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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 Doubts...
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:32:48 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <hanscs.56.722160913@dhhalden.no> hanscs@dhhalden.no (HANS CHRISTIAN SANDER) writes:
> In article <56991@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> borzieri@cavour.ICO.olivetti.com (Ivan Borzieri) writes:
> >From: borzieri@cavour.ICO.olivetti.com (Ivan Borzieri)
> >Subject: A1200 Doubts...
> >Date: 18 Nov 92 08:39:24 GMT
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm planning to sell all my existing hw to get a brand new Amiga 1200, but I 
> >have some doubts :) :
> >
> >			- Is it true that if I get a MultiSync Monitor
> >			(scanning down to 15 Khz) I can display ALL the
> >			modes the a1200 is capable of ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> >			In which modes I STILL get flickering ? 
> 
> In the Interlaced modes.
> 
> >
> >			- A friend of mine told me IDE HD used in A1200
> >			are somewhat different from the ones used in PCs.
> >			Is that true ?
> 
> No it is not true.

Yes is is true.  PC IDE drives are generally 3.5 inch drives.  They don't
fit in the case and the connector cable has a different pin spacing.  The
IDE drive is however of the same type (2.5 inch) as used in laptop PC's.

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From: haramic@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Joseph Haramic)
Subject:   2.04 on my 1000 -- How?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:35:39 GMT

Does anyone have info on Zkick which would allow my 1000
to run the 2.04 OS?  If you are using Zkick or know of
anyone who is...let me know.  

I just want an inexpensive way (that's why I still have a 1000)
to run 2.04 instead of 1.3!!!!!!!!

Are there any simple (or not so simple) hacks available that are
inexpensive.  I _love_ to solder ;-)

thanx to any responders...

Joe

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From: jechawke@unix2.tcd.ie (Lone Rider)
Subject: Amiga CD-ROM readable on PC ??
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:23:27 GMT


Does anyone know if I can read a CD-Rom for the Amiga (eg FISH disks)
on an IBM PC ? (the PC has a Soundblaster Pro CD-Rom drive)
I can't afford to buy a CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, so I figured
maybe it would be possible to stick the CD into the PC's CD-Rom
drive and copy the files I want to an 800k 3.5" and then use
dod2dos or similar to read them on the Amiga.

What do you think ?
thanks in advance for your help,
Jonathan

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From: olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson)
Subject: Question: Order of Bus Connections Important?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Mission Operations and Data Systems
Date: 23 Nov 1992 12:46 EST  

Hello Everyone,

I know, from having managed VAXen for the last 12 years, that the connection
order of peripherals to a bus is important.  But I was told by a local dealer
that I should have my GVP SCSI upstream (i.e. closer to the CPU) of my SupraRAM
in my A2000 in order to improve performance.  Is this true?  Will this improve
performance?  If so, why?  This seems counter-intuitive since the disk drive is
slower than the RAM.  Can anyone offer any explanation?

Thanks,
Paul

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From: sticht@edith.deg.sub.org (Stefan Sticht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: A3000 w/ Quantum P425S under Amix: SCSI bus hangs randomly. Help!
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:33:39 MET
Organization: private

I've got the following *big* problem:

I want to run AmigaUnix V2.03 from a Quantum ProDrive  425iS  in  an  A3000
(16MHz, 4+2 MB memory).

But the SCSI bus hangs randomly.  The  A3000's  and  the  drive's  LED  are
burning forever.

It's not likely a problem of the harddisk, because the drive works fine  in
another A3000 (25Mhz, 2+16MB) and it seems to work fine under AmigaOS (2.04
and 3.0), but I tested this only extensively. A Quantum  LP52S  also  works
fine under AmigaOS.

Then I tried another harddisk for Unix, an external Syquest. Same  problem:
the SCSI bus hangs randomly. The Syquest works fine  (under  Unix)  on  the
other A3000 (the 25MHz one).

It's not a matter of termination. I'm sure I always  terminated  everything
right. There are no terminators on the motherboard (that's the right way).

I already tested:

o Q425S as the only drive, attached with the short ribbon cable,
  terminators on the drive installed, tested different unit numbers
o replaced all cables
o replaced the WD33C93A-PL SCSI chip (it's a 00-04 PROTO).

