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From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Help! Problem withA3000 (something blew)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:26:50 GMT

I was building this video amplifier to connect my TV to my new Framegrabber.
Well, to make a long story short (pardon my cliche), The composite video
input to the framegrabber was exposed to wall-voltage...

Something seems to have blown on my computer.  When I turn it on, the lights
and stuff come on, but nothing happens.  The screen is black, and it just
never boots.

Well, the framgrabber is connected from the 23 pin video out from the Amiga
and also through the parallel port.

Does anyone have any idea what the first thing to blow out would be in such a
case?  (I don't know if the framegrabber works or not).  I haven't yet opened
the thing up to look inside and test some stuff.  I will probably do that
soon, but I was wondering if anything like this had happened to anyone else.

Many thanks.
keith

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: robbins@iastate.edu (James D. Robbins)
Subject: Where can I find cheap 68882s???
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:01:48 GMT

I'm broke!!  I need to find a company that sells cheap 68882 PLCCs.  
HELP!!!!

  
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From: orre@thalamus.sans.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Subject: A3000 Power Supply
Reply-To: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:14:07 GMT

A friend has recently come from US to Europe. He brought his A3000 and
will stay here for a while.
Is it easy to change the power supply from 110 V to 220 V ?

What I mean with easy is to just replace a few components or so. As
there seem to be no selector for this. I suppose the supply is not
autoranging.  I don't have any documentation on the power supply for
any Amiga but I suppose these are not CBM why they are not included in
the techical ref.

Roland Orre.
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From: dalbec@clavin.Eng.Sun.COM (Gabe Dalbec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Cheap A3000 acceleration?
Keywords: A3000, accel
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:22:47 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: clavin


On these same lines, what ever happend to the supposed Cache
card for the 3000.  I had heard that some german company had
made a large cache for the A3000 that gave a great speed boost
for the price.

-Gabe Dalbec
dalbec@clavin.eng.sun.com
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From: khan@cheshire.oxy.edu (Onnie Lynn Winebarger)
Subject: hard disk problems
Summary: Ozone smells... 
Keywords: help!
 
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:43:08 GMT

  A hard disk I know has been giving me some problems.  Mainly a "fixed disk
error" and smells of ozone being produced.  The hard disk is in a IBM ps/2
owned by the library I'm working for, and other than that, I have no idea
what kind/brand of hard disk it is.  I know this isn't an IBM group of any 
sort, but I own and use an Amiga and have noticed that most posters here have
a good working knowledge of IBM and/or Macs (but just prefer Amigas :).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lynn
khan@cheshire.oxy.edu 
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From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Subject: Re: Archiver Viper 150 MB Tape Drive
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:20:22 GMT
Reply-To: crash%ckctpa@tct.com (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Organization: Edwards & Edwards Consulting

grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba) writes:
>In article I wrote:
>>Throw out those DC600A's or see if you can sell them!
>
>I hope that if you do sell them that you don't hide the fact mentioned
>above.  If you do, then you're no better that those corporations who
>dump unsafe, if not deadly, consumer items not approved in the US to
>third world countries who doesn't know (aren't given) the fact(s).

Huh?  I was receommending that the original poster NOT use DC600's or
DC600A's in his Archive Viper 2150S because that was 3M's word on it.
Selling those tapes to someone who has a QIC-120 (or a 60MB unit)
where the tapes were _designed_ to be used would not be a problem for
anyone, including third world countries.

BTW, I always give full facts when I sell an item as used.  When I
sold my last car I had a list of half a dozen things that needed
repair/work to put the vehicle in tip-top shape, and it was given to
the new owner -- before he made the purchase.

>George (from the Philippines--a third world country)
>BTW, I know what caveat emptor means.

Good.
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From: evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (M.BiSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum 420's
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:58:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept

I am getting a quantum 420, and I am interested in experiences people
have had with this drive.  It seems some quantum HD's have some trouble..is
the 420 one of them?  or does it work great? Btw, what is its ms rating?

I am buying a reconditioned one, at such a good price, I didn't bother
to ask!  Thanks in advance...

