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From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Tape Drive Questions (was: Re: 3M MCD-40 Tape Drives & HDBackup)
Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:55:35 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: leekil@BBN.COM (Lee Kilpatrick)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Nov16.181142.8261@col.hp.com> dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin) writes:
>I have two (yes 2, and *no* I don't want to sell one!) of the 3M MCD-40 tape
>drives.  I use either BTNTAPE 2.1 or usually Quarterback 5.0 with them.
>It is great being able to back up two hard drives at the same time, there
>doesn't seem to be much SCSI bus contention (this is with a C=2091).
>
>BTNTAPE and TAR are available from the Fred Fish collection.  BTNTape requires
>that you create a mountlist and that you use TAR to do the backups/restores.


What disk is BTNtape 2.1 on?  I easily found BTNtape2.0 on the net,
but 2.1 has been more elusive.

Also, someone talked about using gnutar on the Amiga for tape drives.
I am using the tar version mentioned in the BTNtape documents, but one
thing I want to be able to do is transfer data using tapes & tar from
a Unix system.  When I have done this in the past using disks and this
version of tar, it doesn't properly read the dates from the
Unix-created archive.  I was hoping gnutar would fix this.

Also, I was unable to simply un-tar a tape made on a Unix system.  Is
there any special trick you have to do with Unix blocking factors and
such to be able to do this?

	Lee
From: laubfrosch@tron.gun.de (Dieter Rosenhagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:A1200 AIBB_5.0 BenchMark Tests
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:38:00 +0100

Am 12.11.92 um 11:02 schrieb SALLEN%NYX.CS.DU.EDU@USENET.ZER unter dem Betreff A1200 AIBB_5.0 BenchMark Tests:

-> From: sallen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Allen)
-> Subject: A1200 AIBB_5.0 BenchMark Tests
-> Message-ID: <1992Nov12.110253.18553@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
-> Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
-> 
-> 
-> Hi all,
-> 
-> Well after the comments I recieved aster giving the Sysinfo results for
-> the A1200, I have now used Aibb_5.0 to test the new machine.
-> 
-> A1200   2meg chip
-> comparsion A500 .5meg chip, 4meg fast
-> 
-> Test           A500          A1200          times better
-> WritePixel    104.48s        22.72s          4.6
-> Dhrystone     1604           3123            1.95
-> Matrix         23.6s          8.87s          2.6
-> MemTest        46.02s        13.79s          3.34
-> Sieve          65.28s        20.35s          3.21
-> Sort           58.70s        22.25s          2.64
-> IMath          94.14s        35.21s          2.67
-> TGTest         11.92s         6.38s          1.87
-> IntTest         0.458 Mips    0.802 Mips     1.75
-> 
-> 
-> So there you go.   Has anyone got comparative figures for the A2500??
-> 
A2500/30-25Mhz  1meg chip

Test       A2500
WritePixel 29.89s
Drystone   8859
Matrix     2.36s
MemTest    6.89s
Sieve      7.17s
Sort       8.35s
IMath      5.25s
TGTest     6.18s
InstTest   2.506881 Mips

Bye,
Laubfrosch.

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>>> laubfrosch@tron.gun.de | Dieter Rosenhagen (2:242/21.15)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: Re: AA chip sprite-colors question
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:32:28 GMT

In article <36674@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
>In article <1992Nov3.152852.245@cranel.com> watters@cranel.com (David Watters) writes:
>>Is it possible, with the copper or through the OS, to change to registers
>>a sprite or set of sprites use during the verticle blank?  How about during
>
>That's how the OS sets up the pointer for the next field of the display.
>
>>a screen draw?  How about the middle of drawing one of the sprites, ie. during
>>a horizontal blank?
>
>The proper graphics way to reuse sprites is through the VSprite system. However,
>there needs to be at least one blank line between sprite reusage. It is only
>possible to alter the sprite data once per line with the Copper as the Sprite
>DMA slots are available only at the beginning of the line.
>
>>David R. Watters (watters@cranel.com)    Cranel Inc. Development & Engineering
>-- 
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From: barham@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: REALLY confused about monitors - for A1200
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:47:42 GMT
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton) writes:
> I hope someone can explain something about monitors to me.
>
> I'm considering buying a 1200, now I've heard it will work on SVGA
> monitors, however as I understand it the 1200 has a number of
> different modes:
>
>     So according to my reviews the 1200 has the following modes:
>
>     1280 x 400
>     1280 x 200
>     800 x 600
>     640 x 690

(640x960 maybe?)

