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From: phsjs@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stephen J.Smith)
Subject: QUANTUM drive stuck (sticky)
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:37:58 GMT


I have a three year old Quantum PRO 40S drive which I'm not using
now because it doesn't start up. The drive motor appears to
be stuck. If I bash the drive (not recommended) a number of times
a turn the power on, the drive eventually starts. Once it is
going, it works fine.

Does anyone know what can be done about it? A friend told me that
some Quantum drives had the wrong (or too much) grease applied to the
motor spindle and it eventually starts to harden, but this is just
a rumour he heard......

I would like to use the drive for a small archive storage area, but
this problem has become so bad, that it really annoying. At first, it
would require switching the power off/on to get the motor started, but
without some force it is now ridiculous. :(

Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks
Stephen Smith


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: BTNTape driver
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:58:32 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

It sounds like you're using the wrong tape. If you're using a DC600
tape, 60M is all you'll get.

Make sure you're using a DC6150 tape if you want to get 150M.

TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander)
Subject: Re: strange default Termination on GVP Series II
Keywords: amiga SCSI termination hardware
Reply-To: d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander)
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:11:19 GMT

In article <DGILBERT.92Aug11155807@aeshq.uucp> dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert) writes:
>	Anyways, the manual with the Series II says that all terminators
>are removed by GVP at the factory.  I have verified that the Quantum
>is not terminated.  This means that if the Benrouli drive is detached,
>there are no terminators on the SCSI system (that I can find).
>Additionally, if I add an external terminator to the SCSI bus, it
>locks up.
>
>	Now, the benrouli drive has terminators on it, and they work in
>place, but I was under the impression that both ends of the SCSI bus
>were to be terminated.  What gives?

   One end of the bus is probably terminated on the hostdapater's PCB.
This was the case with my GVP series II HC+8 and my GVP G-Force. Un-
fortunately they are soldered in, so if you want, to use both the in-
ternal and external connectors, you'll have to have them desoldered.

Magnus
From: mrr@mrsoft.network23.com (Mark Rinfret)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum hard drives: A Tale of Woe and Heavy Sarcasm.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:08:42 GMT
Organization: MRsoftware
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In article <36763@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, John 'Vlad' Adams writes:

> 
> Sorry to hear of your problems.  My Quantum 240 LPS has been a damn
> good little drive.
> -- 

Ditto! I bought mine at the NY WOC and it's performed beautifully since
it first powered up.

Mark

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From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  16MHz A3000 to 25MHz  (!)  Hardware "Hack"
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:18:41 GMT
Followup-To: Comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

In article <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton) writes:
>Why did C= not socket the CPU?

Motorola themselves, in a recent 680x0 family seminar I
attended last week, were pushing the surface mount packages
for nearly all of their future product offerings. The only
exceptions would be their highest performance parts aimed
at less cost sensitive markets. Even now, the surface mount
part is often much less expensive than the PGA; sometimes
less than 1/2 as much. CBM were saving A3000 owners tens
of $$ of manufacturing cost by using the SMT 68030.

Surface mount sockets are available. Like all sockets, but
much more so, they add cost, decrease reliability, and
consume extra board real estate.

>Is the 3000 a disposable amiga like the A600?

CBM included a CPU slot in the A3000 to ensure that it
remains evergreen under evolving technology. This is much
more than many vendors.

Following the lead of your last comment, I have re-directed
the followup-to line.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Re: LUN 1 SCSI device
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:32:33 CDT


In article <OS0vr*PO0@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> In article <1992Aug11.072220.18797@walter.cray.com>, Daniel Baehr writes:

    [stuff deleted]

> > 
> >    So, make your drive a SCSI ID different from the other devices that are
> >  connected on the chain.  Set the LUN to 0 and you should be fine.  DONT
> >  CONFUSE LUN AND SCSI ID!!  Every device on the SCSI "chain" that is 
> >  connected to the same connector on a controller **MUST** have its OWN
> >  SCSI ID between 0 or 7.  To be really proper the controller should 
> >  allways be ID 0 but noone follows that.
> 
> My understanding was that the controller is supposed to be ID 7.
> 
> Maybe someone can speak with more authority on this issue?
> 

   As I stated in a more receint posting I got this out of a setup manual
 from one of my controllers.  The IVS controllers I have can be any ID   
 you want.  I should not have come across with a "firm" tone about the 
 address of the controller.  
> 
>                                                 Jim Pritchett
> 
> 
> UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
>  or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp


   Daniel Baehr

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From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New A3000T ?!?
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:59:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Carolina State University

jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:
>In article <9208181730.AA00580@aitgw.ge.com> BYRNE@MUPPET.dnet.ge.com writes:
>>anymore since amiga-relay went away.  I was looking through the Sept. '92 
>>issue of Amiga World and I saw an ad for the new A3000T.  I didn't
>
>Amazing as it may be, this ad also appeared in the latest BYTE.
>I may have missed something, but this is the first Amiga ad I
>have ever seen in BYTE.  