-MIC
From: achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AMIGA ROOKIE NEEDS HELP FAST!!!
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: achim@video1.bs.open.de  (Joachim Gothe)
Organization: Mix Broadcast Video and Computer
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1

In article <1992Aug20.134057.1@wharton.upenn.edu>, poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:

>Hello Amiga users.

Hello,

[...]
>He wants to buy a 200+ MB SCSI HD for his A3000, and was ready to purchase
>a Quantum LPS 210S from a store in the US (for $659!). I told him that they
>have come out with the much improved LPS 240S, but he was told by the salesman
>that the 240 will NOT work with the A3000. Can anyone confirm or deny this? He

I used a 210S in my A3000. One month ago, I changed it for a LPS240 to
get more room for a third Drive.
The LPS210 work perfectly in my A3000 and it is about 30% faster than 210S.

[...]
>2nd thing: He wants a monitor to go with his computer, and was looking
>at the Sony CPD1302 and CPD1304. Can anyone tell me the difference?
>I think the 1302 has 640x480 resolution and may be interlaced, as
>opposed to the 1304 with 1024x768 and NI. Will both of these monitors
>work with the A3000? Any suggestions for multi-sync monitors?

The 1302 is a VGA-only monitor and work only at the flicker-fixed output
of the A3000 or the A2320. The 1304 is a Multisync and also run at the
Video-output of an A500/600/2000

Hope it helps,

Achim

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From: wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: LUN 1 SCSI device
Summary: Do LUNs work with GVP SCSI?
Keywords: LUN, GVP, SCSI
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:13:58 GMT
Organization: IGD FHG Darmstadt, FRG

In article <1992Aug11.210555.28082@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> sullivan@bulean.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>>  In the world of SCSI there is no such thing as a LUN of ANYTHING other
>> than 0. ...
>
>Ah ahem, excuse me. I think that you must be mistaken. Multi-LUN
>devices work just fine on my A3000, A2000+HardFrame, and A500+A590
>(rev 6.6 ROM). There are 2 parts to a scsi address... the scsi unit
>and the LUN, which may be thought of as a subaddress with a range
>from 0 to 8.
>
>	-SES

Hi,

just a short question: Do LUNs work for GVP SCSI controllers, too? If yes,
with which of them (Series I or II, ROM rev.)?

Greetings,
		Hanno


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From: ml@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au
Subject: Help!  Floppy disk problem.
Organization: 
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:23:56 GMT

G'day,


I have a problem.  Below is the configuration of my Amiga:
	Amiga 3000
	6MB RAM
	50MB HDD
	880KB FDD
	NEC 3D Multisync Monitor.

What my problem is in increasing my RAM from 2MB to 6MB, somehow my floppy disk
drive (FDD) is playing up.  That is, the RAM seems alright after powering up,
but the FDD light is always on even after rebooting.  It must be said I
installed the RAM myself (the warranty has long since gone), but I did pretty
much what the handbook has, step by step.  I checked the wiring of the FDD and
it seems correct and there are no error messages and the like.

Has anyone got any ideas?  Otherwise, I might have to take it into the computer
shop (Maxwells in Abbotsford, Vic., Australia) and I'm a bit nervous about
that.

Please, e-mail me.



Yours desperately,
Mik.

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From: shane@peeker.uucp (Shane R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Minor Annoyances with SyQuest drive
Date: 12 Aug 1992 13:57:16 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <ma3mz1k.djmccoy@netcom.com> djmccoy@netcom.com (Daniel J. McCoy) writes:

> At the local Amiga dealer, they've got a GVP 33MHz equipped 2000 and an 
> external SyQuest.  Turning the system on without turning the SyQuest on gives
> the wonderful "Insert Workbench" screen.  I also seem to remember their 3000
> having problems when a SyQuest was connected (with no cartridge).  I'll have
> to ask if they've come up with a solution.

   I also have a GVP 33MHZ combo board and an external syquest.  I also have
an internal HD (boot drive), external HD and an external CD-ROM connected to
the Combo board.  I have no problems when booting up my system.  Regardles if
I have the drives turned on, cartridge/CD not inserted.  Any combination
you can imagine.  Because my internal HD is a boot drive, I have no delay
in booting.  I issue GVPSCSICTRL -R to rescan the bus at the end of my
User-Startup to rescan the bus incase any of my other drives fail to spin
up in time at the start of the boot process.  At one time I could not boot
my system when the syquest was turned off.  To solve that, I removed the
SCSI terminator from the syquest.  You may need to experiment with the SCSI
terminators in your HD's to get a working combination.