I don't think there's a  general  problem  with  AmigaUnix  2.03  on  4  MB
systems, as I already had such a system running here for a short test on an
A2000/A2630 w/ 4MB.

I didn't change jumpers on the drive (exept for the unit number), as I have
no manual for the drive and the drive works fine in the other A3000.

So. What can I  test  now?  It  seems  to  be  a  problem  on  the  A3000's
motherboard. Anyone out there with  an  idea  what  to  check?  Anyone  who
already had a similar problem?

Thank you very much for any help!

Gruss, Stefan
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: IBM Develops PC Product in 14 weeks
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:49:22 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <8691@orbit.cts.com> marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon) writes:
> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
> >[The following is from USA TODAY, 11/17/92]
> >| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
> >--------------------------------------------------
> 
> Do you have ANY idea what your talking about? IBM is MAGNITUDES bigger in
> terms of revenue than CBM.  IBM has been dictating industry direction for the
> most part of the last 30 years! 
>  
> Every time company xzy comes out with product abc you go on a CBM bashing
> rampage.  Get a life Marc.  Get your stinking degree and see what the REAL
> world is all about.
>  
> Do you think CBM has a bottomless pit of cash? Should they try to address
> EVERY stinking area of PC production? Hit EVERY market? ... You seem to think
> so.  You're wrong.  But you have been wrong so many times that we all expect
> it.  If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen......

You've missed two other points:

1) IBM regularly develops better hardware and puts it on ice until
   competitive developments force them to release it.

2) IBM regularly holds prices to max the market will bear for as
   long as they can, then announced overnight price reductions
   in response to product releases or price reductions by their
   competitors.

Holding up IBM as a good example is kind of a joke, at least if you are
talking about product development.  The might server however as a reasonable
example of sales and marketing prowess.

There's an interesting book out on the development of the IBM 360 series
that sheds a lot of life on what things were like at IBM during an earlier
phase when they really weren't sure if they could keep up with the competition
and also shows the interesting combination of the kind of R&D muscle they
could bring to bear and the dependence on individuals to make things happen.
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From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use a SCSI WORM drive on an Amiga???
Keywords: WORM worm scsi drive hardware question
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:12:58 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <storch.721615293@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu> storch@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu (Matthew Storch) writes:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to use a SCSI WORM drive on an Amiga
>
>It would seem to me that special support would be needed to make the
>drive look like a regular hard drive ("deleting" files by hiding them,
>etc.).  But if all I do is copy stuff to the drive and then just read it,
>might it work without any special support, since after all it IS a 
>block-oriented SCSI device?

Probably not. The key problem with WORM drives, is that you can only write
each block once.. or, more precisely, that you can't unset a bit once you
set it.

Most normal file systems write to the directory when a file is created,
and either park the directory at a known position, or store a pointer
to the directory in a known position. This is likely to cause severe
problems with a WORM device, when you try to modify the directory.
(for example, when you copy the next file on).

I assume file systems designed for WORM drives have some sort of
"directory obsolete"/"where to find newer version of directory" fields
which are left blank initially, and written into with a pointer to the
new directory, when the directory changes.. so it can just chase down
the links until it finds the latest version. (or the desired earlier one,
if it wants to let you access earlier versions too).

I'm afraid you'd need a special driver to use a WORM drive as a disc.

(The only way you'd get away without one would be if the the WORM drive
held a logical->physical block mapping in an internal format on the disc,
and updated it whenever you wrote a block to the disk... although that
could still be extremely wasteful if the directory was updated every time
a write was performed to an open file..)

You _might_ have more success trying to use it like a big _tape_ drive,
if you can find some backup software that (a) handles multiple backups
on a single tape, and (b) doesn't try to overwrite end markers.. and
(c) doesn't use any tape specific commands talking to the drive.






