HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630
Summary: Say WHAT???
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:52:38 GMT
Organization: Xetwnk Industries, Ltd.

In article <63021@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:
>Pat,
>
>Unfortunately, the 4MB on the 2630 is configured in your 8MB of RAM
>expansion room. With a 4MB 2630 and the Bridgeboard, you'll only be
>able to add 2MB of 16-bit RAM.
>
>Denny Atkin                | dennya@cup.portal.com          | "No matter where

Say WHAT???  I thought the whole 'beauty' of the 2620/2630 accelerator boards
was the fact that their *32bit* ram was 'outside' of the standard Amiga
autoconfig ram space, and thus with a BB, you could have 6Meg of 16Bit
ram in the 'standard' autoconfig address [+ 1Meg of chip / 2Meg of chip if
you have MegaChip/a 3000 for a total of 7/8Meg] and however much 32bit
ram that was supported by the board [like the 112 meg that you can stuff
on the DKB memory board for the 2630card] thus, making the BB system much
more viable/useable...

Can anybody [Dave Haynie you 'listening' ?] support this/refute this please!?

-dcp / a very confused SOON to be owner of a 2000 + BB that was hoping to have
       more than 7/8Meg of ram in his machine...



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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: KICKSTART 2.0 PROBLEM
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:45:29 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <9463@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>, peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
> In article <Bs744n.Bsz@dei.unipd.it> andsk@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Andrea Rafreider 307318/il) writes:
>>
>>I've recently bought 2.0 ROMS ( or should I say EPROMS ) for my lovely A500 .
> 
> Umpf. As far as I know there are *NO* legal KS 2.0 *EPROMs* out for the
> A500! Sorry this won't help your problem, but you obviously have also
> another one...

There has been at least one company selling an EPROM version of 2.04 ROMS.
I've seen them.  :-/

James

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: adept@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Adept)
Subject: Couple of SCSI hardware questions...
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:57:44 GMT

I have a Quantum Q280 and an Archive 5495 Tape Backup system that I am
having major problems getting to work with my A3000.  Any help on the
following questions would be greatly appreciated. :)

	Both of these units were removed from a Counterpoint Unix box.
When the Q280 is hooked to the bus on powerup, the machine hangs with
the HD light on when the drive is queried.  By pushing on the power
cable, the drive looses power for a moment and the system will boot.
Once booted, HDToolbox will do the same thing when it queries the drive.
The drive seems to low level format OK after this and will verify about
69000 blocks before it locks up.  In any case it is never recognized on
bootup and always locks up the system when any partitioning or complex
information is saved to the drive.  The drive worked in the Counterpoint, 
so I assume the drive is ok.  If anyone has a Q280 hooked up to their Ami, 
I would be interested in the how's and why's and jumper connections. :)

	The Archive has an Emulex board hooked to it.  The SCSI connects
into the Emulex and the Emulex to the Archive.  When on the bus, the
machine will not boot at all.  Any hints or help again is appreciated.

		Thanks all.  Please use Email to respond as I do not
		read that much news. :)

			Dan Stephans II

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:13383 comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:5442
From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

Bryan Williams wrote in
<1992Jul27.044951.8006@afterlife.ncsc.mil>:

> The nice thing about PC's is that they DON'T NEED EXTRA
> SOFTWARE!!!! It is all supported through the COM1: thru
> COM4: bios support, plug & play, basically.

The BIOS only supports transfer rates of up to 9600 bps
(19200 using the 14h/04h BIOS function available on PS/2
machines), so most high-speed MS-DOS datacomm programs (have
to) hit the hardware directly. (Not to mention that you're
basically limited to a total of four ports.) In other words:
the "driver" is part of your application software, and - one
way or the other - _does_ contribute to what you have to pay
for the latter.

> In case no one has noticed, in general, when you have
> hardware products, the software is generally FREE

Oh really? Where can I get a free MS-DOS, a free MS-Windows,
a free DR-DOS, a free OS/2, a free SVR4, a free Amiga OS
2.0, etc.? Just because something is an intrinsic part of a
package doesn't mean it's free (unless we're using different
definitions for the word "free" here).

TANSTAAFL.

Ralph

P.S.: To the best of my knowledge, GVP haven't even
announced the price of the I/O Extender card yet.
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 2.0, 1992/06/25 01:41:36
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:07:21 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <1992Jul24.153748.23488@hubcap.clemson.edu>, charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) wrote:
> I think that it's a bit early for "2.0-only" major applications.  PD stuff
> and little utilities, yes.  But not stuff like WP's.

