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From: wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Again SUMMARY: Internal serial port of A2000
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:17:45 GMT
Organization: IGD FHG Darmstadt, FRG

Hi there, again,

it seems I was a bit quick in posting a summary after getting some answers
to my posting. After that, many more people sent email to me or posted articles
in c.s.a.h. Thanks to them, too. The only thing that bugs me: there were only
answers that confirmed the first two emails:

	*There is no second serial port on A2000s*

Thank you again,

	Hanno

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From: rzv30@amail.amdahl.com (Rene' A. Vega)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: null-modem-cable : how to make ?
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:34:10 GMT
Reply-To: rzv30@ivorytower.amdahl.com (Rene' A. Vega)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

Stefan Rensing writes:
> Does anybody know how to make a correct null-modem-cable ?
>
>I tried connecting GND-GND, SHIELD-SHIELD and cross-connecting
>TXD-RXD but it doesn't work.
>
>What else do I have to connect ?



The null modem adapter I bought for $6.00 is wired as follows:

  1   -   1
  2   -   3
  3   -   2
  4,5 -   8
  6   -  20
  7   -   7
  8   -   4,5
 20   -   6

This works fine with all combinations of IBM PCs, Macs, Amigas, 
and Atari portfolios.



Rene' A. Vega    
Computer & Systems Architecture
*** My opinions, not my employers ***
From: thomas@diku.dk (Thomas Nikolajsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Very strange DF0: problem
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:13:30 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

jmayer@bloch.informatik.uni-kl.de (Joerg Mayer (HiWi Buhler)) writes:

>> Here's an odd problem: a few days ago my DF0: stopped reading, writing, and
>> formatting Amiga disks.  However, it still reads and writes MS-DOS disks 
>> using MessyDOS.
..
>A reason I can imagine is, that the drive recognition at system startup time
>fails (i.e. trackdisk doesn't recognize unit 0 is present). I don't know how
>MessyDOS works, but if it doesn't use trackdisk (RAW-commands of course) and
>relies on the information provided in the mountlist it will simply try to use
>it.
..
>Joerg

MessyDOS' messydisk.device DOES use trackdisk.device,
it is used for reading (RAWREAD) and stepping (SEEK).
So, the problem could be other parts of trackdisk.device, the filesystem or..

- thomas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: andersen@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Kai Andersen)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  16MHz A3000 to 25MHz  (!)  Hardware "Hack"
Keywords: 16MHz, 25MHz, Amiga, 3000, hardware, hack, upgrade, speed, increase
Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,EIS,West Germany
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:16:31 GMT

> This isn't really necessary.
> I have a 16MHz A3000 witch is 'upgraded' to 25MHz *without* changing
> the 68030 CPU. A 16MHz CPU is reliable also with 25MHz.
> *My* Amiga works since about nearly two years without any problems.

> I think it's saver to use a 16MHz CPU with 25MHz (a 16MHz 68030 *is* a
> 25MHz 68030, but only testet up to 16MHz), than to remove a SMD CPU.

I tried to 'upgraded' my A3000-16 too, with 20 MHz all works fine.
With 25 MHz the Processor does too, but the harddrive sometimes reads some
false bytes. Does anyone knows why?

Kai.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rlippert@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ryan Jon Lippert)
Subject: SupraFax 14.4 QUESTIONS!
Originator: rlippert@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:52:51 GMT

Greetings Netters,
I finally got my hands on a Suprafax 14.4! And I LOVE IT! But the reason
I am writing this is that I seem to be having trouble connecting to some
bbs in my area.The wierd part is that the modems are HST DS'S! Whats the deal?
I though i can connect to them,atleast at 9600! I can connect to some but
not others,also I can connect to SOME compucoms at HIGHER baud rates and not
others. WHY?? Is there something wrong on my side? Do I have to set something?
Does the other modem have to set something so I can connect?? Will the NEW
Supra Roms FIX these problems?? Well if you know the answers PLEASE let 
everyone know!!! Thanks...
From: dwong@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum LPS120 Woes... 8^(
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:53:33 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Hi Netfolk,

Well I've just sent my Quantum LPS120 drive back to get repaired/replaced for
the second time.  I bought the drive from our University Computer Centre in
April and since then I've had problems.  The problems occur at cold boot time,
the drive seems to "think" its spun up but when AmigaDOS boots from the drive I
get read (and Gackk! write errors) and the odd checksum error.  I wait for
about half a minute to a minute or so, I warm boot the machine and if I'm
lucky the machine will boot up without a hitch.  From then the drive seems to
behave well and I have no further "phantom" errors.  This problem has occurred
on both the original drive and the replacement.  Last night things came to a
head and the drive seemed to munge things severely.  These reported read/write
errors do not physically exist on disk - I've checked a number of times...