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From: Midknight-Rider@cup.portal.com (William Greg Stoudenmire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CDRom drive(NCR-80) Help
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:16:12 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

O.K., heres the trouble. I just got a NEC CDRom drive NEC-80 int. unit.
Computer setup:
    A500 6.5meg fast .5meg chip
    GVP SCSI+Ram controller GVPSCSI.DEVICE V.3.7
    Kickstart 34.5
    W.B. 34.28
    CDRom-FS

I installed the CDRom-FS with its icon and then changed the startup-seq.
Mount NEC: from Devs:mountlist.CDRom

I have the rom drive set a device 5, and all I did was in the mountlist.CDRom 
I changed the controller to gvpscsi.device

Try to boot and it looks up.
Try to mount the CDRom drive from CLI and the system locks up!

What am I doing wrong or is it time to upgrade the GVP.Device, or the
kickstart &OS , all of it or what.

Thanks for any help you can give!

midknight-rider@cup.portal.com
(Greg Stoudenmire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Is A2065 Ethernet adapter compat with A4000?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:48:07 GMT
X-Newssoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.15.92) by Michael B. Smith & Mike Schwartz
Reply-To: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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Organization: Universitt Bielefeld, Technische Fakultt

In article <1992Nov17.193412.23318@u.washington.edu> martinh@cac.washington.edu (Martin Hunt) writes:
> In article <BxvGGA.121@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de writes:
> >In article <1992Nov16.204641.26095@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
> >> In article <BxtnvB.85s@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de writes:
> >[Arguments]
[...]

> With configuration, there are those who want it to be as unix-like as possible and
> those who think we should try to simplify configuration somehow.  NeXT tried the
> latter and all I have heard is criticism.

 Well, i would make it both, shell and WB (own window) runnable, this should cover
 all wishes.

>
> You should file a bug report or nfsmgr.  I haven't seen any problems
> like you mention.

 I tried to reproduce it several times, sometimes it works fine, sometimes
 it hooks the machine. I will try to find it out. Remember, i still have the
 Release 1 of AS225.

>
> >
> > I hope there will be BSD-sockets in a future version, so we could easily port
> > Unix-Software (using gcc for example).
>
> This has been available to developers for almost a year.

 A year ? Well, where is the new AS225 then ? A year should be sufficient
 to test all the criterias and discover problems.

[...]
> AS225 release 1 came out 2 years ago.  Release 2 should fix most of the
> major problems.

 Let's hope so. I would like to have it this year if possible...
[...]
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From: ieeu0025@cs.montana.edu (Craig Keenan)
Subject: A500 denise probs
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:43:48 GMT

Gurus,

A friend and I just installed an adspeed and adIDE/Quantum 52lps IDE into his
500.  I connected the 6 watt consuming hard drive to the floppy power connector
and everything seemed to work fine (note: this system has a bigfoot power supply).  Shortly later some pixels on the screen (of a certain color) start to flicker.  Feeling the denise chip, it seems to be quite warm and when a fan is applied to the chip the flickering stops after a short while.  Another note: the flick-
ering does not start until the system is on for awhile.  Is it possible that we
might have zapped the denise chip while installing, by a static chrg?  Would it 
heat up like this if it had an internal problem?  This problem persists even
after we remove the shuffleboard (boot floppy shifter) and the hard drive.  
Could the power circuit to the denise chip somehow have got damaged?  My friend
is quite distraut with this development, so any helpful suggestions would be
very welcomed.  Thanks ahead of time.

ieeu0025@amin.ee.montana.edu
Craig Keenan
From: davids@cats.ucsc.edu (Dave Schreiber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP:  A3000 & 1Mx4 SC-ZIPS (70ns) ?
Date: 22 Nov 92 05:23:35 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Nov21.093351.7872@athena.mit.edu> fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei) writes:

>Bad news.. the price of memory recently (a few weeks ago) took a big jump
>in price..  I'm not sure about the details.. perhaps somebody else could
>enlighten us..  It'll probably be more like $200 now.  :(  Btw, if Memory
>World is still selling 'em for $15.50, tell me! If they are, I'm buying
>4 megs. :)

They're not.  I called up a week ago to check their prices and found them
at $20/chip :-(

>Francis



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From: hanscs@dhhalden.no (HANS CHRISTIAN SANDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 and A2091
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:07:09 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1992Nov15.020952.11995@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
> > I would really like to know WHY...
>>> > C= put off the SCSI controller on the a4000...
>>> > I cannot think of any logical reason, since everyone is changing to scsi...
>>> > Please help ME|
>>> > Thanx, J.I
>>> 
>>> Maybe it wasn't working properly yet and they wanted to get the A4000 
>>> "out the door."
>>
>>Maybe not.
>
>As the proud owner of a new A4000, I can assure everyone that the machine
>was not rushed "out the door".  Everything about the machine feels finished
>and it looks more polished than the A3000, primarily due to the surface
>mounted chips and other touchs.  If anyone cares to see the insides of the
>A4000 in more detail, check out the pictures I have uploaded to wuarchive
>and hubcap.clemson.edu.
> 
>Congratulations to the Engineers at Commodore.

