nemike Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Hi everyone, I was searching the atari8bit.net site and can't find any info on who I can contact about that site, I would like to contribute to the Flash programming section of the sdrive-max instructions/tutorial as I just went through the hassles of flashing, attempting on Windows Mac and Linux. I'd like to contribute so other wouldn't have to spend time searching for the issues as I did. Anyways, anyone know who I could reach out to and how to reach out to them? Thanks, Mike Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Welcome to the forums! At the bottom of every page there is a footer with links to contact the author, including the (highlighted) link to his AtariAge profile. But it's my website so that would be me, what can I do for you? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Sorry I'm an old internet fart and was looking for "Contact Me" and an email address I don't do much social media and generally mentally skip those, not thinking they are ways to get a hold of someone! Thanks!!!! Anyways I have just been through the process of trying to program the Uno on Windows, Mac and Linux and after a bit of issues was able to determine the steps necessary to get drivers to work correctly on MacOS to be able to talk to the programmer on the Uno behind the USB controller. In my case the USB controller is the CH340 FTDI USB controller. Sparkfun has the correct drivers and steps necessary to be able to over ride the default driver Apple provides and use the correct driver. I was able to program the Uno with Linux, but plan to test the Sparkfun steps to ensure it works before we update the docs. Mike Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 No one in their right mind posts an email address on a web page nowadays! The spam problem is bad enough without publicising a valid address to send junk to. What problems were you hitting when you followed the instructions on the page? I documented the steps I took to program the uno as I wrote the docs, I even looked for simpler ways to do it as most people doing it aren't particularly technical, hence the use of gui based flashers where available. What issues did you encounter? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Very good point about email addresses.... With the Uno's with the CH340, which are the one's pictured on your page as Bestduino, you get this error on MacOS (Mojave) avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 ... Mike Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) I do appear to need some community help. I followed the installation steps, it discovered the panel, then I did the second hex file and it had me calibrate the display and it came up saying it needed the SDrive.atr which I then copied to the SD card and then booted the uno again. It appears to do nothing when I touch it anywhere on the GUI. If I leave it for a while it goes into a screen saver and I can touch it and the screen saver stops and the GUI comes back but I still can't interact with the GUI. The touch screen is the ELEGOO UNO R3 EL-SM-004, it says it has ILI9341. Here the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUVJYME I have not even connected it yet to the Atari. Any suggestions? I hope I'm in the correct forum for these two topics... Edited October 10, 2020 by nemike Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
archeocomp Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, nemike said: I do appear to need some community help. I followed the installation steps, it discovered the panel, then I did the second hex file and it had me calibrate the display and it came up saying it needed the SDrive.atr which I then copied to the SD card and then booted the uno again. It appears to do nothing when I touch it anywhere on the GUI. If I leave it for a while it goes into a screen saver and I can touch it and the screen saver stops and the GUI comes back but I still can't interact with the GUI. The touch screen is the ELEGOO UNO R3 EL-SM-004, it says it has ILI9341. Here the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUVJYME I have not even connected it yet to the Atari. Any suggestions? I hope I'm in the correct forum for these two topics... Maybe try different sd card. Does it say ready on the screen? Edited October 10, 2020 by archeocomp Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Yes, it says Ready at the bottom. I did try no sd card, it then didn’t say ready, but shouldn’t you be able press something, maybe CFG or something? I try pressing all over and nonthing ever happens. But as I said once it goes into screen saver mode I can tap it and it goes back to showing the GUI. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4650983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddtmw Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 1 hour ago, nemike said: Yes, it says Ready at the bottom. I did try no sd card, it then didn’t say ready, but shouldn’t you be able press something, maybe CFG or something? I try pressing all over and nonthing ever happens. But as I said once it goes into screen saver mode I can tap it and it goes back to showing the GUI. Try pressing the screen when powering up to reinvoke the screen calibration. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 8 hours ago, nemike said: avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 This looks like you have the wrong usb device selected, I'd need the full command line you used and the list of all your usb devices. I've used the arduino sdk bundled avrdude to program that uno model on mojave and catalina with no issues so it's likely a workflow issue. 