Which "latest BYTE"?  :-) Someone had mentioned an Amiga ad in the August
issue (up front), but it's not in my subscriber copy.  Sounds like it
could either be a regional or newstand-edition ad.  Where are you at?

best - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Subject: Re: New A3000T ?!?
Organization: Smith College
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:21:40 GMT

In article <9208181730.AA00580@aitgw.ge.com> BYRNE@MUPPET.dnet.ge.com writes:
>anymore since amiga-relay went away.  I was looking through the Sept. '92 
>issue of Amiga World and I saw an ad for the new A3000T.  I didn't

Amazing as it may be, this ad also appeared in the latest BYTE.
I may have missed something, but this is the first Amiga ad I
have ever seen in BYTE.  

When C= Advertising does something right, or something at all as
the case may be, maybe we should flood their office with mail
expressing support.  Maybe it would help sustain a good advertising
campaign.   Then again, it might not...

-john


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jyork@iastate.edu (Justin York)
Subject: My AMIGA is now CYAN ONLY!!!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:44:35 GMT


Can anyone out there tell me what has happened to my Amiga? I moved it up
to college (no more bumps than normal...) and when I  hooked it up, the 
monitor displays only shades of cyan! I have tried re-setting the monitor
controls, and have tried different cables, so my conclusion is that it it

A) The 1084S telling me it will soon be leaving me :(

or

B) The Denise chip telling me it is time to upgrade :)

Does anyone (COMMODORE???) have any idea what is happening to her?
I would really rather replace the Denise chip than the monitor, because
I have had one Commodore monitor die on me already! I was getting ready 
to upgrade her soon, but now I might have to buy another (brand) of
computer. (I really like the fruit, but would rather not have to buy
one of their computers...) 

SO, if this sounds familiar, please tell me what you did to solve it...

					Thanks,
					Justin York
					jyork@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Printer problem - HELP!
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Printer
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:53:51 EDT

My friend has a wierd problem with his printer hooked to his 2000.
When he came back from a week's vacation he found that he can't send
anything to the printer and always gets a "Printer Problem" system
message - UNLESS he boots a printing program from a floppy, in which
case the printer works OK. Any attempt to print from a hard drive
boot, regardless of the printing means, fails. He's re-installed his
entire WB2.0 Workbench on his drive without results. His PRT: device
is listed as mounted and the printer is obviously working since
there's nor problem when booting from a floppy. There are no other
obvious problems with the system. There was one other anomoly that
went away: the first time he booted the machine after his vacation he
got the 2.0 "Insert Disk" screen which indicated that the SCSI
controller wasn't working for some reason, but after another reboot
the drive has worked fine. The controller is a GVP Series I with the
latest ROM update. The printer is a Star 9-pin running the EpsonX
driver.

If anyone has a clue as to what the problem might be PLEASE send email
to me at music@moravian.edu (ASAP). Thanks in advance!

Steve Heller
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From: chaiklin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Chaiklin)
Subject: Driver for Panasonic Kx-P1191 wanted
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:25:41 GMT

Greetings Amigatoids....  It has been a few years since I have
worked with an Amiga, but now I am trying to help my neighbor get
an Amiga 500 running with a Panasonic KX-P1191 printer.  This printer
is not listed in the collection of printer drivers...but then this 
machine is about 3 years old so maybe there are some new drivers available?
But how do I find out?  (Write to the net of course).
I also have the manual for the printer and could feed the needed codes
to a program if it is possible to roll one's own driver.  Is that
possible?  That might be ideal because the idea is also to
use some international character sets.  Thanks for insights.
Cheers,
  Seth

chaiklin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu




Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Vivid 24 graphics card
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:21:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.223052.22429@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dkennedy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don Kennedy) writes:

>I have just talked to Digital Micronics about the literature I picked up  
>at the Tulsa Amiga Users Group meeting over the weekend...