BTW, my hardware setup -:
Amiga B2000/1 MB Agnus/Std. Denise
Microbotics 8UP! Memory board popl. to 2MB
Microbotics HardFrame SCSI controller with v1.9 Driver ROMs (latest version
from what I know).

Strangely enough, the drive that was going to be replaced by the Quantum
currently being returned/serviced is being used in my machine right now - 
guess what sort of drive it is...  a Seagate 8^)

Are these types of problems commonplace with the LPS drives or am I just plain
unlucky in this case.  Can anyone share any similar experiences...   Thanks
very much.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum LPS120 Woes...
From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Date: 13 Aug 92 06:43:00 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Aug13.125334.10068@waikato.ac.nz>, dwong@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> Hi Netfolk,
> 
> 
> Are these types of problems commonplace with the LPS drives or am I just plain
> unlucky in this case.  Can anyone share any similar experiences...   Thanks
> very much.
>
	I have an LPS105, it is working fine, although I did lay my hand on
	top of it once when I had the computer open.  It seemed awful hot
	to the touch.  I also have a P40S drive that came with the computer,
	it is also working fine.

	The first LPS105 I got was bad and had to be sent back. 
> -- 
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> | Computer Science Dept.         | while we're waiting for everybody else to, |
> | University of Waikato,         | come around to our way of thinking, I      |
> | Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND.         | think we've found a way that it could be...|
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (Arnold Schmedlap)
Subject: QIC Backup and Amiback 2.0e:  HHHEEELLLPPP!!!!
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:27:04 GMT

Ok Netters.... I have Amiback 2.0e recognizing the Tanberg QIC drive
but when I try to back it up I get the following requester which pops
up:

Errror Writing to Backup Tape.
SCSI: Illegal Request

Retry         Backtrack

What is the problem? I've tried just about every combo I can think of
witht the prefs in the program but I can quite get it. I've tried to 
format the tape (maybe I thought) but it wouldn't. 
Do I need to mount the drive in my mountlist?

Heres my setup:

Amiga 2000     9megs Ram       52Meg Quantum HD  
2400 Modem   
MR '020 w/ 25mhz 68882 

Again, anyhelp would be appreciated. I also have BTN but I guess I
am not too literate. I cant make heads or tails of it. HELP!!

-- 
                       Amiga 2000     9megs Ram       52Meg Quantum HD  
loyd@seq.uncwil.edu    Supra 2400 Modem         Sony KV-1311CR Monitor 
                       MR '020 w/ 25mhz 68882     Epson LQ-510 Printer
From: richardc@vogue.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum hard drives: A Tale of Woe and Heavy Sarcasm.
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:08:21 GMT
Organization: Amiga Developer (GPSoftware ACM093)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Aug7.230318.5487@endicor.com> tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna) writes:

> We recently purchased a Quanum 120 meg SSCI disk. It was used briefly as

> In conclusion, I would just like to say the single most damning and
> nasty thing I could ever imagine saying to a hard disk manufacturer:
> "You caused me more problems than Seagate".

When using the new LPS drives, MAKE SURE you get a 5.6 or greater firmware
revision.

There's a bug in the Quantum ROM causing timing problems... I have a 4.6
and no problems - using it with a ProDrive 80S and Commodore 3070 tape drive.

> Ty Sarna



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Subject: Can I use A2000 CPU slot mem. on B2000 board?
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Queens Univ., Kingston, Ontario, Can.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:07:16 GMT

I have an A2000 (German motherboard) with 512K "slow-fast" RAM in the CPU
slot.  I just got a B2000 motherboard, and I was wondering if I could get an
extra 512K of mem. by putting the A2000 SLOW-FAST mem. in the B2000 mother-
board CPU slot.  Would this harm the B2000 board?

Thank you.



-- 
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Semi-competent       | Akerman@QUCdnAst.BITNET     | One pretend sheep!
 Graduate Student in Computer Science              | Two pretend sheep! ...
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada      |            - The Count
From: bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Question about vxl-32 ram
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:08:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

I own a vxl-030 40mhz no-copro. The question is : Is 2mb 32bit memory
enough to use the system ? Does it leave some memory after the
ks 2.04 is copied in memory ? What would be the gain to have 8mb 32bit ?

							Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kamran@pizzabox.dialogic.com (Kamran Vaziri)
Subject: Re: Installing 2.04 ROMSs in rev 5 A500
Organization: Dialogic Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:31:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.031608.17815@dialogic.com> kamran@pizzabox.dialogic.com (Kamran Vaziri) writes:
>I just purchased the 2.04 ROMs from Grapevine and they don't seem to work in
>my A500 with a rev 5 motherboard.  They sent instructions with it that said
>I had to solder a jumper from pin 1 to pin 31 of the ROM for rev 5 machines.
>I did this.  It also said that I have to bend pin 31 up so that it doesn't
>connect to the socket.  Is this correct??  It doesn't seem to make sense.
 <stuff deleted>

Thanks for all the replies!!  The problem has been solved!  It seems to be
working ok for now.

