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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 18:08:04 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
> my DD (Double Density) floppies.

How come? Any 1.44Mb 3.5" HD floppy on a PC will read properly formatted 720Kb 
3.5" DD floppies. Perhaps you have not successfully formatted the disk. Try to 
format it to 720Kb at the PC system and then copy som files onto it on your 
Amiga.

> (do not reply "I found a PC with a DD drive").

As soon as you have found a HD drive, you have found a DD drive too. :)

> What happened to the "say" utility/speak handler (even if it was
> a bit naff)?

Commodore decided not to pay for the licence and dropped the narrator support. 
Too bad.

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From: tim@corcoran.rain.com (tim corcoran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is the Canon Bubble Jet any good?
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:28:39 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1993Jan6.002426.26216@news.unomaha.edu> marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold) writes:
> I am interested in a good printer.  
> 
> I have seen Canon's BJ printer advertised at Best Buy for around $350

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You don't say which BJ printer, and there are several available.

I recently bought a BJ200 for $360 at CompuAdd, and it's a fantastic 
little printer. There are good drivers for ALL the canon printers on a 
recent Fish disk (high 690's I think) and some new ones are due soon.

As for laser printers, sure they have advantages in speed etc, but consider 
how much you'll use the printer, whether it will print on various types of 
paper you might wish to use, how much toner costs etc. 

Highest resolution on the BJ200 is 360x360 which is more than most Laser 
printers and in most printouts I think the BJ is sharper than a Laserwriter II
I use at work.


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From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 screen defect
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:41:42 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>There is a narrow black horizontal line that extends along the
>screen about 1-2 pixels from the bottom.  It is not visible in all
>video modes.  It is visible on the insert WB disk screen.  About
>half-way across the screen it becomes a lighter shade and then
>becomes dark again.  Is this a symptom of a defective chip, design
>flaw, or monitor problem?
>
My 1200 doesn't do that, it sound kindof like a mointor problem or
incompability.   What kind of monitor are you using, and what modes?

Robert Comer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd)
Subject: Seagate self diagnostic jumpers wanted!
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:56:00 GMT

I have an ST125N which doesn't seem to be responding to any controller
I try. 
I talked to a local computer rep who suggested I call the Seagate
Techies and ask for the jumpers for the self diagnostic for the
drive (if it has one. some drives don't).
It will flash the led in a certain series if the drive is ok
and likewise to various problems.

If you know the jumpers or work for Seagate, please
email me back.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: How to put a CLock in A1200
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:39:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.025626.12321@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
>Jeff Easton (easton@zds-oem.zds.com) wrote:

[...]

>:   Sheesh.  Lighten up.  All the pads for a real time clock and battery
>: are there on the motherboard.  It looks like Engineering did the 
>: Right Thing (tm) and accounted for the possibility.  Its the marketing
>: guys who told them to de-populated it and they arent on the net.
>
>How easy would a DIY project be to put in your own clock?

  The easiest would be to get the components and solder them onto the
board at the locations provided.  The clock chip is an SOIC surface
mount part though.  The next best solution for people uncomfortable
with surface mount parts but are good at wire wrapping (:-) is a 
small daughter board that plugs into the provided header.  Either
way, if you dont know what your doing I wouldnt advise you try it.
Hopefully, somebody will come out with a $49.00 module that you can
plug in yourself.

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From: Magnus_Thelander@p18.atb.bbs.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with Accelerator needed
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:26:11 GMT
Reply-To: Magnus_Thelander@p18.atb.bbs.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Organization: The final frontier, Lund, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

In a message of Tuesday the 22 December 17:59:00, Internet Gateway wrote:

 IG> It's a CBM 2620. Does it automatically recognize the 32bit ram on
 IG> board or do jumpers have to be set to 0, 2, or 4 meg.

C= A2620 Jumper configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

J302 must be installed for proper operation on 4-layer motherboards.

J200 specifies the clock used by the 68881 FPU. As shipped, the FPU
uses the basic 14.3 MHz clock also used by the 68020 and 68851. If a
faster 68881 or 68882 is installed with the appropriate crystal
module, moving J200 to the lower  position will route that module's
output to the 68881.

