HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: 30degC = Dead A4000!
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:00:13 GMT

From article <1993Jan9.144401.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, by rwesleyag@cc.curtin.edu.au:
[...]
> Today I went as far as to set a thermometer up next
> to the case and a 30 degrees it became delerious.
> (It was about 38 degrees outside, what a great big
> hot country this is!)
> Seeing as Im using my A4000 to make a quid at the
> moment I and another friend who is having a similar

Sounds like you will need to insert a daylight phase shift - sleep in
the day and work at night :-)

5 degrees from the standard 25 C should not be a problem, though.  I
would suspect other areas of the circuit, as the timing is tight all
over the bus and temperature will affect what little margins there are
adversely for any MOS components.
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From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
Subject: AGA monitors                           
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:01:05 GMT

nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu  writes:
> Does anyone know it a Mitsubishi Dimondscan 1371A will work with the AGA?
> 
> Someone said the 1381A will in all modes.  What about the quality of the
> Mitsubishi display?
>                                        NCW

I have an A1200HD attached to a Mitsubishi Diamondscan 1371A.  Therefore, I
feel obligated to explain my opinion about the setup.

The 1371A meets immediate approval with everybody because it has a seperate
composite input just like the 1084!  Yeaahhh!  It's a BNC style connector.
(No big deal; just get the $2.49 adaptor at Radio Shack.)  But the
analogue/composite switch is on the back of the monitor (not the front
like as in the 1084.)  Booo!

Anyways, the 1371A is one of the few multisynch monitors capable of 15khz.
This makes it real popular with Amigans.  However, to the best of my
knowledge, this monitor is discontinued and has been replaced with one
that does not sync down to 15khz.  :^(

The monitor is not capable of all AGA modes.  The monitor resolution
is 800x600.  So it has trouble with the ultra-high rez screens.  BTW, I
am only beginning to experiment, but enjoy a fairly solid DBLNTSC:640x400
screen which looks great.  ;^)  The dot pitch is .31mm (to those of you
who are interested.)

Well how does one get a hold of one of these babies?  I bought one for
$259 from a place in Indio, CA called Source Electronics (I think that was
the name of the place.)  There is an old posting in c.s.a.marketplace
giving the full details about this great deal.  Wait let me go see if I
can find it...  Sorry, can't find it.  eMail me if you need the phone
number of this place posted here.

One side note about this place.  A friend of mine also took 'em up on the
$259 offer.  Both of the monitors we received appear to have been used.
No big deal though; they're in perfect shape -- no case or glass scratches,
no phosphor etching, etc, but they appear used nonetheless.

Sorry I can't offer more info about using this monitor with the A1200
(AGA chipset.)  I have only had my A1200HD for a day now (Yes! Yes! Yes!)
and have been satisfied with the results.  I am still fiddling with making
this machine and monitor give an acceptible display of games.  Anything
that boots itself up has bothersome black edges.  It looks like a damn
clone!  I can fiddle with some knobs but always have a black strip on the
left side.  :^(  (Oh no!  Not the bothersome black strip!  AHHHHH!)

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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SetCPU
Keywords: 3000T-040
Date: 5 Jan 93 01:05:58 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <85579@ut-emx.uucp> sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:

>I just tried running setcpu v1.6 on my 3000T-040 only to have it
>crash on me.  

SetCPU won't do anything useful for you on an '040 system.  Use the
OS-supplied "CPU" for simple cache controls, or Nic Wilson's "Set040" 
for most of the normal SetCPU type things.


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From: torrunes@idt.unit.no (Tor Rune Skoglund)
Subject: Re: ide cable for a1200
Reply-To: torrunes@idt.unit.no (Tor Rune Skoglund)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:33:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.4509.27676@dosgate>, "john golitsis" <john.golitsis@canrem.com> writes:
|> -> If it's a different cable than the laptops use please correct us now!  I will
|> -> be rather miffed if I have a perfectfly good 2.5" IDE drive here beside
|> -> my sparkling new 1200 (when it finally arrives!) and then I have to wait
|> -> *longer* for a "special" cable so I can use it!!!
|> ->
|> 
|> It's very different from laptop cables!