>     640 x 480

(not to mention 320 and 160 by 480 and 960 I think)

>     640 x 400
>     640 x 200
>     320 x 400
>     320 x 200
>
>     All modes offer 256,000 colours from a palette of 16.7m.
>
>     Would a SVGA monitor be able to DISPLAY all of these,
>     with/without flicker?

An SVGA monitor that covers the appropriate frequency range would
work with all of these modes.  Super-hires, 800x600 (and maybe
640x960 at a guess) would be interlaced, everything else not if you
have mode promotion on.

>     Would a multisync be able to DISPLAY all of these
>     with/without flicker?

Ho does a multisync monitor differ from a SVGA monitor?  Aren't SVGA
monitors really multisync monitors?  I thought they would have to be.
Answer as above.

> Would the 'standard' C= 1084 monitor work ok?

Yep, but you wouldn't be able to get non-interlaced higher-res
displays.

> If anyone could explain what overscan and interlace means,
> and what they would mean to a user, I would also be grateful.

Interlace: To get higher resolution from a given bandwidth (forgive
any inappropriate use of proprietry terms %^), the electron beam does
the odd lines on its first sweep, then the even lines on the next
sweep.  This results in flicker because the refresh rate of any given
pixel id halved.

Overscan: TV's display their picture beyond the visible edge of the
screen.  This area is called overscan.  The Amiga lets you use the
overscan area, which may be visible on your monitor, to get more
pixels on the screen.  You can adjust the amount of overscan used so
that your screens go right to the very edge of the vidible portion of
the monitor.

Tim.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Sony 1302 Monitor questions
From: ganoe@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Craig Ganoe)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:36:21 GMT
Organization: GE M&DSO - VF
Keywords: Monitor, Sony 1302, AGA

I know they're difficult to find, but I was wondering if anyone has any
experience with the Sony 1302 (in particular on the Amiga and even better
if on an AGA machine).  I've seen the 1304 a number of times and been really
impressed.  Because of that, I'm considering starting the search for a 1302 if
its quality's anything like that of 1304.  Thanks for any help.

  Craig
From: jayson@tbag.tscs.com (Jayson Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:44:20 EST
Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group

 
6 Nov 92 02:57:20 GMT bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:
 
[stuff deleted]
 
>I can't wait to see the defecit/debt figures in four years... Omigosh. :-)
>Do you really believe it's going to go down?  With the Democrats now 
>dominating not only the house and senate, but also the executive branch?
>You're going to be very disappointed.  Just wait.
 
Even  a  slight slow-down in the rate-of-increase of the defecit would be a
major  accomplishment.   If  Bush  were  in  again the defecit would simply
continue  to  rise  at the outrageous rate that he was already getting away
with.   We  went from Carter's 270 billion defecit to Reagan's 2.7 trillion
to Bush's 4.1 trillion.  (It's easy to see who the crooks are isn't it?) If
the  Clinton admin raises the debt anything less then 1 trillion then he'll
be doing better than Bush did, especially considering the interest.
 
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
>"Oh, my beloved ice cream bar!  How I love to lick your creamy center -- and
>your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering.  You're not like the others -- you like
>the same things I do! Wax paper... boiled football leather... dog breath!" -Ren
 
 Jay Phillips * Tampa Florida
 Amiga 3000 25Mhz/105HD/10MB
 USENET: tbag!jayson@tscs.com

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From: h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Darren Gower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030/MMU on A530 is possible?
Date: 21 Nov 92 12:31:12 GMT
Organization: Comp. Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia

In <1992Nov17.134709.12449@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ry53@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Angela Schmidt) writes:

[...]
>Yesterday, I replaced the 68EC030/40 of my A530 by an 68030/50. It
>works rather fine. Enforcer runs, but I have a bit trouble with 
>SetCPU KICKROM, which resets the machine, but does not bring up
>the new kickstart. But the reason may be my nonstandard system:
[...]

>|> 	Why not?  I put a MMUed 030 on my VXL, which also ships with the
>|> EC as standard. They are pin for pin compatible, you may have to reset a
>|> few jumpers on the GVP, but it shouldn't cause any problems, all you are
>|> doing is giving yourself an MMU.

>It works without resetting any jumpers.