Have DMI indicated anything yet in terms of pricing and availability?
                                                                          
>The General Manager also spoke of another KILLER product - a hardware     
>compressor based on JPEG that will compress RGB images at a 30:1 ratio and
>play them back off the hard drive in REAL TIME. This one could be really  
>interesting...                                                            

Ouch! Now that would be nice.

Mark

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From: cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard-Disk info wanted!
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:23:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: unix7.713726597.7224.0
Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

In message <cvmalone.713715201@unix2.tcd.ie>, 
 cvmalone@unix2.tcd.ie (Colm Malone) writes:
>I am an addicted Amiga user here in Ireland. The Amiga I have is the A500 and
>was kindly lent to me by a friend of mine who has gone away for the summer.
>However, as my friend will be coming back soon and will be wanting his
>Amiga back - the only way I can see myself not suffering from severe
>withdrawal syptoms is to buy my own Amiga!
>
>I want to be able to program on my Amiga-to-be and the only way I can see
>myself doing this efficiently is with a hard-disk. What I want to know is, is
>the Amiga 500 and the A590 20MB hard-disk a good combination or could I do
>better? My mother is going over to the US next week - so I would like to take
>advantage of the cheaper hardware prices that the US has.
>
>I can get an Amiga 500 quite reasonable second-hand here in Ireland so I 
>would like to know what the US prices are for hard-disks (and also maybe an
>add-on-driver) - hopefully not more than $350 (approx 200 Irish pounds).
>I know very little as regards the multitude of hardware available for the
>Amiga and I am just wondering would I be holding myself with an A500 with
>respect to hard-disks, or should I think of a more powerful Amiga - again
>money is the only thing holding me back!
>
>I would very much appreciate any advise anyone can give - Thanks,
>Colm.

If 20 meg is enough, you should consider the Novia 20i internal IDE drive 
from ICD.  It may not be as fast as the A590, but then it wouldn't stick 
out and fill up your desk.  

This drive is reviewed in the June '92 Amiga World (US).  Do you guys get 
AW over there?

Installation not too hard if you're not afraid to pull the 68000.
 
It's too new a product for there to be much info about reliability.

Cheap mail order price is about US$240.
From: blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Supra Fax Modem Questions
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:39:45 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Aug12.085838.14413@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>,
tkt1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: 
> In article <1992Aug12.072142.3787@uwm.edu>,
> rlippert@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ryan Jon Lippert) writes: 
>> Hello fellow Amigans!
>> Just a few questions for ya. Does ANYONE like there Supra fax 14.4's????
>> Seems like ALOT of people are having problems with them. Whats the deal?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mine works great.  I haven't had any problems at all.  
> 
> 
> 
> -Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
I second that notion. The SupraFAX has caused me no problems hooking up
to a USR DUal Standard. It is, however, important to make sure one has a serial
cable that supports CTS/RTS hardware handshaking. The only way I know how to
tell, though not very scientific, is that they're big&thick, while cables
without the CTS/RTS are much thinner.  
Another thing; there's been a lot of talk about the temperature of the Supra.
Yes, it tends to get very hot, but since I've had no operation problems, I
doubt it's any big deal. I just have it sitting on top of my computer, no
special air flow or fan or anything. It's definitely worth its price (that is,
assuming you pay around $300 for it).

-Aaron
From: ghazi@wizofhoz.uucp (Ozzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about vxl-32 ram
Date: 20 Aug 1992 04:21:33 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Aug19.121341.15697@rdg.dec.com> bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink) writes:
>I own a vxl-030 40mhz no-copro. The question is : Is 2mb 32bit memory
>enough to use the system ? Does it leave some memory after the
>ks 2.04 is copied in memory ? What would be the gain to have 8mb 32bit ?

	The 2 meg option is enough to do most applications, plus you have
whatever 16 bit you prsently have. Using the fastrom option only takes 512k
or so of that, so you have 1.5 left.
	Having 8 megs of 32 bit would ideal, you could get rid of all the
16 bit if so desired and have enouh to run anything, but it also leaves you
the option of up to 17-18( dependng on Agnus) megs total system memory on a
500.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tschille@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Thorsten Schiller)
Subject: ARGH... GVP Series II blues
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:38:07 GMT

This eve is made a mistake that just leaves me shaking my head ;-)

Was playing around with various buffer sizes for my series II when I
ended up with 2 - 256K CHIP RAM buffers (not on purpose obviously ;-) Gotta
learn to tell the difference between F's and C's)... now, seeing as I only 
have 512K CHIP, I have a problem.