Is it? Looks just like an standard 44-pin IDE cable to me. 
What should the difference be?

|> John
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From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Can the A3070 tape drive use 6250 tapes (250 meg) ??
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 23:13:27 EST
Organization: Phaedra V

In article <1iad95INNq9h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Scott Devine writes:

> I saw an ad for the A3070 for $349 and wondered if it could use the 6250
> tapes.  The ad says it can use the 6150 tapes..  Anyone know?

The answer is yes. I do it, and so do other people I know.
There are scary warnings with the tapes that doing so may cause
excessive head wear on the drive and that it is a bad idea to go back
and forth between 150 and 250M tapes. The warnings are not to be taken
lightly. Once you're aware of the downside/risks, it's your choice.

500M tapes are right out. They're a different density.

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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: I have a clock for the A1200
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:06:56 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

I did have one which I traded when my A1000 semi-broke :-) I bought it mail order
from the USA, from a company which had had it on the shelf for 2 years, and when it
arrived it had the correct time (within 30 seconds) for the place in the US where it
was manufactured! If MicroBotics are still around perhaps they will make one in an 
A1200-friendly case....

Dave
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From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: A2286 with A3000
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:12:51 GMT

soudan@boole (SOUDAN sebastien) writes:

>sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:


>>I currently have an A3000T-040 with 10Mb of RAM and an A2286
>>bridgeboard.  Will there be any memory conflict if I add the other
>>8MB of on-board memory?  I remember hearing talk that the
>>bridgeboard takes some memory space -does that conflict with the
>>on-board RAM space?

>>Thanks, 
>>Scot
>>sjk@emx.cc.utexas.edu
>>sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu

>There is adresses conflict: the max is 6MB with the bb2286

As the A3000 on-board memory is not located in the ZorroII address space,
there won't be any address conflict between bridgeboard and A3000
on-board memory.

> SOUDAN Sebastien  ESI2/ EUI Grenoble

winnie.
From: dwdyer@eskimo.com (Wayne Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Advice on 68030 for A2000 needed
Date: 9 Jan 93 10:27:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-

I'm in the getting-real serious stage of the "lust for speed" here, and am
confusing myself a wee bit.  The system currently is a ECS 2000, with a
GVP Series II hard card w/drive and 4MB Fast RAM.
 
I want/need more speed, but in compiling information have gleaned this so far:
 
1.  Don't worry about the lack of an MMU in the EC030.
2.  68881 is more bang for the buck than the 68882.
3.  Only modest speed increases can be expected without 32-bit RAM.

So, since I already have SCSI, I was looking at the VXL-30 or the Derringer.
If I'd -thought ahead- when I bought the hard card, I'd have gotten the 
G-Force 030 combo and had it done with in one swell foop.

Trouble is, it's looking like the VXL-30 with 2MB RAM is approaching the cost
of the G-Force 030 or the IVS Vector board.  Which makes me (almost) want to
go ahead and get one or the other, pull the RAM off the GVP hard card, pull
the hard drive off the GVP hard card (trashing the 2-year warranty), and sell
the GVP SCSI interface.

So, in the midst of this I'm hollering for suggestions/advice.  I'd be
especially interested to hear from someone with a 2000, a GVP SCSI card, and
an accelerator -not- on the GVP card.  (Compatibility issues, "actual" speed
increase via AIBB or SysInfo, etc.)

To avoid cluttering things up here, please reply by email and I'll post
results later.
 
Thanks!