In the manual for the A530, there is talk of jumpers which control
the 'emulation' of MMU functionality to allow the ROM to be shadowed
into 32bit ram. To use the MMU '030, it talks of having to short
(or close?) a set of jumpers on the motherboard, which disables the
on-board 'GVP MMU' (such that it is ...). Could this explain your
problems with setcpu not working properly?

regards,
Darren.
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From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 and CDrom (aka IDE blows) (was Re: IDE : Possible
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:32:58 GMT
	<OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_5383ab65@piraya.bad.se>
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se's message of 15 Nov 92 15:39:32 GMT

>>>>> On 15 Nov 92 15:39:32 GMT, Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin) said:

> You all act like you can't stick your SCSI controllers in the 4000.

Roger> Well, in some cases you can't. The A2091 will not work the A4000

I can't either, since my SCSI controller is on my 3000's MOTHERBOARD.
(IMHO, the lack of SCSI is a far worse problem than AGA's requirements for
the wide range of monitor scan rates.)

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HELLO, everybody, I'm a HUMAN!!
From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Which is the BEST CDROM driver for the Amiga??
Date: 18 Nov 1992 23:46:34 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: leekil@BBN.COM (Lee Kilpatrick)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1992Nov17.184707.15630@crash> jgallego@crash.cts.com (Jose Gallego) writes:
>HI!
>
>What is the best CDROM File System for the Amiga?
>
>From what I have read these are two of CDROM File systems available:
>
>Asim CDFS
>Xetec
>
>Any comments?
>
>I am planning to purchase the Xetec because it includes the CDTV emulator.
> 


Does anyone have the number to call Xetec & order their filesystem?


Also, someone posted here a while ago some information about the Xetec
CDROM filesystem.  They said that they bought it, along with two CD
ROMS from Xetec for $50.  However, their wording was ambiguous, and
they could have bought the filesystem wither with or without the two
CD ROMs, for $50.  Does Xetec give you two CDROMs if you buy their
filesystem from them?



	Lee


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hra360k1@csulb.edu (Darcy Anvar)
Subject: Re: SyQuest Removable Hardrive
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:12:24 GMT

That is just your drive accessing the cache in your computer.  Its completely
normal.
From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Golden Gate 486!!
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:13:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
X-Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-Date: 16 Nov 92 18:13:24 EST
X-Organization: St. Peter's College, US

hello,

	WOW!! I am in love with the Vortex GoldenGate 486 bridgeboard-LIKE 
card. If anyone get's a hold of one please post a review or just opinions. I 
noticed from the specs  (in the latest AMIGAWORLD ad) that it seems better than 
the similar offering from the other company in the back of the book (sorry but 
I don't remember thier names- besides... who else makes 486 BB's?). The 
GoldenGate has a max capacity of 16megs the other 8. 

	Someone go out and get one ! Try it ! Let us know !!

			Felix Marte
		greatly interested in showing up his MESSY DOS friends!
			5marte_f@spcvxa.spc.edu
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: A3070 and QIC-24
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:10:33 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <24064@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
writes:

| Has anyone managed to read a QIC-24 tape on an A3070 tape drive?  A
| friend has a Sun 3 and some PD software I'd like to transfer to my
| A3000 w/Amiga UNIX v2.1p2a via tape.  Unfortunately, all attempts have
| resulted in the A3070 returning a SCSI error, specifically a BLANK
| CHECK (i.e., it thinks the tape is totally blank.)

Yes; tapes written by a Sun-3 using both Wangtek and Archive QIC-24 drives
have been read on an A3070 (running AmigaUNIX).  Tapes written by a Sun-3
using an Archive 2150S QIC-150 have also been read by the same A3070.

| [...]
| We've tried DC300XL, DC600A, even an old Sun distribution tape to no
| avail.  I called Sankyo (the current owner of Calipher who made the
| A3070 drives) and the friendly technician there is at a loss.  The
| A3070 (Calipher CP150AEH) is supposedly read-compatible with QIC-24.
| 
| An alternate possibility is that my friends's Sun-3 tape drive is not
| QIC-24.  However, my friend is pretty sure it is.  He frequently reads
| original Sun system distribution tapes with the drive.
| 
| Any ideas?  Thanks.

You didn't specify the Sun-3 model (i.e. Sun-3/50, Sun-3/60, Sun-3/80, etc.),
the model of the tape drive (on the Sun), nor the version of SunOS distribution
tapes.

Point being: SunOS versions prior to 4.x were written on QIC-11 drives (which
are 4 track).