Anyways, I end up with only about 160K CHIP free which isn't enough to
allow me to run faaastprep and I don't seem to have any other utility
that lets me remove/edit/nuke the disk buffers. Reformating my harddrive
is also a frowned upon alternative.

Also, I tired booting the GVP Utils disk with the harddrive in "game" mode
but then the gvpscsi.device doesn't get loaded :( I used the likes or
ARTM to try to kill the various drive processes, but that also didn't
deallocate the memory.

Surely there's some way to rectify my error? I have rather little experience
when it comes to harddrives so I'm at a loss at how to get rid of those
buffers.

My setup, btw, is an A500 + GVP Series II (105 Meg drive w/ 4 megs ram)
and the 2.04 ROMs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :(

Thorsten Schiller
From: xnybpf01@serss0.fiu.edu (Brian P Feeny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Best hard disk(s)?
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:22:16 GMT
Organization: Florida International University, Miami


   I have an Apple DMP dot-matrix printer, and I recently attached it to my
Amiga 500.  I am having trouble getting it to work good with it however.  I
am looking for a printer driver to get the Apple DMP to work with the A500.
I am currently using the Imagewriter driver provided on the Extras disk
(1.3).  That and the Generic driver give me the same results......The
spacing in files doesnt work right (i.e. if there is a tab in the file like:
 
Hello    World
 
it will print
 
Hello World
 
   There are also a few other problems. If anyone can help me then I would
appreciate it.  Also, if tey know how my DIP switches should be configured
that would be great too.
 
                                             Brian Feeny
 
 
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From: Krzysztof@netxsys.guild.org (Krzysztof Adamski)
Subject: Re: Very strange DF0: problem
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:09:25 EDT
Organization: NetX Systems Inc.

From article <1992Aug13.203919.11525@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by griffin@frith.msu.edu (Dan Griffin):
> 
> Here's an odd problem: a few days ago my DF0: stopped reading, writing, and
> formatting Amiga disks.  However, it still reads and writes MS-DOS disks 
> using MessyDOS.  Obviously the drive has not died and the heads are still
> there, so does anyone have a clue as to what could be wrong?  (A2000/2630,
> WB2.04).  Thanks.
> -- 
> Dan Griffin
> griffin@egr.msu.edu
My amiga did the same thing yesterday (same setup) anybody have any ideas?

Krzysztof
From: dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Purple screen????
Summary: An explanation for a similar symptom.
Keywords: amiga purple rom 2.04 hardware
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:53:40 GMT
Organization: Environment Canada --- Atmostpheric Environment Service
In-reply-to: QCZUSEA@grove.iup.edu's message of 17 Aug 92 06:06:00 GMT

>>>>> On 17 Aug 92 06:06:00 GMT, QCZUSEA@grove.iup.edu said:


Erik> 	OK, this is starting to get REALLY old!  First my A500 starts
Erik> giving me a black screen on cold boots, and only would reset if
Erik> given a three finger salute, then it wouldn't work without a
Erik> drop test... (I know, but it worked for a while... ) now I have
Erik> had a really strange thing... I got a ?PURPLE? screen!

	The first time I got this, I was a little shocked.  It was just
after I installed my 2.04 rom in my accelerator.  The problem was
solved by cutting the jumper on the rom (my 500 hadn't required the
jumper).  This tidbit might come in handy to anyone placing the 2.04
rom in their computer, this purple seems to be some sort of reset
condition, when the computer can run the rom.

	The board in question is the VXL*32 ram expansion, so for note of
the netters, you cut the jumper on the rom to install.  Also of note,
is that this is not covered in any of the documentation.

	So to the origional poster, have you tried `re-seating' your
chips?  Chips often work loose after awhile, and this would explain
the `drop test' working --- you're jiggling your chips to work.  Try
firmly pressing down on all chips in the machine.

Erik> 	My system consists of:

Erik> 	A500 rev 6A
Erik> 	AdRam w/2 megs ram
Erik> 	AdICD Novia 20 meg internal HD
Erik> 	External FFD
Erik> 	Original power supply

Erik> 	Please help, I can't stand the idea of going through drop
Erik> tests every time that I want to use my amiga!

	Re-seating the chips is probably much healthier! ;)

Dave.

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