Re: Transmeta Crusoe + Hitachi Microdrive = no good?

Hi Slobodan,

There are no problems with the hardware itself since it works with CF. I
have also tried other identical boards, same things there.
There are no drivers for microdrive included in the images that I´m testing
now.
The only 3rd party drivers in the image would be C&T 69000 (VGA)
componentized, but should not be the reason for this (?), the same drivers
are used for the CF image. Again, the microdrive works fine on other
platform.

This has something to do with the combination of Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 &
Hitachi Microdrive.
I found some old notes that I made before when I built the working image,
but I can´t seem to find the right combination now.
I get the exact same error regardless how I mix them.
These are some of the components I played with and I know some are critical,
maybe you can see the solution:

Class installer - Processors
Class installer - System Devices
Device : DiskDrive
Device : hdc
Device : Processor
IBM Microdrive
Transmeta Crusoe

Unfortunately this is all documentation I have left (yes, I know that I
should document and keep them in a good place. And I promise I will in the
future.)

Otherwise, are there some ways I can find out what happens? I assume there
will not be a ntbtlog.txt or setupapi.log since it won´t go that far? Is it
worth try debugging? I have windbg.
Please advise.

Thanks in advance,

Rob


"Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
news:%23IP4FC5WFHA.3176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Rob,
>
>> Progress bar freezes after just a second (the blue bar just moves from
>> left to the right and freezes there). HDD-LED is litten at all time, but
>> I can´t see any activity. It can just stay there for hours.
>
> This is very veird and unusual problem in case that hardware (processor,
> memory) is non mailfunctioning.
>
>> The drive is now, and by default marked as, "Removable", but can be
>> "fixed" in run-time. I remember that I tried to make it fixed by
>> including drivers for that before, but then it hung loading that driver.
>
> This is the reason why I asked. Since the highest probability for system
> freeze is some third-party driver and my guess was that you put filter
> driver for microdrive.
> Are you sure that you removed it correctly from registry if it was in your
> image?
>
> Any other non-MS drivers in your image?
>
> Regards,
> Slobodan
>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> BR,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:eTcejv4WFHA.3584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>> Could you explain the freeze little closely?
>>> BSOD and numbers on the screen.
>>> Infinite boot.
>>> Progress bar is frozen and nothing happen for infinite time?
>>>
>>> Also is this microdrive fixed or removable?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Slobodan
>>>
>>> "The Rob" <therob88@[hotmail].com> wrote in message
>>> news:dPDie.24623$d5.172843@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Hi group!
>>>>
>>>> I am once again facing the problem with the Transmeta Crusoe processor
>>>> in combination with a Hitachi Microdrive 2GB.
>>>>
>>>> I have read a lot of threads in newsgroups about problems with either
>>>> Transmeta or Microdrive, but no solutions.
>>>>
>>>> 3 months ago I built an image (using SP1) and made two identical
>>>> drives, one was delivered and the 2nd I kept.
>>>>
>>>> Board config looked like this back then: IEI Wafer-6820-733 MHz 128MB
>>>>
>>>> Now I´m trying the 2nd drive on a IEI Wafer-6820-800 MHz 256MB, but it
>>>> won´t work!
>>>>
>>>> It boots, but freezes just in the beginning of the Windows boot splash
>>>> screen before FBA.
>>>>
>>>> When I first made the build there were a lot of problems before I got
>>>> it to work. I tried with several builds (added one or two more
>>>> components each time) until it finally worked and today I can´t
>>>> remember exactly which component made it work (even though I made
>>>> notes). I also saved the different builds and have tried them again,
>>>> but no luck.
>>>>
>>>> The "funny" thing is that it works perfectly with a 512 MB CF from
>>>> SanDisk, SDCFB-512-201-80 (and yes, the image is a little different;
>>>> boot partition size etc.)
>>>>
>>>> Also, the same MicroDrive works on a completely different platform, IEI
>>>> Rocky-3732EV with dual Pentium III.
>>>>
>>>> So, my question is, is the problem Transmeta or Microdrive related? Is
>>>> it so that the Transmeta processor is so special I must run TAP on each
>>>> board with different cpu speed or RAM size? What components MUST I have
>>>> for Microdrive + Transmeta and which should I NOT have?
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions are appreciated, this is driving me crazy.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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