Yeah, congrats. Pitty about the IDE-interface though. Is putting an IDE-
interface on the motherboard of the A4000 the biggest-mistake-of-all-time 
kind of thing? I think it is. Is this mistake Bill Sidneys fault? Did Bill 
get fired? Will the A1200 become the most expensive low-end machine of all 
time(when I add a SCSI/2 32-bits interface, 4 MB fast-ram, 120MB Hard-
Disk and a Commodore 1960 multisync)? I know one thing for shure, I'm gonna 
get a mid-range AGA-machine when commodore (if they)release it. Maby an 
A4000/030 with SCSI on the motherboard(nah, don't think so)? 
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From: skogaas@alkymi.unit.no (John Olav Skog}s)
Subject: Blizzard in A1000 with Sidecar
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:14:17 GMT

Second try:

I am considering bying the Blizzard Turbo card (14 MHz 68000 
and fast RAM, designed for the A500) and put it inside my A1000 
with Sidecar (the bridgeboard for the A1000). Has anyone tried 
to do that, or know if it will work? 

I have an external RAM board, but it doesn't work with the Sidecar... 
However, it would be very nice to have more than 512 KB RAM when using
the Sidecar with my harddrive. To be honest, I am a bit frustrated...
Does anyone have other suggestions?


John Olav Skogaas        - skogaas@alkymi.unit.no
                         - skogaas@solan.unit.no
From: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Printer Driver for 1124i NEEDED!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:17:20 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Nov15.133357.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>If anyone out there has a good printer driver for the Panasonic 1124i,
>could you please let me know where I could get it? I am currently
>using the "PanasonicPlus" V35 R5, but it has a few ANNOYING bugs under
>2.0. If you have a newer version or a better driver please me e-mail
>me. I would be MOST appreciative!!

There  should  be  NO  bug regarding Workbench 2.04 and 3.0 in the
PanasonicPlus  driver.   There is a bug that only shows up on wide
carriage graphic dumps. This bug does no harm to your machine (no
crashes...)... just the output is wrong. This bug will never get
fixed because there is no interest from users...

Anyway, what kind of "ANNOYING bugs" do you have?

All decent Panasonic drivers you can get are commercial:

TurboPrint Prof. from IrseeSoft
            or
Studio  (will be released next week)

>DSeaman@Oread.cc.ukans.edu
>Derek Seaman

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Subject: Printer Driver for 1124i NEEDED!!
From: dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 15 Nov 92 13:33:57 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

If anyone out there has a good printer driver for the Panasonic 1124i,
could you please let me know where I could get it? I am currently
using the "PanasonicPlus" V35 R5, but it has a few ANNOYING bugs under
2.0. If you have a newer version or a better driver please me e-mail
me. I would be MOST appreciative!!

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From: ghazi@wizofhoz.uucp (Ozzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030/MMU on A530 is possible?
Date: 15 Nov 1992 16:37:21 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1689E7950.AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx> AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx (Alejandro J. Kurczyn S.) writes:
>I understand that the GVP's combo thing for the A500, comes with a 40 mhz
>68ec030, is it possible to replace it for the full featured (including
>MMU) 68030? If so, are there any particular problems with the operation
>of the HD/memory/CPU?

	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.
	I'm not sure but I do believe the GVP uses hardware/software for
mapping the KickStart ROMs into 32 bit memory, which is done by the MMU on
an RC030, but there maybe a jumper setting for disabling that function on
your GVP or a software setting to do the same thing.
	I use CPU FASTROM to do it on the VXL, which uses the MMU to map
the KICKROM. I've seen no problems that I can attribute to the MMUed 030 as
of yet.

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