   I think the GVP series II to be a reliable and configurable controller.
MY CD-ROM does not like to share the SCSI bus. GVP FaaaastPrep allows you
to set reselection off in the RDB to solve the problem.  Well a CD you can
not set the RDB so GVPSCSICTRL can be used to turn of reselection.  My
external HD is actually a MFM drive connected to an Adaptec 4000 MFM-SCSI
contoller.  At one time I needed to issue the mount command for this drive
but the GVP can write and read the RDB on this drive now (auto-mounting).
The only restriction being that this drive has to be unit 0.  With multiple
drives I would need to wait for all the drives to be recognized before the
boot process would continue.  Now as soon as it finds a boot drive ready,
she rips.  I guess you could say I am a happy customer.  I just wish they
would have more people answering the phone.  Maybe all this time I was
beta testing there voice-mail system:-)



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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Cheap A3000 acceleration?
Date: 17 Aug 92 08:53:54 GMT
Organization: BBS

Someone suggested to me that it might be feasible to accelerate an
A3000 much more inexpensively than with an '040 board, by hacking a
50 mHz CPU onto the motherboard.  My question is, does anybody have
some knowledge, or at least some well-informed speculation, on (a)
how feasible this is, and (b) how much performance boost one would
get?  Somehow I doubt it would really speed things up much, since the
memory can't go much faster than it does now.  I think someone said
one can change the 80ns zips for 70ns and cut out a wait state when
using an '040 board, but beyond that Ramsey won't go.  So memory
intensive apps might only speed up by a third, maybe, instead of
doubling in speed?
 
Other possibility -- is Motorola yet making, or RSN making, cheap
'040s without floating point?  Might such become available in cheap
accelerators with three digit prices?  Would it be at all possible to
use the motherboard FPU for occasional floating point while using an
add-on board for the regular CPU?

PLEASE REPLY BY EMAIL ONLY
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: address range of 2.0 kick
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:54:28 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

anm@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Andreas Mueller) writes:
>Hi,
>could someone please post the address range (start and end) of the
>kickstart 2.0 and kickstart 1.3

Well, it really should not matter to you where the kickstart is.  However
since you asked so nicely, I will tell you the current locations/ranges
that these use.  This does not mean that it will not change or be different
on newer machines.

Kickstart V34 and below (also known as pre-2.0) is at $00FC0000 to $00FFFFFF
Kickstart V37 and up (so far) is at $00F80000 to $00FFFFFF

Again, this is not set in stone anywhere and should not be used in any
software that is distributed as it may change at any time on any machine.
This is why we always deal with the ExecBase and the libraries.  The exact
address of the ROM is not needed and may not even be ROM...

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From: pcrayne@odie.santarosa.edu (Pete Crayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Can't zkick 2.0
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:42:39 GMT
Organization: Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

I am experiencing a minor problem. I am unable to get OS 2.0 running on my
2000 with zkick and and a kickfile.

This isn't a big problem, as I wouldn't actually use this on a serious basis,
But I want to buy the real 2.0 roms and I need to know if it will work.

Here's the details:
I have an amiga-2000 rev 6.something.
Supra wordsync-2000 with a quantum 52lps
an xt bridgeboard.
Supra 2400zi modem
GVP Series II a2000-Ram8 ram card with 2 megs on-board & 6 (empty) simm sockets.

When I use zkick to load the kickfile (with verbose mode on) it does a bunch
of configuring & linking and right after it says "linking 1 ram boards" it 
gurus.  When I get the roms, will this problem persist, or is it just a zkick
thing? The ram all test out ok, with various testers (including the one it 
came with.) 
If the 2.0 roms won't work with my ram card, I'd rather just skip it & buy some
simms or something (money's tight).

Oh yeah! Another strange thing. Sysinfo 2.7 says that I have a gvp scsi controller & a supra scsi controller. The ram card doesn't have a scsi controller (unless it's well hidden). Is this part of the problem?
TIA all.

