Nicolas DET has kindly provided pegasosforum.de with a beta release of his USB2 driver.

ATM there's people successfully using NEC and ALI based USB2 cards.

You can download the driver here at pegasosforum.de

Please remember that it is a beta release so don't annoy the coder much.

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I mean... if you plan to write Nicolas don't send him an email saying "it doesn't work!" but please send him debug logs and useful information about your configuration. Don't expect the driver to work flawlessly. The autor has kindly given us the chance of testing his work so please be respectful and try to help him with useful debug information.

You can post to this thread your experiences with the driver. Please write your config and which kind of hardware (including brand, model and specs) you tested. Your Poseidon config may be important too.

[ Edited by Crumb on 2006/10/26 19:01 ]

I'm sure Nicolas would appreciate useful bugreports, though. Especially if it is something you can reproduce.

@Merko

I agree... I wanted to remark that complains like "it doesn't work" (without useful debug information) won't help him...

Nice!

Who knows, maybe the gigabit ethernet driver is next? And then MOS1.5 even?

I tried it with my old VIA USB 2 Card, but it doesn't work. It's normal cause This driver supports only NEC and ALI chipsets.
Tomorow I'll buy a NEC card

[ Edited by serge on 2006/10/26 22:15 ]

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Ali, NEC, VIa are any others vendors are (or should be) EHCI PCI compatible. Getting a new card won't help IMO.
Most of the issue comes from devices imcompatibility, unlikely from the HC.

[ Edited by NicoPPC on 2006/10/28 14:03 ]

Thanks - the new driver works very good with my NEC based card.

I tested it with a USB flash memory stick, with a card reader for SD flash cards and with a IDE harddisk connected via an USB-to-IDE adaptor.

Only the latter one had some problems when connected directly or via an active HUB, but connected via a passive HUB it works almost perfectly.

My Peg2. MOS 1.4.5 refuses to boot with a VIA usb2 card plugged. It hangs on the morphos splash logo.

Maybe there is a problem with poseidon? ( since it passes well OF screen... )

Try disabling USB in the OF.
"setenv usb-enable? false" or something such (use "printenv" to know the exact variable name).

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it doesn't seem to work here with my VIA card, when i plug a USB2 device it seems to work, i can see it with High Speed features but after a few seconds Poseidon says that the device dropped by itself and disappear.

i'll post a screenshot of the Poseidon message tonight or tomorrow.

I'm not sure i set it up right though. When the device is at the right location, is there something to do in the poseidon settings ?

I've been using it for some time now with an NEC based card. It works great but needed some tweeking to get it just right. I've used several hard drives, my ipod, and lots of flash drives with great success. Let me know if you need some help. I've gotten quite good at making it work and keeping it stable.

Tried disabling the usb setting in the OF with no luck.

Thanks anyway Henes :D

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That is inaccurate the driver was tested with a few VIA chipsets and worked. However, Nico developed it with an NEC card AFAIK. ALI chipsets work nicely as well.

@Acill

Thanks for submitting your report _after_ the release

Can you please post here some tips/advice for users?

magnetic


[ Edited by magnetic on 2006/10/27 12:18 ]

Works here on a VIA card. My NEC card wouldn't even let me access the OF, it's now gone back in my PC...

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Hey I've been out at sea for months man, not easy to make reports! I'll post what i can later this weekend.

What type of speeds are you guys getting compared to the usb1.1 on the mb?

Take care,

Matt

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Its true USB 2.0 or very close. I get more then double from most things. This is a bad weekend for me but I can post some speed results later and show all of you.

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700MB copied in 75s from my external HD

Hello,i have a Spider USB from my old Amiga...and now works.
More things to test and report to this forum.
Mow i have tested a Samsung 512 memory stick and works...but when i copy something i have a dos error and the device dissapear .

I have the same results with my VIA chipset based card:
1) I can configure only one USB HUB (but there's two)
2) When I try to write to a pendrive, a write error requester appears and the device stops working.

I can upload my settings file to anyone having problems. Just send my an email or look for me on IRC and I can DCC it if I am online.

Hi all,

I made several tests here with 3 different USB 2 cards.

I have 2 cards with NEC chipset and they seem to work fine, no problem. The 3rd card has a VIA chipset and this one is
not usable. With this card in the Peg2 it takes a long time to startup and there after it crashes.

Now I tested the 2 cards (with the NEC chipset) with several different USB2 sticks, 2 different card readers and them with
CompactFlash, SD and SmartMedia cards of several sizes without any problems. It seems to work fine and vera faaaaast.

I also tested 2 different 4 port hubs with it and this also seems to work fine. Now one of the hubs when connected to the USB2
card gets hotter then when connected to the on board USB. Also when I leave the USB Stick for some time in the Hub it gets quite hot.
Does anyone know if this is normal?

Else is that when connecting a printer (Epson Stylus Color D88) directely to the card it want mount but when connecting it to the hub
it mounts normally. Any idea?

And even though there are 4 connectors only one seem to work of the external ones but I also connected the internal one and it works.
Any idea?

Here are some error outputs from Poseidon, perhaps this helps any:

Warning-poseidon.library: Reading string descriptor 1 (len 2) failed: illegal parameters specified (11)
Warning-poseidon.library: Reading string descriptor 2 (len 2) failed: illegal parameters specified (11)
Warning-poseidon.library: Reading string descriptor 3 (len 2) failed: illegal parameters specified (11)
Warning-poseidon.library: Reading string descriptor 4 (len 2) failed: illegal parameters specified (11)
Warning-poseidon.library: Reading string descriptor 5 (len 2) failed: illegal parameters specified (11)

I also included an image of the card.

Regards

Christoph

@Acill:

Thanks a lot for your config file! It seems to work now! :)))

Here are some speeds I measured with my USB2.0 Pendrive:

Write: 3.8MB/s
Read: 7.6MB/s

I think they are the maximum speeds of the drive, not the driver. The CPU usage was minimal.

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No problem, the drivers work quite well for an early beta. If anyone else needs any help let me know.

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That's due to the b0rken root hub emulation in the EHCI driver.