J301 specifies the amount of RAM installed in the A2620. When no
jumper is in place, the system expects 2 megabytes. With the jumper in
place, the system expects 4 megabytes.

J303, when installed, disables all A2620 DRAM.

J304 selects which operating system to autoboot. When no jumper is in
place, the system autoboots Amiga DOS. With the jumper in place, the
system autoboots UNIX (assuming you have UNIX on a hard drive or tape
drive).

J500, as shipped, sets the RAM timing to 100 nanoseconds. Moving it
requires 80 nanoseconds DRAM.

Yours truly, Magnus

"When the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus)
Subject: Re: a1200 ide problems
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
Distribution: comp
Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:09:16 GMT

uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:

>Many IDE drives have buggy firmware, which does not allow xfrs greater
>than 65535 bytes, set your maxtransfer back to something less than
>65535 byytes.  Quantum for example, acknowledges this bug in
>their 120 and 240M IDE drives.

>-Roger
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>bix: ruzun
>NET: uzun@crash.cts.com

Ok, a friend of mine just got an 85MB Maxtor 2585AT (2.5") for his A1200
and it exhibits this problem. I know I've seen it mentioned in vivid 
detail on here once before, but... Can someone give me specific examples
of what to do about this maxtransfer bug (with the drives, not FFS).
I've looked at it on my 4000 and it's 0xFFFFFFF(?)... I'm not too handy
at converting hex numbers of that size in my head. Is the default something
like 16+ Megs? What do I put for 128K maxtransfer? What about 64K? Do you
have to worry with making the value end at an even byte value to avoid 
any slowdowns from bit shifting or anything like that? Anyone with this
particular drive (it's pretty cheap compared to many) then as far as I
can tell it does exhibit the above-mentioned bug. Have no idea of the
firmware rev on it though. Please respond as soon as someone can, I'll
be installing two of these drives in about 4 days :-) Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: Printer problem with Final Copy II
Keywords: Genlock Final Copy Printer
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:44:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.043208.28919@bnr.ca> bill@bnr.ca (Bill Brocklebank) writes:
>Don't know if this is the right group, so I hope someone can help.
>
>A friend has an amiga 2000, 80meg hard drive, 2 - 3.5 floppies,
>1 - 5.25 floppy, bridge card, and a Commodore Genlock. It's connected
>to a Star NP-10 printer. He just had Workbench 2.0 installed.
>
>Two problems:
>
>1. He just got Final Copy II for Xmas (and had to upgrade to 2.0
>   Workbench). When he tries to print documents, it won't print text

What do you mean "Had to upgrade to 2.0?"  Does this mean that FC II won't
run on a machine that doesn't have 2.0?  Mine runs fine on a 1.3 system.

>   or pictures. If he chooses the postscript print option, the
>   postscript text prints fine on the printer. Printing from 
>   Notepad, or Paint works fine. We went through the printer setup
>   panel when I was there, and tried a number of different 
>   combinations, all to no avail. Interestingly, the resolution

Were you using Graphic Printer (Final)?

>   selector, which goes from 1-7 always shows 300/300 DPI although
>   the manual seems to indicate they should change. Anyone who can
>   help?

Mine changes if I slide the Density slider.

>
>2. Because the Genlock is installed, he cannot boot the amiga unless he
>   plugs in a video source and turns the video source on. (This was 
>   also true when he had the Workbench 1.3 ROM installed.) This is a
>   major headache. Any one know a solution (short of removing the Genlock)?

Probably a bent pin on the genlock and amiga connectors?  Genlock defective?