Phone: eves (908) 580-1526
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From: DBQ@cup.portal.com (DONN FREDRICK DUBUQUE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Supra Fax Modem, The Company And Their Services
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:51:00 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I thought you might be interested in some 'real world' tests of three
of the more popular modem types:  USR HST/DS(14.4k), SupraFax 14.4K,
and the ZyXel U-1496e Faxmodem.

Both the USR and ZyXel were far more tolerant of line noise and distortion
than the Supra.  The USR and ZyXel used the proper V.32/v.32b train 
sequence.  50% of all connect attempts between the USR and Supra resulted
in a 'lost' call, another 25% were downsped to 12K.  Out of over 100 calls,
the ZyXel failed to connect with the USR once.  

The outcome?  For the sysop buyer, the ZyXel at $299 is only slightly
more than the SupraFax, and Zero One (the US distributor) gaurentees
2 week delievery for Sysop orders.  If you waited only 2 months for
the Supra, be glad of that, as the average wait time for USR Sysops
is growing from an average of 10 weeks to over 12 at the moment.  Some
have reported waiting as long as 4 months this year (I myself was just
shy of 5 months/20 weeks last year waiting for mine).  Current sysop
price of $449 for the newest HST/DS/v.small Faxmodem is fairly high
but nesseary if you need to support HST (those in Fidonet may need to,
I do as my 'hub' has a 16.8HST non-DS, and transferring 2 megs of mail
a day at 2400 doesn't cut it.  

I'd go with a ZyXel the next time out, but for now I'll be selling my
older HST/DS for more money than I will spend on the new 'v.fast' faxmodem
model, so my investment has been made secure.

However, the ZyXel is upgradable to v.fast also, and in fact the v.32b/extende
16.8K will be released within the next few weeks.  Designed like Supras,
that rely upon a non-programmable DSP chipset won't be able to upgrade
without extensive modification.  

BTW, I've also owned 3 older Supras, two 2400's and one 2400+/v.42b, and
all of them have had various lockup problems now and again.  In over 16 months
of continuous operation the USR has never had a problem.  Over 10 months of
operation and neither has the ZyXel.
From: ugro@bdb.bs.open.de (Uwe Grossert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:MegaChip 2000
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:13:00 GMT
Organization: BDB * Die Z-NETZ Box in Braunschweig (Germany)

> From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
> Subject: MegaChip 2000
> Message-ID: <LcQtr*AN0@caleb.UUCP>
> Organization: is sometimes desirable
> 
> I just installed the MegaChip 2000 and Super Denise in my rev 4.x A2000.  It all
> seems to be working fine - except RAD: no longer survives reboot.  Does anyone
> out there know what is wrong?  How do I fix it?
> 
> My system is:
> 
> DOS 1.32

Hi Jim

Under Kickstart v1.3 you have to set in s:startup-sequence the command
"SETPATCH R".
The R-option will survive RAD: reboots.

Uwe

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From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: tons 'o questions...
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:48:55 GMT

890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:

>Okay, here's a couple of questions...

>First of all.  My friend gave me a 20 Meg drive (I wonder why...20 megs
>is almost useless now!), and it's ESDI.  I know they made ESDI controllers

EEEKKK!!! ESDI!!! ewww!! spray some raid on it and throw it away!!
It can contaminate you!! Look!! You're sprouting two communication
ports!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

hmmm...better save some pennies like me, or you'll end up getting
an scsi controller for that esdi drive (a'la adaptec).

>for the Amiga (I own a 500) at one point, but do they still??  I got one
>priced at over $600!!  That's crazy!!  I can buy a 120 Meg SCSI/IDE drive
>for less than that!!  If anyone can, please E-mail me some info.

Well... then only way that I would know of is using a setup like the
one used by ALF, an IBM controller adaptor :) or using an adaptec
thingy with an scsi host adaptor. Not the most efficient thing in the
world :(

>Also, the new "Super Denise"...does this just plop into the Denise socket,
>or what??  

Or what. :)  Yup, you just plop it into the older denise socket. I don't
know it the newer modes can be used without an ultra-super-obese-fatter
agnus, that question's for someone else. (Dave?)

>Is it "plopable" into a flicker-fixer?  Any knowledge would
>be appreciated.

I don't know why'd you want to plop it into a FF, it won't do any good
there (unless you'd like to explain what you meant by that).

>And finally, can you just pop out the Fat Agnus and pop in the Fatter Agnus
>(1 Meg).  I know the 2 Meg requires a new board, but I wasn't sure of 
>the 1 Meg.

