Shift838 Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 FYI. IDE boards came in today. Assembly will be commencing... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kchula-Rrit Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Shift838 said: I asked their very exact question to Fred before I started down this path for the through-hole design. He told me it would be a lot of work to work on the DSR to get it loaded into an EPROM. Since the DSR is so simple to load and literally loads in a few seconds (I use the BIN file on my FG99 to load the DSR), Fred nor I could see the benefit to spend that much time to recode the DSR to get it to work on a EPROM. That is okay; I was just curious. Sounds like the DSR uses the RAM for data-storage or, maybe, work-space. K-R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Looks like my IC supplier I ordered my components from, specifically the hexadecimal rotary switch, accidentally pulled a few of the wrong ones, although they look the identical, pin #1 is in a different location and will not work. They have been contacted and new ones should arrive Monday or Tuesday. Orders 71 and 72 will not be able to be completed until then. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 All orders have been filled. I have a handful of new IDEv3 boards available for purchase on my store. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch1995 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 IDE card received, installed and working great. Super build quality. Thanks again!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 10 hours ago, Switch1995 said: IDE card received, installed and working great. Super build quality. Thanks again!! Thanks for the comment. glad you are enjoying it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 (edited) IDE card came in today for me and it's absolutely wonderful. great and talented work. My tipi, 2 MB RAM disc All work flawlessly with it Edited December 24, 2023 by GDMike 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.G. Kaal Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Received my IDE card and components yesterday evening. The IDE PCB looks great 🙂 Now I must spent some time assembling this board. Fred 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.G. Kaal Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 On 1/6/2024 at 1:39 PM, F.G. Kaal said: Received my IDE card and components yesterday evening. The IDE PCB looks great 🙂 Now I must spent some time assembling this board. Fred Assembled the IDE card, checked all +5V and GND connections and placed all the chips in their sockets. Time to test this card ... problems with my system. Didn't want to startup. Problem was my HDX card which had a corrupted DSR (that was a long time ago this happens). After reloading the HDX DSR my TI99/4A system worked fine again. I needed the HDX connection for loading the IDE test program and DSR. Placed the new IDE card in my PEB and started the IDE TEST program. Front LED could be switched on and off. Back LED could not be switched on and of ... now what, maybe wrong orientation, sort that out later ... proceed anyway ... can not write to DSR RAM. Something is seriously wrong here. After some investigation I found that the selection switch at the back of the card was in the off position (duh). On the bright side this is also a good test ... that switch on the back did it's job. Moved the switch to the TI position. Front LED and back LED could be switched on and off but the IDE test program still could not write to the DSR RAM. Now what! Also for this test I had placed the voltage regulator on the card although my test PEB is equipped with a 5V/12V/-12V switching power supply. Seems that for this card the +5V of my power supply is not enough. I suppose that the voltage left at the output of the voltage regulator is to little for the clock chip to enable the RAM chip. After disabling the voltage regulator on the IDE card the IDE test program finished with no errors. Could also load the latest IDE DSR with no problem so everything seems to work fine. Thank you again Chris for this beautiful designed IDE card. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari2600PAL Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Received my IDE card today, great quality Am all up and running (currently with CF cards) Many thanks Chris 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift838 Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 On 2/12/2024 at 12:45 PM, Atari2600PAL said: Received my IDE card today, great quality Am all up and running (currently with CF cards) Many thanks Chris Glad you are enjoying it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari2600PAL Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Could I ask how accurate the RTC is expected to be over time please? I just noticed it's gained 6 minutes since I reset the time sometime in March Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 So I finally got my IDE board assembled and it seems to work fine, but it is refusing to properly partition the 3 different CF cards I tried. The cards are recognized and go through the partitioning and initialization process in DU2K without errors, but when I check they are still reporting as unpartitioned. What gives? Am I missing something here or is the board very particular about certain CF cards? I tried 2 256MB cards and a 2GB one with similar results. All known working in other devices. I even tried 3 different CF-IDE adapters with no change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 I suspected an issue with the DATA lines of the IDE connector, and eventually traced back the problem to IC's 6 and 7 which were not seated properly with one side of the chips not fully inserted (machine sockets can be tricky). Once the chips were reseated the problem went away. FYI in case someone runs into a similar situation. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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