Just out of curiosity, *are* there any "2.0-only" major applications
yet? The closest I've seen are some applications (I wouldn't call any
of them "major") that lost features under pre-2.0, or had two
versions with the same functionality; the 2.0-only one was just
smaller, faster, and had 3d buttons.

	<mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Atari Falcon  Re: Amiga 4000
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:50:03 GMT
From: fspck@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Internal Serial Port.
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:24:18 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ok, looking through the schematics of my 2500 the other day, I noticed
something.  I am sure you guys may have seen it.  The internal serial port.  I
shows that it is connected to the external serial and the 8520.  With this in
my machine, woudl it be possible to write a driver for it, and put another (in
essence) serial port on my machine.  it is in Appendix F-5.  It shouws it
clearly, and I have seen it.  The pins exist in my system.  I wouldn't mind
wiring up a cable and running it to one of the bay openings in back, if
it woul give me another serial port.
Have any ideas??
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Address Map
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:40:51 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany



In article <1992Jul28.233944.28144@ennews.eas.asu.edu> prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado) writes:
>Can someone provide a memory map of the Amiga which illustrates the address
>space of the custom chips, CIA's etc.

Hmm, the official Amiga Memory Map contains exactly one entry:
ExecBase pointer  4

*ALL* other hardware addresses are supposed to change, though the CIA's
and custom chips hopefully won't and didn't until now. But the clock chip 
already did change its address!

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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on CBM and VXL accel wanted...
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 12:51:36 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Well, I just recieved my 2 MB VXL memory and  an 8 mb one for a customer.
The system preforms much better with the 32 bit RAM installed(about 3 times
faster on AIBB4.5, some tests as much as 10 times faster!!).  It is easy to
install and my 40 mhz one has worked well.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:30:59 GMT

In article <62741@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>I just had a funny thought.
>
>The Amiga has been battered in the past few years by cheap clones,
>Macs, ad nauseum, but this type of threat to their markets hasn't
>prompted a new machine at the high end.
>
>Wouldn't it be ironic if an Atari Falcon were to force CBM to
>come out with a new high end machine?
>
>That would be so wacky...it's probably what will happen.


That is VERY possible!  But C= spent so much money making CDTV 
they took money away from A4000 project.  Even Kickstart 3.0/39.
text shows AA chips only have double speed so C= MUST spend
more money to design better chips.

Also big RUMOR says A800 will come out many months later than
Atari Falcon so Commodore will be in big rush like A1000 project.
When C= use time and money better they will good coputer but C=
managers are now WORST in industry.
From: ranjit@synopsys.com (Ranjit Padmanabhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Are MAC SIMMs suitable for the Amiga?
Date: 26 Jul 92 17:48:16 GMT
Organization: Synopsys Inc.

I was shopping around for SIMMs to install within my Amiga, into the RAM card
that comes with the GVP A2000-HC8II/105Q + 8MB RAM Card unit, and came across
the following line items in a local ad:

[The shop is in the SF South Bay area, and I can offer details upon request]

Heading: MEMORY SIMMS

Type	Speed	Desc		Price
   :
1MBX8	80ns	new MACs	$ 25
1MBX8	80ns	All MACs	$ 28
   :

Which of these, if any, could I use for my Amiga 2000?

On a slightly tangential topic, could I use all of the above with Workbench
1.3?

Please e-mail responses or post, to this newsgroup, comp.sys.amiga.hardware.

Thanks very much,
Ranjit
ranjit@synopsys.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tomme@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Thomas Holmstr|m)
Subject: Re: "Battery backed up clock not found" ??
Keywords: battery, clock, hardware, memory
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 08:12:04 GMT

tomme@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Thomas Holmstr|m) writes:
>...
>"setclock opt [save|load|reset]" tells me. I have had some problems before
>...

