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From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: a1200 hd question
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:18:38 GMT
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Mark Kane (mkane@vsbbs.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan17.4247.25115@dosgate>, "roger bouchard"
: <roger.bouchard@canrem.com> writes:
: >OL>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you couldn't low-level format any
: >OL>IDE hard drive.  This could present a real problem :).
: >OL>Lynn
: >
: >you can if you use the manufactureres specially written utilities . 
: >
: Well call me a idiot but I Formated my Maxtor<sp>120MEG HD with the Format
: command in Amiga DOS and no problems! This might help someone out there I set

That's high-level formatting...

: the max transfer rate to hex 0X1FE00 as per Dealers instructions. This helped
: OPUS work right!.....anyone out there know how to get POPULOUS II to work on HD
: w/A1200!



:                          Hey I want a signature TOO!

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From: uteca041@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Henning Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: to be or not to be
Date: 28 Jan 93 10:13:01 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld

In article <1993Jan27.165027.28450@cbnews.cb.att.com> itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
>In article <C1HMMt.FtI@fishpond.uucp>, fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) writes:
>> In article <schwager.728013412@mike.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
>> >Given Fred's announcement, I don't know what we can reasonable expect from
>> >Netoids.
>>
>> I don't know either, and it's a little early to tell.  The future of the
>> library is literal in the hands of the users.  So far I've had commitments
>> from three or four individuals or user groups to establish a subscription,
>> and Hypermedia Concepts has committed to donating a certain amount per
>> month (above and beyond their subscription) to cover some of the overhead.
>> I should know in about two or three weeks whether the response will be
>> sufficient to make it worthwhile to continue with the library, or put
>> a freeze on new subscriptions and just produce about one batch of disks
>> a month for the next 5 or 6 months and then shutdown the library, refunding
>> any money left from current subscriptions.
>
>Fred,
>
>If you haven't done so already I think you should write to all the Amiga
>mags and let them know what's happening.  Certianly they should recognise
>the impact you have had on the Amiga community.  You might get a few
>articles about Fish Disks, raising the public awarness and hopefully
>increasing your subscriptions.  The word needs to get out to thre rest
>of the world, as most people that hang out around here have access to
>the library via FTP and such are are less likely to subscribe than people
>who rely on the mags to stay current with the Amiga scene.
>
Here in Germany all Amiga mags publish the contents of the disks in German.
Did they have a subscribtion?

Henning


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ibennett@camaro.uucp (Iain Bennett)
Subject: Re: CBM Germany
Organization: camaro
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:57:13 GMT

In article <weigner.3578@rcshq.adsp.sub.org> weigner@rcshq.adsp.sub.org (Jan Weigner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.163009.29399@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> TRECZOKS@rhea.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Christian Treczoks) writes:
>>Dear NetBeings,
>>
>>A friend of mine keeps having problems with the german branch of CBM.
>>So do I. So does our local dealer...
>>Dear Amigoid NetBeings,
>>
>>We are having several problems with the missing support by CBM germany...
>>Several severe problems.
>>
>>Q1: Is it really a problem to get an update from 2.01 to 2.04?
>>    (A newly delivered machine should have at least a NEARLY up-to-date
>>    OS version, IMHO)
The package upgrade for 2.04 over here in Canada is AS314.  There are two versions,
the Super Kick Start which is the soft ROM, and the chip version.

>>
>>Q2: Could anybody from CBM anywhere tell CBM germany about these registered
>>    user groups?
If you have any problems, you could contact Commodore Canada which is "second"
in command after Commodore USA.  Their address is:
 
		Commodore Business Machines
		3470 Pharmacy Ave,
		Agincourt, Ontario, Canada
		M1W ___
 
I'm sorry, I dont' have the postal code off hand, but I will post the address
on the network so keep a look out for it.

>
>
>I mean what do you expect from CBM, they are so fucking small company-wise
>Our local home savings bank has higher revenues than CBM worldwide and also
>makes more profit.
>

You need to contact their head quarters in Europe.  I am assuming that Germany
is NOT or maybe it is, the head quarters for CBM.  I usually contact CBM Canada
or CBM USA.  Usually it takes a LONG time for them to reply.  I complained
that CATS at Commodore Canada and a copy of the developers information kit
was not sent to me, when I asked for it about four months before.  Within
two weeks, I was sent two copies of everything. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: UNIX lha utility for Amiga .lha archives?
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:09:57 GMT
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Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us?? (martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan23.204046.2108@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
: >Dale E Newton (newton@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu) wrote:
: >: Does anyone know if there is an UNIX "lha" archiving utility which
: >: will decompress Amiga .lha compressed files?  I have tried "lharc" on
: >: our UNIX system here without success.  I would like to unpack a rather
: >: large amiga.lha file in UNIX then download it to my amiga.
: >: Suggestions, tips would be appreciated.
: >: Please email or post.
: >: Thanks.
: >: -newton@stolaf.edu
: >
: >		"I've already explained this once, but repetition is
: >		the very soul of the net."		(from alt.config)
: >

: Is there a lha extractor for VMS?
I'm too lazy to grab the FAQ again... Look at pit-manager.mit.edu in 
pub/usenet/comp.compression.  You want part 1/3...