-Pete
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dblancha@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Blanchat)
Subject: A1000 system lockup
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 16:38:55 GMT

I've got an Amiga 1000 with a Starboard II ram/scsi board, Turbo Amiga
68020/68881 board, Rejuvenator with ECS agnus, and 1.3 in rom.

My problem is when I leave the system running for any length of time (greater
than about an hour), if I turn the monitor off, when I turn it back on, the 
system will lock up, and flash a green screen, or a grey screen with twelve
flashes of the power light...does anyone know what I can do to fix this problem
or what is causing it?

Dan
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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 having problems
Keywords: Lights flashing
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:44:22 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <Aug.14.14.51.13.1992.20447@pilot.njin.net> hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) writes:

>My A3000 is beginning to have problems. Every once in a while, the
>screen freezes up, then the power light starts flashing
>and the screen alternates between green and tan or sometimes
>just flashes green on and off.

>What is this an indication of ? A hardware problem ?

That depends.  If this activity only happens when a certain program is running,
you could of course have serious suspicions about the program.  You can 
eliminate OS programs, but make sure that nothing else could be causing this in
software.

This could be an indication of something wrong with your hardware.  As with any
such intermittent problem, the cause is often mechanical.  Perhaps one of the 
socketed chips in your system has worked its way out of its socket a bit.  Or
maybe a pin's bent on one of the DRAMs on the Chip or Fast RAM bus, but its
still making partial contact.  Maybe an expansion board isn't firmly seated.
These kinds of things get worse with time, as the contacts oxidize causing
resistance between them to increase.

-- 
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From: BYRNE@MUPPET.dnet.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: New A3000T ?!?
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:49:44 GMT


        Sorry if this has been kicked around before but I don't get the news
anymore since amiga-relay went away.  I was looking through the Sept. '92 
issue of Amiga World and I saw an ad for the new A3000T.  I didn't
notice at first but there was a picture of an '040.  When I read the article I
saw that it said it was a 25 MHz '040 and '882. Why do you need an '882?  Is
the '040 a coprocessor board?  Thanks,

                                -FB
From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1000 Bad Combo?  Help!
Date: 22 Aug 92 13:27:58 GMT
Organization: Not Organized


Well, for the first time (in 7 yfears!) I have a hardware problem.  I 
have an A1000 with a Phoenix expansion chassis on it.  In the Phoenix, I 
have a dataflyer SCSI interface, and plugged onto the bus extender of the 
Phoenix I have a Minimegs 2 meg memory expansion.

This arrangement has worked perfectly from the very first.

In my zeal to never leave good enough alone, I bought an A2052 2 meg 
card, and pulled the Minimegs off the bus extender.  With the memory card 
in the expansion chassis, the system won't boot - in fact, the screen 
won't even light up.

With the memory card alone in the expansion chassis, the system boots and 
sees the memory...  it even let me put the Minimegs on the bus extender, 
and for a little while, I had nearly 5 megs of memory on my little A1000!

Any ideas anyone?  Does anyone else out there have/use a Phoenix card 
cage?

(BTW, I have grounded my PALs)

bob
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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drive  Info requested...
Summary: I don't know what I'm letting myself in for... 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 03:20:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.122542.58081@cc.usu.edu> slfvd@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein) writes:
>I am try to select a good CD-ROM drive for an Amiga 3000.  I am having trouble
>locating alot of information in one spot!  Anybody have any suggestions on who
>or where I can get a CD-ROM drive w/driver etc...  Phone numbers or company
>names would be appreciated...  Jeff   slfvd@cc.usu.edu

Well, I'm letting myself in for it, but... I have a file, about 46K now,
which is just made up of messages which have gone by on c.s.a.misc or
c.s.a.hardware over the past year or so, which deal with CD-ROM drives on
the Amiga, specifically the cheap DAK deal.  I make no warranty that this
info is complete, or suitable for everyday use - but there's a lot of
specific and useful stuff there.  It's just messages that seemed like stuff
I'd want to know when I finally got around to buying my own drive, so I've
been saving it.  This includes reviews of all major CDROM driver software
packages, various compatibility charts, firsthand impressions of various
drives, etc. etc. 

Anyone who wants this file, go ahead and mail me and I'll ship it out.
Remember, 46K, plain ASCII text.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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