help with amigaone g3-se

hello, Daz, what do you mean for 'The 66mhz slot, which has the wrong connector on'? what's wrong with the pci connector? Is it possible to fix it?
For the rest, I agree, no battery problem as for now
on board ide works ok for me, it is setted as automatic so I don't know what pio or dma is using, is there a program that check this?

@satiropan
Hi, Sorry to hear about the dead ETH3COM, did you happen to see this post:
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.b ... wtopic.php?p=17066#p17066
by @Evilllord68, some useful info about DMA on the SE including a link to a
driverpack created by Stephane Guillard specifically to deal with the SE's
DMA problems, ( I'm using it at the moment without any sign of trouble )
I thought that if you can improve the onboard ide's speed, that would free up
a pci slot for your Ethernet card.

Draby

hi, thanx for the link.
regarding the IDE, well, I have to admit that downgrading to onboard ide once I have tasted/tested the sata...it's a pity! but I won't give up.
mabe could it be a u-boot issue? I have u-boot 1.1.4, I have downloaded u-boot 1.1.6, anybody has updated to this?
in case, I could buy a new eprom chip and do the upgrade on it, so if it goes wrong I revert to the old one.
but which type of eprom amigaone se uses? who knows

@LiveForIt

In my A1SE I have original battery :) and it still works.

Quote:C:IDETool. E.g. try this:

idetool -L a1ide.device

But there are lots of other options. Running idetool with no options should give you an overview.

Best regards,

Niels

It seems to me there are several variants of the G3SE. Mine never worked properly with UDMA, but works fine 99.9% of the time with PIO (I occasionally get disk error requesters, but clicking Retry always cures them).

I agree though that it should never have made it to market. It's not a sign of a good computer that you have to fill up all your PCI slots to get basic functionality.

EDIT: The OP might want to check if the 3Com Ethernet is listed as a PCI device. PCI IDs are shown at boot, and I think there are utilities to list them in AmigaOS.

@ Mlehto

When I think about it the battery problem might be XE only problem. I think it was some thing to do whit onboard audio or something, I have not changed battery in along time, was it fixable by software?

The battery problem affects SE's as well, I think. I've swapped it once or twice to the SE.

@LiveForIt

I'm not sure, why batteries usually drains out.

I think, that A1 SE boards are from some kind of developing rounds, because they seem to differ.

It is somehow acceptable board, only too few PCI-slots to resolve all problems :) In time, when there wasnt anything else, it was better than nothing.

I never did USB problems fully solved, even with NEC card. Others I got away with additional hardware.

Now I'm happy with my peg2, anyway.

found the problem with onboard ethernet!
it's the chip that has to be reflown.
in fact if I press it while I boot, the 3comm is seen, and on workbench I can happily set the interface and go to internet with no problems.
now I have to decide whether reflow the chip or put some hardware device that keeps it pressed!
any advice for the reflow? I have the hot air reworking station, the atten 858d+. I think I will have to thermically isolate all the surrounding components, put some form of blocking on the chip and then hot air around 420° celsius, what do you think?

so I made a reflow with my atten 858d+.
in the beginning the onboard ethernet was immmediately seen by u-boot
then I booted with the sata hard disk but I soon discovered:
1. the ethernet was seen but the Amiga would freeze as soon as I loaded the eth3com.device
2. the primary ide bus is no longer working
3. after many tests, the onboard ethernet was no longer seen by u-boot
now I boot with sata hard disk, but I need to find a proper usb to lan adapter, one that uses the ADMTek ADM8511 chip, since I have seen this driver is present in the ethernet driver list of OS4.1
Any of you knows of a brand/model adapter that uses this chip?
Or any of you knows of other usb to lan drivers?
For the 3com chip, in the future I will take it off and try a reballing......
man vs machine!

now things are a little better
I dismounted the board and had a close look with magnifier.
I found 3 points where the green wire reworks had desoldered.
I soldered them again and the whole board improved, the ide bus is again working
I have found that the backup battery is at 2.99V, do you think it's ok or should be changed (for the in-famous battery problem of the amigaone)?