7 hours ago, nemike said: It appears to do nothing when I touch it anywhere on the GUI. If I leave it for a while it goes into a screen saver and I can touch it and the screen saver stops and the GUI comes back but I still can't interact with the GUI. This does sound like bad calibration, as @toddtmw says, try pressing the screen as you power it up to trigger the recalibration routine. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 4 hours ago, nemike said: Yes, it says Ready at the bottom. I did try no sd card, it then didn’t say ready, but shouldn’t you be able press something, maybe CFG or something? I try pressing all over and nonthing ever happens. But as I said once it goes into screen saver mode I can tap it and it goes back to showing the GUI. I had a similar issue, a different SD card resolved it Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 5 hours ago, Mr Robot said: This looks like you have the wrong usb device selected, I'd need the full command line you used and the list of all your usb devices. I've used the arduino sdk bundled avrdude to program that uno model on mojave and catalina with no issues so it's likely a workflow issue. So today I installed Mojave fresh on a system, updated to 10.14.6, install Ardunio via the link in your instructions, run it, exited it, downloaded and ran HexUploader, it shows nothing in the HexUploader window, I've attached pics of HexUploader window as I select stuff. And lastly here is a run of ps to show the process: $ ps -eaf | grep avr 501 1330 1319 0 4:58PM ?? 0:00.29 /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -F -Cavrdude.conf -pm328p -carduino -P/dev/cu.usbserial-A50285BI -D -Uflash:w:/Users/admin/Downloads/sdrive-max-v12/atmega328-ili9341/eeprom_writer.hex Here are the devices in /dev crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 2 Oct 10 16:41 tty.usbserial-A50285BI crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 3 Oct 10 16:41 cu.usbserial-A50285BI Left it running for a while and nothing ever happened. This is all different than I experienced on my main system, but I do have lots of different stuff like MPLAB, Renesas development, etc, which is why I did a fresh OS install to work through the testing to get the instructions narrowed down. After waiting for 10-20 minutes while I wrote this all up, I finally unplugged the USB and got these messages in the HexUploader window: avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude done. Thank you. I will wait for a reply from you before I test the Sparkfun CH340 drivers https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ch340-drivers/all 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Hi, I had a similar problem, and @MacRorie very kindly uploaded a couple of files for blanking the EPROM/firmware. It's in this thread - on the second page - am posting just before calling it a night, so apologies if I have skimmed over the problem, etc. Hope this helps, and if it does, maybe worth updating the docs? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Thanks Moonsweeper, I'm working with Mr Robot to see if we need to make changes to the docs. The above information is for MacOS Mojave. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4651527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I am still trying to get my sdrive-max to work, I've tried as suggested to re-calibrate and I've tried several different SD cards, but nothing makes any difference. As I mentioned before, calibration works, after the sdrive-max goes into screen saver I can tap the screen and the GUI re-appears, but taping anything on the screen does nothing. The touch screen is the ELEGOO UNO R3 EL-SM-004, it says it has ILI9341. Here the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EUVJYME HELP! Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I can't imagine this isn't a problem? shouldn't x1,y1 and x2,y2 be farther apart or am I guessing wrong? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MacRorie Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 17 minutes ago, nemike said: I can't imagine this isn't a problem? shouldn't x1,y1 and x2,y2 be farther apart or am I guessing wrong? Looks normal to me. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 3 hours ago, nemike said: I can't imagine this isn't a problem? shouldn't x1,y1 and x2,y2 be farther apart or am I guessing wrong? That is absolutely normal. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Actually those coordinates were indeed indicating a problem, they should be more reasonable like in the end when I got this: Note the values, this time are not within 1 and 5 pixels of each other, this time the coordinates are separated by 823 and 829. After lots of reading datasheets and source code for sdrive-max, tft.c / eeprom-writer.c and loading the example elegoo paint program and that worked fine. My problem was the first time it auto-detected the touch screen it incorrectly "guessed" the pinouts for the touch screen. I'm all set now and it's working good. I might contribute some code changes to the calibrate to allow for testing the coordinates, including a suggestion to redo the eeprom-writer to auto-detect again. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 On 10/10/2020 at 4:17 PM, nemike said: So today I installed Mojave fresh on a system, updated to 10.14.6, install Ardunio via the link in your instructions, run it, exited it, downloaded and ran HexUploader, it shows nothing in the HexUploader window, I've attached pics of HexUploader window as I select stuff. And lastly here is a run of ps to show the process: $ ps -eaf | grep avr 501 1330 1319 0 4:58PM ?? 