit. After reseating the card the machine runs fine as it did the 10 years before ;)

Maybe yours is suffering from some slot problems, dirt or dust in the socket? Try to clean the card contacts and the socket contacts (be very careful with them!), maybe your machine will get far more stable after the cleaning.

Regards

@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?

@Spirantho

I don?t know, if there are different revisions of the Highway card... mine is one of the first cards (bought the Highway right after first release). I think that handling of the card is different with OS4, which may lead to strange problems that never occur with OS3.x.

In fact, the friend of mine is using the Highway with OS4 and the OS4 drivers and it works like a charm in my machine. The Toccata is doing a great job, too (as long as Amplifier isn?t used). We shouldn?t expect to find software related problems by discussion, so we should exclude possible hardware problems (like problems with the Zorro sockets) first and submit possible software bug reports after.

Regards