Just for reference:

QIC-11	4 tracks
QIC-24	9 tracks; read-compatible with QIC-11
QIC-120	18 tracks; read-compatible with QIC-24
QIC-150	18 tracks; read compatible with QIC-24, QIC-120 and QIC-150

The diff between QIC-120 and QIC-150 is the recording density on tape.
It's very unlikely to find a QIC-120 drive on other than an AT&T 3B2 system.
A QIC-150 drive reads/writes 150MB using a 600' DC6150 tape, and reads/writes
250MB using a 1000' DC6250 tape.

I've read about (but haven't personally verified) that the QIC-120 and QIC-150
drives are read-compatible with QIC-11.  If you look at how the tracks are
placed on the tape, it's definitely possible.  Archive tape drives can handle
just about anything; damifino about those oddball "Calipher" (sp?) drives.
Wonder why CBM didn't use the name-brand Archive or Wangtek drives?

A QIC-525 (Archive ST525 aka DEC TZK10) drive *IS* read-compatible with QIC-24,
QIC-120 and QIC-150, but uses a special highly-calendered tape and much higher
density for its "native-mode" recording.

In summary: are you sure YOUR A3070 is working properly?  Have you been able
to read tapes written on ANY other system?

Heck, even my tprobe program works on AmigaUNIX; we used it to duplicate
some 250MB tapes at the local Amiga dealer (one drive was an A3070 and the
other drive was, hmm, "something else")(yes, two tape drives were on the
same AmigaUNIX system).

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
From: barham@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:21:20 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>
>

Hmmm, my thoughts exactly.
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PC880B External Floppy and the A1200
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:08:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.37197
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <13651@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
> If you've got a Power Computing PC880B and want to get an A1200, bad
> news I'm afraid:
> 
> 	The PC880B doesn't work with the A1200!!!
> 
> At least, not well...
> 
> I got a brand new PC880B for my A500 in October, and was quite pleased
> with it (except for the fact that the Anti-Virus function is
> completely useless as it stops all writes to track 0, and Amiga writes
> a track at a time so valid write accesses to that track are made
> illegal!), and this month I got my A1200. They don't like each other!
> 
> Perfectly valid disks are proclaimed to have a `read error' on them,
> cancelling the resulting requester multiple times often lets the data
> be read, and the disks work well in the internal drive (this happens
> for all disks OFS, FFS, OFS+DC, FFS+DC). Also the drive doesn't seem
> to like disk changes any more, often refusing to recognise a disk when
> you put it in, even if it is the same one that you just took out!
> 
> I rung Power Computing yesterday, and they are aware of the problem,
> but, as yet, do not know the cause. They said to ring back at the end
> of next week and they may have a solution. They did not offer to swap
> the drive for a different model which does work... 

Most likely, they are using something other than the  1K terminating
resistors that are standard for the Amiga drives.  I guess it is also
possible that there is some timing dependency in their device that
trips up on 68020 or 3.0 timings.

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Open letter to Marc Barrett
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 18:32:30 GMT
 <Bwp03r.A0H@news.iastate.edu> <4l3Vr*6e1@caleb.UUCP> <1992Nov2.204201.17696@panix.com>
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <1992Nov2.204201.17696@panix.com>, Richard Powers writes:

> In <4l3Vr*6e1@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> 
> >Marc,
> >      PLEASE move all your postings to .advocacy.  We read this newsgroup to
> >learn more about Amiga hardware - NOT to find seemingly endless drivel from
> >you about why Amigas and CBM are doomed.
> 
> Why don't you just put him in your kill file?

A.  My kill files don't work very well.

B.  His postings take up precious space on my HD.  (Maybe I should write a
    program to find and delete all his postings...)


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How to tell if A4000 has OFS or FFS
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:21:44 GMT

In <1992Nov13.205454.22735@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>Okay, I finally got the A4000 and have installed the networking software
>so that I can transfer the files from the A3000.  But I don't want to do
>anything until I find out if the HD is one of the ones that is formatted
>wrong.  HDToolbox says that the filesystem is "custom" and I can't figure
>out what the hell that means.

>Anyone have any ideas?

I'm only speculating, but the Hard Disk could be formatted with the
Directory Caching Option of WB3.0, and therefore normal (<=2.1)
software will not regonize it properly...

There again, I may be totally wrong! Do what the other guy tells you
and format the drive as you go...

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University of Southampton        \xx/            to go on this side of my
England.                                         signature, any ideas?