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alanh wrote:USB4TOS drivers will be automatically updated daily as the code comes from the FreeMiNT repository.
They can be downloaded from....
http://www.freemint.org
And click the "USB4TOS" link.
Enjoy !
alanh wrote:USB4TOS drivers will be automatically updated daily as the code comes from the FreeMiNT repository.
They can be downloaded from....
http://www.freemint.org
And click the "USB4TOS" link.
Enjoy !
alanh wrote:Hi dbsys, it's a limited audience. I have sold less than 20 for the ST/STE/TT and I did it because I had a need for it for my T40 with ACSI. So I suspect it's highly unlikely I'll tackle such a device.
alanh wrote:Hi Frank, yes, I think I'm going to have to do that next as the 8MB boards haven't really gone at all to get some money back.
arf wrote:alanh wrote:Hi dbsys, it's a limited audience. I have sold less than 20 for the ST/STE/TT and I did it because I had a need for it for my T40 with ACSI. So I suspect it's highly unlikely I'll tackle such a device.
Please don’t take this as criticism, but no wonder many projects sell poorly -- too often these are projects, not products. But people want to buy products, not projects. For a product you need a website that clearly states what is is, what it can do, what not, some nice photos and (especially!) an easy, transparent way to order.
Some stuff buried in a webforum like this is not a product page that will sell stuff to anyone who’s not a regular here in the forums.
As I’m somehow physically incompatible with web forums like PHPbb and similar things I also didn’t hear about that project at all - since now. And I would like to order one. But I can’t find anything in the web besides a youtube video (that has no URL given on where to find more about this) and a software driver download link, that doesn’t explain what the hardware can do or not.
I hope that you don’t feel insulted by my words. I really appreciate that you and many others create good stuff for our beloved machines. And of course you don’t want to create a fully blown webshop for every project. But something like http://www.vesalia.de would be great to have - a place where you can browse the different hardware options and buy stuff.
arf wrote:alanh wrote:Hi Frank, yes, I think I'm going to have to do that next as the 8MB boards haven't really gone at all to get some money back.
Which 8 MB boards?
alanh wrote:http://www.freemint.org/8mb/8mb.html
alanh wrote:It shouldn't matter whether HDDRIVER is loaded before the USB code or after, but you may want to try loading HDDRIVER from floppy first, before loading the USB drivers to see if that helps at all.
Also, is it listing the same device on bus 3 in all 7 SCSI locations ? A picture would speak volumes here.
You also don't need HDDRIVER at all to partition USB devices. Just click on the device in HDDRUTIL and go straight to partitioning.
But remember, you can't boot from this drive, even with TOS 2.06.
Picture coming up:
See - that's what the "I'm not clever enough" part was about. I believe a simple FAQ of the type "I just got my Unicorn, now how do I create a compatible partition on my USB flash drive?" is what I'm looking for
(Then I got stuck on whatever I selected the only response was "This partition scheme is only valid for MAGiC / MiNT" and I could - seemingly - not continue. However, I spent very little time messing about with the options)
alanh wrote:It shouldn't matter whether HDDRIVER is loaded before the USB code or after, but you may want to try loading HDDRIVER from floppy first, before loading the USB drivers to see if that helps at all.
alanh wrote:Are you using the BETA drivers or the ones from http://www.freemint.org/builds/usb4tos/
There's also the youtube videos which show you how to partition.
alanh wrote:Oh, and I think with the demo HDDRIVER you are limited to a partition size of 512KB, yes that's KB !
alanh wrote:Also, choose "Compatibility" and select the TOS & Windows check boxes to make it compatible with both.
troed wrote:The latter (build of 21st July)However, there's an informative readme in the BETA-release that I don't think I've seen in any other places.
The major difference is of course that I get eight devices listed everywhere but it seems to not be relevant. I did spot one thing in the video though - "type".
troed wrote:2.1 Go to Tools and then Auto Configuring
2.2 Now do Partitioning. Enter size (0.5 in the demo version) but most importantly remove ANYTHING from the "type" field just before size.
3) After partitioning being done and HDDRutil asks to reboot - do so.
4) This boot the USB drivers should pick up your new partition and automatically install a Disk icon on the GEM Desktop named "USB".
Now I'll look into the apparent lack of interoperability - but I'm reached my goal of getting a C: up from my USB Flash drive. Many thanks for all your help AlanIn the end it seems to have been HDDRutil always having put a random value in the "type" field, which I thought was something important, that kept my partitions from being recognized.
alanh wrote:arf wrote:alanh wrote:Hi Frank, yes, I think I'm going to have to do that next as the 8MB boards haven't really gone at all to get some money back.
Which 8 MB boards?
http://www.freemint.org/8mb/8mb.html
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