: Jim 
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From: unseen@mcl.ucsb.edu (Charles F. Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: ****SCSI DAISYCHAINING PROBLEMS****... SOLVED!!!
Date: 24 Jan 93 03:07:23 GMT




	I finally found the solution to all of the problems with trying to
daisy-chain a second SCSI drive onto my A500. Today I ordered an A4000.
That'll fix it for sure.   :)


	Actually, I'm pretty sure the problem is with the ancient ROMs
	in my Supra controller. But I don't care enough to replace them,
	so screw it...


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@guava.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Quanum ELS hard drive Query
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:22:32 -0500

shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:

>In article <1993Jan21.162701.19633@hulaw1.harvard.edu>, brafman@hulaw1.harvard.edu says most sayishly:
>>I need to get a second hard drive for my 3000, which has its original Quantum
>>52mb LPS.  I see a Quantum 85 mb ELS hard drive being advertised now.  Is this
>>from Quantums new line which replaces the LPS's?  Is this new drive as good as
>>my LPS? 

>Excuse moi if I'm wrong, but I think ELS's are slower than LPS's.  My
>question is, are ELS's less reliable?  My LPS + the builtin C=
>controller make a GREAT couple.  My HD easily recovers 100% from
>write-while-crash errors.  Well, the file in question is 0 bytes, but NO
>HD probs.

Before I begin... the ELS series from Quantum is _not_ replacing the LPS
series. Quantum is still producing the LPS series, although the older
LPS drives (52LPS, 105LPS) will be discontinued soon. The newer 120LPS
and 240LPS are still being manufactured. From my own experience I can
say that they are really reliable and fast drives (the older LPS drives
were reliable, too, but much slower). One drawback... you will probably
never again see a drive as quiet as the 52LPS.

Now to the ELS series. They are more a low cost, but high tech (fewer
parts than the LPS series) alternative to the LPS drives. From what I
can see in advertisments they are darn cheap and are equally reliable
to the LPS drives (same MTBF). In terms of speed they are like the
older LPS series... that means they are still fast drives, but cannot
approach the speed of the newer LPS drives. I have found them to be a
bit noiser, too. In terms of "numbers" I could say 250000 hours MTBF,
32K cache up to 64K cache (depending on size), 1MB transfer rate per
second on my 68030 with a GVP controller. Not capable of synchronous
transfer rate I believe, but default is asynchronous anyway... don't
quote me on this though.

If you have a 52LPS now and add a 85ELS to it, you shouldn't see a
difference in performance at all. If you want more speed you need to
go with the 120LPS drive.

Why should I know? I called Quantum some time ago and discussed this
with someone over there. I also bought a 52LPS, 120LPS, 42ELS, and a
Maxtor 120 (noisy and slow like the 52LPS; I returned it). The ELS is
over in Germany, but my two LPS drives are running 24 hours a day with
no problems whatsoever.

Hope that helped. (I used to be awfully confused about this, too.)

Stefan
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From: engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng)
Subject: Re: The State of Amiga Software...a proposal
Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga.programmer, comp.sys.amiga.applications
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:46:16 GMT

In <1993Jan24.221918.20148@netcom.com> pockets@netcom.com (Sean C. Cunningham) writes:

>	I don't know about you, but when I set up my Workbench display, I
>chose a resolution and refresh I was comfortable with.  I chose screen colors
>that I was comfortable with.  I chose a mouse pointer that I was comfortable
>with and I chose fonts that I was comfortable with.  Most software totally
>ignores what I, the user, am comfortable with and forces me to deal with
>what the programmer was comfortable with.

That's why resources can be defined by the application writers in a
default app-defaults file, and those resources can be overidden by
the user in his .Xdefaults file... under X11.  Unfortunately, on
the Amiga these things are not so straightforward.  There is less of
a defined convention (if there is one at all) for applications.
It is up to the application to use whatever means the programmer
deems fit to use (or ignore) the Prefs.  And the design of Prefs
is not general enough to handle application-specific information
(eg. the font used to print out error messages in CED), so
applications end up inventing their own bizarre configuration
file formats (or not at all).

It's just one of those little things... So X11 isn't as ugly as
some people make it out to be.  It has its advantages.  Certainly
the Amiga has a few things it could learn from X.

>	Commodore can take the initiative and come up with their own 
>program to ensure that the Style Guide's standards are met.

If a package doesn't comply with this guideline then what?  We tar
and compress the offenders and publicly humiliate them?  There has
to be enough of an economic incentive for software houses to go to
the trouble.  Frankly, it's probably cheaper to use Gadtools or
Boopsi and get the look-and-feel for free than to conjure up some
blasphemous GUI from hell using other means.