>
>Please e-mail responses since I'm not a regular reader of this news
>group, although I'll scan it for the next couple of days if thats the
>only way you can send it. Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE (Dingbats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SyQuest makes drive lights blink- why?
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:56:43 GMT
	<C0M9H5.AKv@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan10.020453.62591@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden

In article <1993Jan10.020453.62591@cc.usu.edu> slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:

>    The "click" and blink is rather stupid.  You'd think that they'd think
>    up a better solution, like a button the disk hold in when you insert the
>    disk, or a light and sensor combination.  Why the "click"?
The click is necessary because the drive doesn't check it's
disk-inserted-status otherwise.  Well the click is not really useful
anymore. On some old drives there where no sensor stopping the head
from moveing past track 0 so what they do is step between track 0 and
track 1. On newer systems one can disable the click, by makeing the
drive try to step from track 0 to track -1, which it obviously can't.
The light blinks as soon as the drive is accessed, eventhou i think
that the specs for the drives say that the light should indicate
whether or not the drive is spinning. Most drives just blink the light
as soon as you access them.
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From: Magnus_Thelander@p18.atb.bbs.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with Accelerator needed
Date: 27 Dec 92 16:58:57 GMT
Reply-To: Magnus_Thelander@p18.atb.bbs.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Organization: The final frontier, Lund, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

In a message of Tuesday the 22 December 17:59:00, Internet Gateway wrote:

 IG> It's a CBM 2620. Does it automatically recognize the 32bit ram on
 IG> board or do jumpers have to be set to 0, 2, or 4 meg.

C= A2620 Jumper configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

J302 must be installed for proper operation on 4-layer motherboards.

J200 specifies the clock used by the 68881 FPU. As shipped, the FPU
uses the basic 14.3 MHz clock also used by the 68020 and 68851. If a
faster 68881 or 68882 is installed with the appropriate crystal
module, moving J200 to the lower  position will route that module's
output to the 68881.

J301 specifies the amount of RAM installed in the A2620. When no
jumper is in place, the system expects 2 megabytes. With the jumper in
place, the system expects 4 megabytes.

J303, when installed, disables all A2620 DRAM.

J304 selects which operating system to autoboot. When no jumper is in
place, the system autoboots Amiga DOS. With the jumper in place, the
system autoboots UNIX (assuming you have UNIX on a hard drive or tape
drive).

J500, as shipped, sets the RAM timing to 100 nanoseconds. Moving it
requires 80 nanoseconds DRAM.

Yours truly, Magnus

"When the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table."
    ---Baldrick
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths)
Subject: A1200 problems...
Summary: A problem with my A1200...
Keywords: A1200 BUGS GURU PROBLEMS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:21:09 GMT

I've noticed a problem with my A1200 and want to know if anyone else
is having the same problem... On my A1200, approx 3 minutes after
booting up, I start getting "sparkles" on my monitor.  Chunks of
graphics info which are on the same scanline, but shifted a few inches
to the right.  The resulting lines flicker quite badly, and distort
the display quite a bit, although only in non-standard modes
(DBL-NTSC, productivity, Super-Hires, etc.)  It looks find in normal
NTSC/PAL resolutions.

The lines appear to vanish after a few minutes, however if I then
change the number of colours on the screen (say 8 to 256), the machine
gurus.

I figure this is a defect with one of the new chips (Alice?), and am
going to return it early next week, however I was wondering if anyone
else was having problems.

Otherwise a great machine.  I tried a few games with it (including
Leander), and they all worked fine.  I'll probably post a list later
tommorow on a more complete selection of games.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: walter@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Walter Lawlor)
Subject: Autoboot problems on DataFlyer 500
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:33:00 GMT

I have a Dataflyer 500 with a Quantum LPS120 HD connected to my A500 with 
kickstart 1.3.  My problem is that I cannot get the HD to autoboot.  I need to
use the floppy as a boot disk to get the HD going. I use the startup disk
as instructed but it will not work.  It only works in the way a KS 1.2 should
work as described in the manual.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I
am doing wrong?  Why will the drive not auto-boot?  What should I do 
to correct this.  It is getting annoying to wait for the slow floppy to work
when the system is supposed to autoboot.

Any help would be greatly appreiciated!  Please reply in e-mail to save
bandwidth.

Thanks in advance,
   Walter Lawlor

walter@garfield.cs.mun.ca
walter@odie.cs.mun.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock)
Subject: Re: How does 2.04 perform on A500???????????????????
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:21:39 GMT

In article <C04BGz.7KA@newcastle.ac.uk> I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:
>
>From what I've seen, WB2.04 performs a little slowly on your bog standard Amiga.
>
>If you want to use it seriously, I think a processor accelerator is a good idea.
>
>If WB3.0 becomes available, you'll DEFINITELY need a faster machine.