0:00.29 /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -F -Cavrdude.conf -pm328p -carduino -P/dev/cu.usbserial-A50285BI -D -Uflash:w:/Users/admin/Downloads/sdrive-max-v12/atmega328-ili9341/eeprom_writer.hex Here are the devices in /dev crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 2 Oct 10 16:41 tty.usbserial-A50285BI crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 3 Oct 10 16:41 cu.usbserial-A50285BI Left it running for a while and nothing ever happened. This is all different than I experienced on my main system, but I do have lots of different stuff like MPLAB, Renesas development, etc, which is why I did a fresh OS install to work through the testing to get the instructions narrowed down. After waiting for 10-20 minutes while I wrote this all up, I finally unplugged the USB and got these messages in the HexUploader window: avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_send(): write error: Device not configured avrdude: ser_recv(): read error: Device not configured avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00 avrdude: ser_drain(): read error: Device not configured avrdude done. Thank you. I will wait for a reply from you before I test the Sparkfun CH340 drivers https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ch340-drivers/all Yeah, OK that does look like something is wrong. I wonder if I've got drivers installed I didn't know about from some other arduino project in the past. I'll look into it. Thanks for all the hard work you are putting into this! Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4654879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemike Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 On 10/15/2020 at 6:55 AM, Mr Robot said: Yeah, OK that does look like something is wrong. I wonder if I've got drivers installed I didn't know about from some other arduino project in the past. I'll look into it. Thanks for all the hard work you are putting into this! Thanks I wanna contribute to make thing easier for others. If there is any other testing I can do, especially if you determine what you think you have on your system, I can try it here. I currently just program the arduino from linux for now. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4655668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grieverjm Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Hi i bought an Arduino UNO and a ili9341 2.4" lcd to make an SDrive form my atari XeGs unfortunately i only got a white screen. I tried everything not even the Adafruit, Lcdwiki, MCUfriend, examples on Arduino IDE got the screen to work. Then i found this blog http://blog.yarda.eu/2015/09/how-to-get-chinese-24-tft-lcd-ili9341.html His modified code is the only one that got my screen to finally display something. I copied the initialization that worked on my screen and added this part to the ili9341 screen initialization code of SDrive on Display.c #else TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_POWERA); TFT_write(0x39); TFT_write(0x2C); TFT_write(0x00); TFT_write(0x34); TFT_write(0x02); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_POWERB); TFT_write(0x00); TFT_write(0XA2); TFT_write(0XF0); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_DTCA); TFT_write(0x84); TFT_write(0x11); TFT_write(0x7A); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_DTCB); TFT_write(0x66); TFT_write(0x00); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_POWER_SEQ); TFT_write(0x55); TFT_write(0x01); TFT_write(0X23); TFT_write(0X01); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_PRC); TFT_write(0x20); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_POWER1); TFT_write(0x23); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_POWER2); TFT_write(0x10); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_VCOM1); TFT_write(0x2B); TFT_write(0x2B); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_VCOM2); TFT_write(0xC0); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_MAC); TFT_write(0x80); TFT_write(0x08); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_PIXEL_FORMAT); TFT_write(0x55); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_FRC); TFT_write(0x00); TFT_write(0x1B); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_ENTRY_MODE_SET); TFT_write(0x07); TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_SLEEP_OUT); delay_ms(150); //TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_DISPLAY_ON); //TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_GRAM); #endif } and #else TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_DISPLAY_ON); delay_ms(500); //TFT_write_cmd(ILI9341_GRAM); #endif delay after initialization. Recompiled and finally got it to work. I'm practically an illiterate in programing so maybe there's a better way of doing this, but at least now it works. I just wanted to post this to help other people with the same problem. The attached file is an Arduino IDE modified LCDWiki example file to test the screen. ili9341SimpleTest.ino Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4666384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Hi, I think @kbrwrote the software for the SDrive-Max, you might want to try and message him via his AtariAge account - I think he also is a member of ABBUC, and there is a github repo for the SDrive-Max that holds the sources, though I don't have the URL for it to hand. Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4666522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LarryL Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 5 hours ago, E474 said: ...there is a github repo for the SDrive-Max that holds the sources, though I don't have the URL for it to hand. https://github.com/kbr-net/sdrive-max/releases Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4666682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padlex Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Hi, I try to build UNO2SIO board version for UNO, turn on but don't load anything. Please help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/275629-sdrive-max-atx-support/page/47/#findComment-4698799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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