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From: pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adisak Pochanayon)
Subject: Using HD floppies on a 2000?
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:07:07 CST

   The subject says it all.  Looking for a way to read MSDOS HD floopies
for my A2000.  Preferably a project I can put together.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:22552 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:18275 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:32882
From: aldi@phantm.UUCP (Christopher Aldi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  Questions about new computers/future chipsets
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:30:42 GMT
Organization: Phantom Development

>>>>Has C= mentioned whether the new machines (A4000, A1200, etc) will 
>>>>be able to handle either their low-end or high-end chipsets when they
>>>>are released in 1994?  
>>>
>>>   No.  The chipsets in the A4000 and A1200 are surface-mounted. They 
>>>cannot be replaced.
>>
>>Marc, you didn't answer the question, you just spewed a half-truth.  C= has
>>NOT said that the 1200/4000 will not support the new chipsets.  And just
>>because the chips are surface mounted, doesn't mean that the 1200/4000
>>won't be able to support them.  Ever heard of RTG?
>
>Lewis Eggebrecht said in his speach at WOCA toronto that they are committed
>to providing upgrades to the next generation (mosdly through board swaps and
>or cards add-ons.

By the time the new chipsets arrive, OS 4.0 with RTG will be available.
At that time the A1200 & A4000 could be upgrade via a new graphics board
is the same way to change video cards on an OS/2 or MSDOS box.
I imagine that even the A3000, will be able to upgraded, and possibly
the A2000 & A500 as well. At the same time, you should be able to
run WorkBench and other applications on the DMI resolver, Opal Vision,
DCTV, or just about any graphic display for which a RTG device driver
can be/will be written for... as for the performance of the display,
that remains to be seen. Lets hope it is more efficent than SAGE. ;-)

Grains of salt -> . . . . . <- Take one. ;-)

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Subject: Re: 3.5" ide with a 1200?
From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:51:25 GMT+12
Organization: It's Home, really...
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Roger Uzun (uzun@crash.cts.com) wrote:
> There are many adaptors available for 2.5" to 3.5" IDE drives,
    Where from?
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From: goodwinm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Michael Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
Keywords: Amiga CrossDOS
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:55:00 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu

Funny... all the IBM's I've seen with HD drives also read DD disks...
From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: IDE HD's
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:28:31 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

Is it (electrically) possible to put two HD's on the A4000 IDE controller? What about
the A1200?

Dave

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From: mustang@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Christopher Miranda (I love Cheese))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How does 2.04 perform on A500???????????????????
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:14:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1993Jan7.125223.3145@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:

>
>What does it need?  (Seems like if 3.0 were compatible with older Amigas they
>wouldn't have bothered releasing 2.1)
>
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I think 3.0 should not exist.. I would think that they would make 2.1 compat.
with both original and AGA chips, such that it would run on all amigas..
having a seperate release of the operating system just to support a few 
(although large) changes in hardware is goofy.. oh well,, RTG will end all of
that...

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From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Info needed about AGA.
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:07:23 GMT

wolfe@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:

>Does anyone know of a High density 3 1/2 for an Amiga 500 running 1.3 Kickstart
>ROM's?

Such a beast exists, but it won't work if you upgrade to 2.X.  

>Also, does anyone know of an AGA upgrade to the 500, 2000, or 3000?

No, no, and no.  Easier to buy a 1200 or a 4000.

>Thanks in advance,
>    Thomas Wolfe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: scott@sdc.UUCP (Scott Dunbar)
Subject: 2.1 for the 3000 
Originator: scott@minnie
Organization: sdc
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:29:03 GMT



Hi,
	I've been waiting to upgrade my 3000 from what I have been told is
a beta version of the OS (KS 36.207, WB 36.68) to 2.1 and have finally gotten
around to getting the ball rolling.  The place I called to order 2.1 asked me
if I needed a "rom tower" for my 3000.

	What is a "rom tower"?  The guy I talked to sounded like he had been in
the 60's just a little too long so I don't know if he knew what he was talking
about.  My 3000 was purchased very soon after they came out.  I can tell you
what is on the boards inside:

motherboard says it is revision 8.9
daughterboard says revision 5, but has a sticker that says "Rev 6.1"
The ROMS that are in there now have 390629-02 ROM0V5 and 390630-02 ROM1V5
This is a 3000/25 - 100.