Ben
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen)
Subject: Re: Need details on programming AGA chipset
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:58:17 GMT

In article <43859@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner) writes:
 > In article <1993Jan20.144727.10156@ugle.unit.no> mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen) writes:
 > >(CBM - f*ck you for not releasing a HRM).
 > 
 > >Morten
 > 
 > Come on man, surely you know the reason--if they did that,
 > everything would break again with every chipset upgrade,
 > and it would take another 8 years for the next (post AGA)
 > chipset!
 > 
 > Jeremy

Nope. You're absolutely wrong. Games and demos will probably break, yes, but not
serious applications. CBM not releasing the hwregister-specs means no demos and
less games which will eventually lead to a dramatic decrease on the salescurve in
Europe. Too bad.

Morten
From: mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NEW AMIGA NEWSGROUP PROPOSAL
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:21:15 EST
Reply-To: mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley)
Organization: Lakes Public Access

shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:

> 
> Very biff-like subject. :)  Anyway, how about:
> 
>   comp.sys.amiga.music
> 
> c.s.a.audio is too general.  That can be digitizers, programming
> waveforms, etc.  IMO, we definitely need c.s.a.music where people can
> announce new mods, talk about music programs, etc.!  So what do you say?
> If this gets enough votes, I'll take it to alt.config and then 'control'
> and get it created.
> 
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I'd like to see this too.  There are so many mods being created that a 
group could be created just for there discussion and announcement.  Plus 
you throw in other types such as Multi-Loop samples, and it should more 
than warrant a new group.
From: ghost@cs.tu-berlin.de (Hartmut Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: 1 MB Chip in A1000 ???
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:30:39 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Hi all !

Why is it so difficult, to advance the A1000 to 1 MB ChipMem ???
I think you only have to change one chip to another (was it Denise or so)
and then you have 1 MB Chip in the A2000, why not in A1000 ????

I hate my small ChipMem and I don't wanna pay much money for a card
(here in Germany you pay approx. 1000 DM for this kind of card and
 this is hell of a lot too much for it).

Bye

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From: rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (roger nelson;S23487)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: EVE or edt/tpu for Amiga??
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:02:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan24.020215.29823
Organization: Washington State University

In article <1993Jan23.161250.2172@msus1.msus.edu> martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
>Is there a port of the EVE (VMS) editor for the amiga computer?
>
>I've grown quite fond of it and was curious.
>
>
>
>Jim Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Subject: Re: 2.1 & translator
Keywords: translator.library, speech
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:29:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.180140.3777@ifi.unizh.ch>, matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
 > In article <38791@cbmvax.commodore.com> ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:
 > >In article <1993Jan27.085830.20577@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
 > >>In article <1993Jan26.213452.19597@sfu.ca>, donison@fraser.sfu.ca (Brad Donison) writes:
 > >> >[..] So has the AmigaOS completely lost the
 > >> > text to speach ability?  [..]
 > >>Don't know why you didn't get it (I think C= dropped it for some
 > >>STUPID reason), but try copying the narrator.device over from 1.3 (or
 > >>2.04, preferably) as well as the translator.library.  It SHOULD work.
 > >
 > >You need three things to restore your Amiga's speech capability: 
 > >
 > >1) LIBS:translator.library 
 > >2) DEVS:narrator.device
 > >3) L:speak-handler
 > 
 > 4) A mountlist for Speak:
 > 
 > What did I forgot? :-)
 >   Matija

Hmm...  I'm DEFINITELY losing articles.  Damn UNIX sh*t ;).  Anyway, you only need
the speak-handler (w. mountlist) if you're going to use the SPEAK: device.  Say,
SpeechToy et al work fine without SPEAK:.

 > >> > (*        contact:  donison@sfu.ca                  *)
 > >> \X/   |         eyvind@lise.unit.no | Quote me and EAT LAWYER, asshole!
 > Best regards from Matija Milostinik           : matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch

-Eyvind

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From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Validation problems under 2.1
Keywords: amiga, harddrive, validate, errors
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:30:34 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <ddosch.727619900@faatcrl> ddosch@faatcrl.faa.gov (David J. Dosch) writes:
>After my recent conversion from OS1.3 to OS2.1, I've been having
>periodic harddrive problems.

>OS2.1 won't let you delete anything from a disk that shows 0K free,
>or that isn't validated.  (My Amiga shows 0K free when these errors
>occur, even though there was over 70Meg free!).

Well, I think the 0K free is a symptom, not the problem; I filled a partition
up yesterday under 2.1, and I managed to delete some files with no trouble.

>  Last night, while using A64 to read a file from a C64 drive to my Amiga
>it hung up leaving me high and dry (and my disk unValidated). 
> Does anyone have an idea where I can a utility to recover from this
> Unvalidated status?

Well, usually if you leave the machine alone for several minutes it'll
revalidate the disk - it can take several minutes for a big partition though;
That caught me out some time back; I'd been rebooting before it had time to
finish, then I went off for a coffee and it had sorted itself out when I got
back.

(A2000/2.1/Gvp33MhzCombo/1G in several 100M+ partitions/SCSI tape).




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