Kickstart 3.0 is faster, not slower, than 2.0.

Dan
From: cg82s85@instem.uucp (Chris Golchert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP crap
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.975
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:16:19 EDT
Organization: The Institution - Chesterfield Twp. MI

 
     Reading the newer magazines I notice that Vector has come
out with an accelerator for the Amiga that will let you fall back
to the 68000 mode and use the SCSI controller and extra
memory.  GVP has their accelerators that are supposed to be "Top of
the line" but kill the SCSI drives and the extra memory.  If top
of the line means a big name makes it, the smaller companies are
going to get more of the business. Plus I don't see how Amazing
Computing can give GVP their award for "Best Service/Customer
support" (Dec. 1992) when a call to GVP about the RAD/Impact II
problem (rad is will NOT survive a reboot w/ the Impact II)
resulted in a "why would you want to boot from rad?" reply.  If
the are going to be the best company in that field shouldn't they
at least make their products work with the operating system?

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From: unseen@mcl.ucsb.edu (Charles F. Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ***** SCSI DAISY-CHAINING PROBLEM *****
Date: 4 Jan 93 06:23:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

Here's the deal: I borrowed a 52meg external hard drive so I could back
my hard drive up to it.

I hook it up, fire it up with my system, and everything works
fine. For a while. But pretty soon, as I'm copying files from my HD, I start
getting a few disk errors: read, write, key not set, bad header, all sorts.
So I try using my second partition, and get more of the same errors.

I use QBTools to fix the problems, and 30 seconds after exiting the program,
two dozen more disk errors appear!  Even wierder, my floppy drives are doing
the same thing!! If I try to format a floppy, it breaks with a read/write
error message. Before long, both my floppies, both my HD partitions, and the
borrowed HD are completely worthless. They've all been invalidated, so I
can't write to them, and 80% of the files I try to access either report some
sort of disk error, or crash the system.

I tried reformatting the borrowed drive; same thing happened all over
again as soon as I rebooted.  I finally just gave up and disconnected the
drive, then spent an hour with QBtools trying to fix all the damage to mine.
Didn't lose anything, tho.
	Any ideas on why this would happen?

	VITAL STATISTICS:

	A500 with 5 megs ram
	Supra SCSI interface (the OLD kind, w/separate i'face and HD cases)
	Quantum 85 Meg HD, two partitions (20 and 65)
	Seagate 52meg HD, ST157 I think. (That's the borrowed one).

	The Quantum is connected to the Supra interface, and the Seagate
	is daisy-chained onto the back of the Quantum.

	Not knowing diddly-squat about terminator packs, I didn't mess with
	them. Could that be causing this?

	Thanks for any help you can provide!!!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Clock reseting constantly..
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:00:58 GMT

My clock keeps reseting to the default time (1-Jan-78) every couple days
for no apparent reason.  I wouldn't think that I have crashed the machine
bad enough as many times recently as I've noticed the clock lose it's
time.  (I've crashed her enough times and nailed the clock, so I had
thought of that.)
 
I suspect after a while the battery dies.. :)  After lifting my 500
keyboard and taking a peek, I suspect it's a fairly easy battery to
get ahold of?
 
I have an A501 (the case is off because I chopped a line for the 1 meg
hack) and it's about 3 years old..
 
Any suggestions?
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From: soudan@boole (SOUDAN sebastien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2286 with A3000
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:19:58 GMT
Organization: University of Grenoble (France)

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

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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SyQuest makes drive lights blink- why?
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 12:28:26 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>My new SyQuest 44 meg drive I've posted about has a side effect- its
>activity light flashes once every 2.7 sec or so, and makes the light on
>the internal drive its unwilling slave.  Doesn't seem to be doing any
>writing; no noises coming out.  I have a floppy drive 'noclick' prog
>installed, if anyone thinks that would matter.  What gives?

I've heard this is normal behavior for the SyQuest.  Older Maxtor
drives do the same thing (for a completely different reason...).
Its nothing to worry about, apparently.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
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