StarTech PCI express to PCI adapter works in my X1000

[AmigaDave]

I just put some electrical tape on the metal slot cover to prevent it from shorting anything out on the Ethernet card, as there are some soldered components very near the end of the card where the Ethernet port is located.

You are braver than me! I have a hard time imagining how you can fit a normal PCI card into a PCI-Express adapter, and still have the metal faceplate correctly secured to the case.

Much easier than you would think, since the provided Ethernet card is only a small half-height PCI card that has little weight to it. Since it is the PCI card it has the advantage of the full length of the PCI slot to support it. It is the PCIe adapter that only has a very small slot to fit into for support, which is why it is important that you use the card slot plate screwed to this small adapter card and also screwed to the case, just like any blank card slot plate would be, or a normal PCI, or full PCIe card. Remember, this is a 1x PCIe to PCI slot adapter.

getting my Cubic IDE setup to use the OS4.x SDK's C/C++ compiler

Does that mean you decided to try to learn C/C++??

Yes, at least for now. I may go back to AmigaE and/or PortablE, after the Programming Seminar that is being presented at the 2012 AmiWest Show this Oct.

I have only switched from AmigaE to "C", because the Programming Seminar is being taught in "C". If I had stuck with AmigaE, there is a greater chance that I would be dazed and confused during 99% of the Programming Seminar, and it would be a waste of my time and money, and a frustration for the Programming Seminar presenters. I am going to have a hard enough time as it is to keep up with everyone else in this seminar, but I am determined to get the most out of it and use it as a Kickstart to my goal of learning how to program on and for all flavors of the Amiga experience. I have done some reading in the past, so at least most of the programming terms are familiar to me and I have done some script programming in the past for work, so I am not totally unfamiliar with logical expressions and figuring out how to get things done. Still, I am sure it will be a challenge for me, but you have to start somewhere and this Programming Seminar at the 2012 AmiWest Show is the perfect motivation to get me working harder on improving my miniscule programming skills.

@Mechanic,

Thanks for the PMail, but unless I am mistaken, Code Bench and Cubic IDE are two different things.

I found an older article written by someone that is supposed to explain how to setup Cubic IDE to use the latest OS4.x SDK, but I could not follow the step-by-step instructions without running into trouble with error messages from my Cubic IDE installation program. The instructions explain that Cubic IDE must be installed first, INCLUDING the C/C++ component included with Cubic IDE, but when installing Cubic IDE on an OS4.x computer, the installation program complains that Hyperion does not allow the OS4.x SDK to be included with the Cubic IDE CDROM and the contents of the SDK must first be copied to a directory named ????.os4.sdk.53.15, or something like that. It was around 3 am this morning when I was trying to re-install everything for the third time.

[ddni]

Success with setting up the PCIe to PCI adapter and my 9250.
I had to move the 4850 to the second x16 PCIe slot as it was blocking the uppermost x1PCIe slot.

So far this has does not seem to have caused any issues. Should I expect some, or do both x16 PCIe slots function equally under OS4.1u5?

[ChrisH]

Should I expect some, or do both x16 PCIe slots function equally under OS4.1u5?

I think this was mentioned by the X1000 documentation? As I recall both work, but if you use a card in each PCI-Express slot then both slots work at half speed (effectively each becomes x8 instead of x16). I'm not aware of any other issue...

[328gts]

well I finally got around to installing my StarTech board tonight and after an initial guru scare after I stupidly put it into the video card slot next to the Pa6t DOUBLE DOH , I put into the proper slot in front of my HD4670 and voila my 8139B ethernet card booted up like normal

thanks again Mike for being the pioneer on this card for us ..now where did I put my CWMK4+ again?!

[BandiT]

Hi 328gts, which 8169 card are you using? do you ever get random lockups with this card? Im using a Netgear GA311 (8169 chip) and I get complete lockups, have to hardreset.

well I finally got around to installing my StarTech board tonight and after an initial guru scare after I stupidly put it into the video card slot next to the Pa6t DOUBLE DOH , I put into the proper slot in front of my HD4670 and voila my 8169 ethernet card booted up like normal

[328gts]

Hi 328gts, which 8169 card are you using? do you ever get random lockups with this card? Im using a Netgear GA311 (8169 chip) and I get complete lockups, have to hardreset.

Oops sorry for the type o i'm actually using a no name low profile RTL 8139B NIC card (see my sig for my full setup). So far no lock ups here & working great

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