Hmmm... I think you can plip out the 512K fat agnus and plop in a 1meg agnus
in it's place, but you need to have the 1 meg ram in your machine at the
proper address range, and also cut some traces on the board (or do some
jumpers).

>If possible, please E-mail me the info, if anyone can.
>Thanks in advance.
>-Doc


-Gus
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From: joel@crpi.UUCP (Joel C. Justen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Supra Fax Modem Questions
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:51:29 EST
Organization: Crazyrat Software Productions
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Aug12.072142.3787@uwm.edu>, Ryan Jon Lippert writes:

> Hello fellow Amigans!
> Just a few questions for ya. Does ANYONE like there Supra fax 14.4's????
> Seems like ALOT of people are having problems with them. Whats the deal?
> I talked to Supra today, and they said if you are registered you WILL get the
> new rom (They said this month sometime! HORAY!) SO hopefully most of the 
> problem will be resolved! Also what Term program(s) seem to work best with
> it? What should I put the settings at for the HIGHEST speed possible? And
> how do i get my TERM program to go over 14.4(Actually how do i get 14.4?)?
> Thanx for the help! }:)

I really like my Supra and have had few problems with it.  The modem does
"lock up" occasionally, but all that takes is a power reset.  It also stays
pretty warm, but unless it dies, I'm not going to worry about the heat.

I'm patiently waiting for the new chipset to arrive from Supra though.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: abend@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu (dan edward abend)
Subject: Hardware test utilities
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:38:19 GMT

Are there any utilities available which test the Amiga's custom chips
such as Paula, Denise, Gary, Agnes, and the gang?

Dan Abend (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu)				AMIGAphile
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: maximum A3000 speed
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:58:01 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Aug18.074524.4515@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> staferne@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Stefan Taferner) writes:
>Hi folks !

>My question is: what is the possible upper bound for accelerating
>the A3000. 

Safely?  25MHz is it.  If you go to a faster crystal, you're asking for
trouble from the A3000 system chips (Gary, RAMSEY, Buster, DMAC).  These
chips use a two phase clocking scheme, one "CPUCLK" that's the same as the
68030 clock, and one "CLK90" that's delayed 90 degrees from CPUCLK.  If
you up the CPUCLK speed by changing the 32MHz or 50MHz basis clock to
something faster, CLK90 will no longer be phased correctly.  CLK90 is
generated from a tap delay, a 3-pin strip post jumper allowing selection
of the proper tap for either 16MHz or 25MHz operation.  There is no other
position.  Aside from this, none of these chips are qualified to work any
faster, and there's a real good chance they won't, even if you did build
a correct CLK90, added faster DRAM, etc.

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      BIX: hazy
	"Work like a horse, drink like a fish"	- Psychefunkapus
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: abair@parsons.sps.mot.com (Alan Bair)
Subject: Re: Syquest 88 to a3000, how?
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Organization: AMCU, Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:51:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.075125.4602@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> staferne@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Stefan Taferner) writes:

   >From: ferg@cup.portal.com (John P Ferguson)
   >Subject: Syquest 88 to a3000, how?
   >Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:40:29 PDT
   >Organization: The Portal System (TM)
   >
   >Hello...
   > 
   >I'm thinking about hooking a Syquest 88mb to my A3000 and was wondering
   >how?  do I just make a mountlist then format it or do I use the Hard
   >Disk Prep program that comes in 2.0 or what?
   > 
   >Thanks!
   > 
   >Ferg

   You use the program HDToolBox that comes with WB2.x
   ---
   Stefan

If you don't have the SyQuest ready when you boot, you will also need to
mount it yourself. This can be done with either a mountlist entry and mount
or use the SCSIMounter tool, which I think is on the Fish Disks. As long as
you partition cartridges in the same way, you can swap them with little
trouble. I have been doing this for several months now with no problems.
They are a great way to add more disk space; have fun.
--
Alan Bair             		AMCU DSCS
Motorola, Inc.            	    (Design Software &
Mail Stop OE-320		     Computer Services)
6501 William Cannon Dr. West	
Austin, TX  78735-8598          abair@parsons.sps.mot.com
From: FisKer@cup.portal.com (Scott M Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Need hard disk parameters!
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 03:30:54 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


I don't have the number readily available, but you can call a 
Seagate Tech. Support line and get the parameters on every drive they've
made. It's one of those "Press 1 for blah blah support, etc." However,
I found it quite helpful after accidentally resetting the CMOS setup
on an IBM system. You actually enter the numerals of your drive when
directed by Mr. Computerized Voicemail.  Call information at
408-555-1212 and ask for Seagate; the main office can give you the
Tech. Service number. Seagate is (was?) based in Scotts Valley, CA.