	Thanks for the aswers I got by mail. Stephen (S.D.) Keppel-Jones
thought there is a bug in the 1.3 version of the SetClock command. He
suggested v1.3.2 but I tried the v2.04 and YES! Now it works!
	Thanks again for the help.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: stich@uhphys.phys.uh.edu (CHRISTIAN STICH)
Subject: Re: A1000 ECS ?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:04:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.181107.28894@ninja.zso.dec.com>, Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com> writes...
>In article <al158305.711682867@academ01> al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila) writes:
>>M23150@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
>>>Does anyone know if it is possible to obtain the new Denise chip with
>>>the new display modes for the A1000.  I have WB2.04 and would really
>>>like to have the extended graphics modes for the workbench.
>>
>>   You *can* plug in the ECS Denise chip in place of the old (very old :)
>>Denise, no problem, they're plug in compatible.
> 
>While they indeed are "plug" compatible, they are *not* "pin"
>compatible.  The ECS Denise requires some additional signals not
>provided by the A1000 Denise socket.  You could probably hack the
>additional signals, but there's no point.  See below.
> 
>>What I don't know is if you need the ECS Agnus to be able to harness
>>the new modes, specially the more esoteric ones.
> 
>Yes, you need an ECS Agnus too, which won't work in the A1000.  I don't
>know for sure, but a Rejuvinator would probably allow both the ECS


In Appendix C on page 299 of the Amiga Hardware reference manual (edition) it 
says:
    At present there are four possible settings. A value of 20 or 30 
    indicates that the enhanced HighRes Agnus is present.

         8361 (regular NTSC) or  8370 (fat NTSC) = 10 for NTSC
         8367 (regular PAL)  or  8371 (fat PAL)  = 00 for PAL
 ->      8368 (hr)           or  8372 (fat-hr)   = 20 for PAL, 30 for NTSC 

Notice that the 8368 follows the 8367 but comes numerically before any of 
the fat Agnus versions.
This seems to indicate that someone at C= was at least planning a 
Super (non fat) Agnus for the A1000 (or maybe the A2000A ?) which would 
still only address 512 KB of chip mem, but allow the ECS video modes such as 
Productivity and Super-Hires.  When I tried to order one through the local 
dealership, they couldn't find an order number in Commodore's parts catalog,
though.
				Christian    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Re: GVP G_Force Boards
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:21:57 CDT


In article <mcgradyj.712129312@marsh>, mcgradyj@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (James McGrady) writes:
> Hi All
> 
> Can someone tell me if the GVP G-force accelerator/HD series allow access
> to the HD in 68000 mode. I've heard it said that this is not possible on some
> models. Is this true across the board ???
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim


    While in 68k mode ( IF you can get there!! ) it is NOT possible to 
 access any SCSI devices on the GForce accel board FROM the 68000.  


    Daniel Baehr
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Subject: Re: Sparc coprocessors
Keywords: coprocessors, sparc, bridgeboard
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:03:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.011300.475@samba.oit.unc.edu> Donald.Kennedy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Donald Kennedy) writes:
>I've seen some Sparc clones on a card recently that are pretty much host
>independant (much like the  CBM Bridgeboards, requiring a host system of
>AT class or greater only for I/O). What would be the demand for a
>parasitic Sparc system on an Amiga?

>I've determined that there are 3 ways to do it:
>
>1. Use a real AT Bridgeboard for I/O.
>2. Use a Palomax-type bridge jumper with custom Amiga drivers
>3. Use an Amiga ethernet card and run the sucker through X-windows on the 
>   Amiga itself.

You are talking about Opus Systems Personal Mainframe SPARCcards.
We have the SS1+ card, but they have a SS2 card available now.
I have serious doubts that it would actually work.  It is pretty hardware
sensitive.

>Another cool thing about these cards is that they have their own graphics
>output, including optional frame buffers. I think it could be pretty cool
>to run some of the free UNIX graphics utilities on a fast Sparc system....

Actually, you route your VGA card through the SPARCcard and it passes
the signal along when you are using the PC, and then takes over when you
are running the SPARC.  Basically, you hit some hotkey 3 times (shift key
in our case), and it toggles between DOS and SPARC (SunOS 4.1.2 works
fine on this board).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 questions
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:20:18 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

In article <92203.170948ISOCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <ISOCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
> I would go for the nec4gf the difference between the two monitors is that the
> 4gf is 19"

I never heared of a 4gf, you probably mean the 4FG, that is the one I have at home
and it is 15", the advantage is that this monitor is non-interlaced.
From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Digitizing Frames for a VHS Videotape
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:45:23 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

What is the best way to digitize 24 bit IFF's from a running
VHS videotape?   I imagine I could use pause to freeze the frames,
but pause on the VCR I would use jitters a bit

-Roger
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From: Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Palomax Adapter...
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:50:19 GMT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

In a message dated Sat 24 Jul 92  9:23, Leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (thomas Va
wrote:

 LV> Have another adapter with a 16 bit slot, and an 8 bit slot wired on
 LV> top of that... it's theoretically possible to pop two controllers in
 LV> there for 4 drives... but what I'm more interested in... is it even
 LV> remotely possible to pop in say... a memory card? 