	I'll be perfectly honest I don't know if the OS loads from ROM or from
the HD.  I know I can boot 2.xx or 1.3 on power-up. I've been away from the
machine much too long.  I would like to move the 3000 into the current CBM
"state of the art" (oximoron?).  I get the impression that 3.x is not currently
available for non-AGA machines.  Is that true?  BTW, is there some way to use
the old ROMS to upgrade my 1000 from 1.2 to 1.3?  I kinda doubt it, but thought
I'd ask.

	I apolgize if this is in an FAQ.  I was not able to find it in a cursory
search.


	Thanks in advance for any help.

			scott dunbar

 
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Subject: Re: GVP Combo board not recognizing 870meg SCSI on cold boot.
From: John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz (The Nose)
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:58:37 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Randy Byers (rmbyers@bfield.uucp) wrote:
>I've got a 22mhz combo board (5megs RAM, SCSI controller, 22mhz 030).  I've

>got 3 SCSI hard drives chained together - 2 105meg Quantums and an 870meg 
>Toshiba - brand new.  When I do a cold boot, the system recognizes the 2
>quantums and boots off of the one, but it never recognizes the Toshiba. 
>However, when I do a warm boot (ctrl-amiga-amiga), it recognizes it just
>fine.

the GVP roms seem to be woefully inadeqaute as far as waiting for drives
to spin up goes, I know we had problems with an old/slow seagate on a combo.

As long as you don't want to boot off it, the fix is simple, use
gvpscsisctrl
from you startup-sequence to rescan/remount any drives. This works fine for
us.

Ideally GVP should update their roms so that they don't just give up if a
drive's not read when the bus is scanned, like even the CBM controllers know
enough to do that.

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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How to put a CLock in A1200
Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:43:01 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <1ie5kmINNom6@phakt.usc.edu> dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
>	Shhhh! Don't scare the chicks away! Besides, be gentleman and give
>the girl a break. We all know they can be extra-touchy, at least for a few
>days a month. >:v)  hmm, any suggestion on sneering smiley? :)

Paula's real touchy on sexism.  Unlike all the other girls, she's got
a few nice days a month.  ;)

A sneering smiley...  >] or >}, perhaps?  B]

Greg
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From: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HDToolBox and GVP Series II (A500)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 12:28:25 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
NNTP-Posting-Host: laureline.cs.hut.fi
Summary: Using HDToolBox with GVP harddisks
Keywords: harddisk, GVP, HD

I've been using my GVP Series II harddisk for quite a while, so now
I'm interested in upgrading the software. My retailer knows nothing of
Faaastprep or gvpscsi.device upgrades, so I chose to try HDToolBox.
Can't get it to see my controller, though... Any clues?

Please use e-mail as well as posting...

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From: hubbell@gumby.dsd.trw.com (Steve Hubbell)
Subject: Ethernet Boards...
Organization: TRW INC., Redondo Beach CA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:38:17 GMT

I am interested in hooking a 3000 up to an ethernet network (10base-T).  I
could use some recommendations on sources for Commodore and 3rd Party
Ethernet boards.  

If possible, please respond via e-mail!

Thanks...
Steve Hubbell
(hubbell@gumby.dsd.trw.com)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: IBM internal modem in Amiga
Keywords: modem
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:03:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.020658.28541@samba.oit.unc.edu> Andy.Church@launchpad.unc.edu (Andy Church) writes:
>
>I've got a leftover 2400-baud internal modem from my father's IBM PC.
>I want to install it in my Amiga 2000, but I don't know of any
>software that supports a modem in one of the IBM slots.  Does anyone
>know of any such software?

   You'd also need some form of hardware, because in an Amiga system without
a BridgeCard or something similar, the IBM slots are not electronically 
connected to the rest of the Amiga (aside from some voltages and grounds 
being supplied to the IBM slots).  In other words, without something to 
'bridge' the IBM slots to the rest of the Amiga, it is impossible to use 
an IBM internal modem with Amiga software.

   I've heard that the Gateway II (or whatever it's called) has such 
software availbale for it, though.  It would also be nice if Commodore 
added facilities to the Janus BridgeCard software to support IBM internal
modems as Amiga devices.

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