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A visual inspection of the caps and the solder work would suffice.

Given the amount of work to do that and the fact that they've been in storage for a while, I'd recap the psu regardless.

Paul

ummm, how long did you wait?

RISC OS is co-operative multi-tasking not pre-emptive so it can appear to hang when really busy...

Not sure what to do now. If anyone else has any ideas about unbricking one of these cards, now would be a good time to jump in!

Good news after all

Paul

I have the I-cubed EtherLAN600 nic atm Perfect, you'll need to update its flash ROM from ROOL. This one does work as I've done it to mine. The ROM image includes a later version of SharedCLibrary which should take precedence at boot. Download the NIC drivers from here: https://www.riscosopen.org/co...

There's a definite fix for Netsurf. What's the exact network card you have?

Paul

After a lot of faffing, we got it working. I ended up zipping up my toolbox folder and sending it over. Whilst the ROOL toolbox build is 11 years younger the version numbers are lower so I have a toolbox module 1.87 from 2007 and ROOL's latest build is 1.58 from 2018. There's other issues to sort wi...

I really need to get my ar*e into gear and get my A410/1 dev machine up and running so I can look at building a ROM compatible version of AutoVIDC so it can go into a 3.2x ROM Image at the moment it uses too much of the original codebase I inherited with self modifying code instead of allocating som...

I'll pm you.

Paul

I think that's your best bet. This card are a bit picky. One they're running though, they're just fine.

Paul

Using *help toolbox should return the version of toolbox that you have loaded. Mine is 1.87 from 21 Feb 2007. On my system, this module is located in !Boot.Resources.!System.350.Modules.Toolbox I've attached a little tool that once loaded, you can drag any module to it and it'll give you all the inf...

EDIT: I should have clicked on the link to the previous topic. The software I have is the software I've already posted...

Sorry

Paul

That doesn't look like it's booting from the hard drive using the !Boot folder as that unplugs the built in toolbox related modules and soft loads the later modules which you need. If you are booting from a boot folder then you'll need to do something more. When I upgraded from 4.02 (4.37) to 4.39, ...

I had this a few years back when I did Andrews A3010 Adelaide conversion and fitted an idea IDE board. It turned out that those boards are very sensitive to how the partition table is constructed and I had to repartition the card using special tools Dave at APDL emailed me especially for the job. I'...

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You could achieve the very look with a dark silver top, red detailing in the lower case lip and black base...

Paul

Xavier just e-mailed me... It won't work on a TV without the voltage to tell the TV to switch to aux rgb. It can be solved with a USB cable plugged into one of the USB sockets of the TV, and sent to the 2 pins on the SCART (I don't remember which ones at present) I believe he's referring to pin 8 on...

Definitely no VIDC Enhancer fitted, it was a good possibility though without seeing the motherboard but it looks like you have a very much factory defaults A310 on your hands there. The field changes around the video output haven't been applied either although you won't notice a difference until you...

I'd check to see if it's not been upgraded with a VIDC Enhancer and the sync split into H and V. If so, it's likely you'll need to swap some jumpers about to sort the sync out or plug a VGA monitor into it. Here's the docs you need regarding video specs and monitors etc. https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/...

No one seems to have mentioned upgrading the audio output... I'd be wanting something a bit more SID like as a minimum and possibly something a bit more Arc or Amiga like (but with better audio filtering) if the system could stretch to it. EDIT: Sorry, missed this: The current spec has dual AY-8-891...

steve3000 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:24 pm

could it be the partitioning software you're using was written pre-RO3.6?

The software I have for the podule is version 2.23 dated 11-Feb 2004. I suspect it's "young enough" to support >4GB partitions... At least I think it should...

Paul

It's this card: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... _SCSI.html I have one of those in my A540. When I bought it, I bought a flash rom upgrade from Gary Partis at Partis Computing . Might be worth contacting him for advice - he's helped me with support for other old podules in the past. oooh...

Thanks for all the info, I thought 4GB was a little low... The situation and symptoms I see are as follows. When the 128GB card is configured with the SCSI2SD utility as a 110GB drive. The Power-tec card happily sees the device and allows me to configure partitions to any size I like. When it runs t...

Does RISC OS 4 Filecore have a 4GB partition limit? I've just installed a SCSI2SD card on the Power-tec SCSI card I have. The card manual says it can support 256GB drives but the largest partition I can safely make on my 128GB SD card is 4GB so I have 8 4GB partitions at the moment on "device 0". I'...

Your efforts are much appreciated. It's no small feat building all those boards!

Paul

Codename: Droid?

£8 for a digital download £8 for a piece of free software? :? The software really needs to go up on Chris's Acorns, along with photos and info about the card. From the brief info I found out about it, it sounds like a decent piece of kit - one of the true digital capture cards. Pretty rare as well ...

Well, it cost me £8 for a digital download from CJE but it's worth it to see the hardware and software working well together.
Paul

As an update to this. I flashed the 10/100 card with the latest firmware downloaded from the ROOL site which introduced several significant changes it seems. Once the firmware was updated, I figured I'd try to re-install the original Design-IT EtherLAN 600 I had and see if it worked. The upshot of t...

I've asked, so I'm waiting for a response. It doesn't seem to be a particularly widespread bit of hardware but it does appear to be a very nice piece of hardware. Hopefully they have a copy, if not, the card will have to come out as there's no sense in it consuming power when I have no software to d...

As per the subject, I'm looking for a copy of this application for my RiscPC. Wayback machine has the download page, but not the archive of the software itself... https://web.archive.org/web/20010423021313/http://www.irlam-instruments.co.uk/ If anyone has a copy of this software they could send me, ...

Quoting from the Read Me file in my archive of Baildon IDE stuff... There is a small problem with RO4 in that the drive icons appear at the wrong height. Until we get this fixed properly put this in the Choices.Tasks directory of your !Boot directory and it will make all the icons the right height....

I'm on my mobile so I'll keep it short but... 1. RISC OS 3.11 is probably best atm, but look out for the thread on building an unofficial 3.20 set of ROMs on this forum. 2. Rather than a HD floppy drive upgrade, use a Gotek. More convenient and will support all disc capacities for the Arc. 3. IDE ca...