  Not really... those slots are designed for PC harddrive controller cards,
and are not directly accessable from the amiga end, so they could not hold
RAM...

  However a SupraRAM 500RX with the pass thru will happily fit between your
amiga and the palomax card for up to 8 megs of RAM...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mmoore@cs.ulowell.edu (Michael P. Moore)
Subject: Re: A600 HD ?
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:57:36 GMT

>
>No Zorro.. (the A500 hadn't a Zorro slot either). You will find more
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The A500 and A1000 both have a zorro slot.  According to the a500/a2000 tech
manual, the slot on the side of the a500 and the a1000 are Zorro I slots
That's why the a2000 has Zorro II slots and the a3000 has Zorro III.

>
>Regards,
>-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:19:05 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <pat_meloy.0ex6@outb.wimsey.bc.ca> by pat_meloy@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Pat Meloy):

> a problem. However, I also have 4 megs of 32 bit memory on my 2630 card and
> I'm wondering if this is automatically mapped outside the normal 9 meg or
> not (In other words, will I still be cut off at 6 megs of ram?)

    It won't be mapped outside the normal 9MB. If someone knows a way
    to get it to do so, PLEASE post!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: merril@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Merril Locke)
Subject: Re: GVP G_Force Boards
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:51:20 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.120205.2613@walter.cray.com> paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr) writes:
>
>In article <1992Jul27.150704.13835@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>, jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
>> From article <1992Jul27.072158.29903@walter.cray.com>, by paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr):
>> > 
>> > In article <mcgradyj.712129312@marsh>, mcgradyj@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (James McGrady) writes:
>> >> Hi All
>> >> 
>> >> Can someone tell me if the GVP G-force accelerator/HD series allow access
>> >> to the HD in 68000 mode. I've heard it said that this is not possible on some
>> >> models. Is this true across the board ???
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks
>> >> 
>> >> Jim
>> > 
>> > 
>> >     While in 68k mode ( IF you can get there!! ) it is NOT possible to 
>> >  access any SCSI devices on the GForce accel board FROM the 68000.  
>> >
>> 
>> I don't have one of these cards yet, but most people who do say
>> that they never (almost?) use 68000 mode.  Under what
>> circumstances would one want to use 68000 mode? 
>> -- 
>> "Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
>
>   Well more to the point. WHY does GVP advertise it on the package and
> when someone calls in because they cant get it to work GVP says "We 
> havn't found a reason to use the 68k mode."  Make it work 100% of the 
> time or stop advertising that you can do it!  Or at least give the user
> help in getting it to work.  The conversation about the problem between
> the user and GVP was told to me second hand by the user.  He MAY have
> misunderstood what was said because he was, understandably, upset to 
> say the least.  But I believed him because I have had that type of
> conversation with GVP.  When I have to spend $500+ of MY OWN money to
> cover a vendors mistake I think VERY LITTLE of them!!!!  I don't like
> GVP, peroid.
>
>  
>
>   Daniel Baehr
>
>
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I have a GVP G-Force 030 and have no problems going back to 68k mode as I 
tried it once to see if it worked.  I haven't found a reason to use it 
again though.  
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy 
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:48:58 GMT

But consider that many IBM BIOS are imcompatible with IDE drives, that
furthermore, many of them are limited to a specific subset of drives, or
have to bypass the BIOS to install the drives...

Thom

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: zxmgn01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Philipp Knirsch)
Subject: A590 ROM update???
Summary: Searching rom update for A590
Keywords: A590
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:01:18 GMT

Hi.
I have one of thos original A590 Commodore XT/SCSI controllers with the
ROM version 4.6
Now i wonder if it could be possible to update the ROM version (like with
the GVP controllers) and what i would bring, that is would it increase
performance somewhat or whatever.

If it would be necessary, i can let the EPROMs burn at a friend, so the
files for newer version would be enough.

Read ya, Phil

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