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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 21:10:36 EDT
From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: I Need Hard-Drive Drivers...

In article <32562@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, icicle@cats.ucsc.edu (Andrew Christian
Haas) says:
>
> I have a file I got somewhere that tells how to hook up old IBM-style hard
>drive interfaces to the Amiga. What I need, however, is driver software that
>will work with these. The file gives commercial sources in Germany, but I'd
               May be ALF2 software ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>rather use something public domain or shareware (or something from U.S.)

ALF2 software claims it support several commerical/PD type of HD
interface.  They are market by Per'spect people in Montreal, Canada.
That's the closest to U.S. I can think of.  For a few more bucks they'll
even sell you the interface to your Amiga.  :)  If you have some odd
interface at weird addresses, let me know.  I managed to get ALF2 software with
good old Palomax.  Personally I would suggest you to get yourself an
autoboot HD interface.  They aren't that much more expensive.

>If anyone can help with this, I'd appreciate it.
>                                                   icicle@cats.ucsc.edu

K. C. Lee
Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
P.S. I am not associated with Per'spect nor ALF2.  Just an old customer.
     I don't even remember their addresses.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Boot priorities of floppied under 2.04
From: sbiddle@aviate.cavebbs.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:50:06 +1200
Distribution: world
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <phil.702864999@adam.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
>I know I have seen it before somewhere, but can someone please list the boot
>priorites of DF0: -> DF3: under 2.04.
>
>Also, under 2.04 when I boot from powerup, my system does not see DF0:, and
>always asks me to insert it - if I think reboot, everything is fine.

Just on a related note, under 2.04 there is also a boot menu. When you reset
the machine  hold down both mouse buttons while doing so, and you will see
all available drives, and their boot priority.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer)
Subject: Re: BridgeBoard and 2.04
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:14:32 GMT

djz@acpub.duke.edu (DAVID ZAVELSON) writes:

>Has anyone else had trouble running a bridgeboard under 2.04.  I have
>the 8086 XT bridgeboard running in my Amiga 2500 (68020).  Whenever I
>try to boot the bridgeboard it says it cant find libraries!  It used to
>do this every once in a while under the old workbench, but under 2.04 it
>never will boot.  There are no Amiga dealers in the area, and I cant
>find a number for Commodore in the 2.04 manual.  If anyone can help me
>either with the problem with the bridgeboard or at least post a customer
>service number for Commodore, I would appreciate it.
>Thanks in advance.
>Dave.

I had the same problem. Look if you havyy also the Janus Library AND ITS .INFO
FILE (!!!!!) in the Expansion Directory!! That's what was missing by me. Now it
 works all fine!

Bye,
sammy
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From: David-L@cup.portal.com (David Steven Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CMI Multi-Port and RTS/CTS Handshaking
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:21:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: cup.57062
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Dan,

Thanks for the help.  I have to admit to being a bit hardware ignorant
where the Multi-Port is concerned.

I assume what you're saying is that the 8530/85230 device is used in
the Cmi MultiPort board.  Do you have a multi-port board?  Sounds
like you have more then one port add-on card.

Will your new drive have any effect on the Parallel port and SCSI
interface also on the card?

Steven Fordyce had mentioned to me awhile back that he thought someone
was working on a new driver for the card.  Is that you? Or was he talking
about something else.

Thanks ALOT.


P.S.  I'll be more then happy to send a few bucks your way in exchange for
an improved cmiser.device!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rodney Raym Morrison)
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:40:21 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.212739.11868@en.ecn.purdue.edu> esser@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Chris Esser) writes:
>In article <3118@cs.rit.edu> dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg) writes:
>
>All in all, I will NEVER purchase another Seagate Hard Drive again, and 
>recommend against anyone else doing such.
>
>-Chris

Ah, but some Seagate drives are among the best of the bestest! That is
because they acquired Imprimis which was CDC last year. So you hae
tocheck which "division" of Seagate made the drive.
   Thw Wren drives, plus some other new drives which use the 'Seagate'
numbering scheme are great drives because they were not designed by the
'old' Seagate, which only makes lower capacity drives. One good way to
tell is to look at the average seek time, The GOOD drives all have at
least as good as 16 ms, some are as low as 10 ms, and include caches
and lots of other bells (you can synchronize several drives together
to multiply your transfer rates, etc.).
From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
Subject: Re: Supra XP 500 vs GVP Series II
Keywords: hard drive, ram
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:17:01 GMT

cline@ee.ualberta.ca (Robert Cline) writes:
>clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu Ayala) writes:
>>  Finally, I'm interested in how important is the low power consumption
>>  of the Supra.  The guy on the phone claimed that it didn't need an
>>  extra power supply.  However I'm planning on getting one anyway.
>>  I'm concerned about GVP using too much power.  I don't want to
>>  drain too much power from my wall socket.  Right now, everything
>>  (Amiga, monitor, HP DeskJet 500, Supra Modem) is hooked to a power strip.
>>  Isn't something bad likely to happen if you have too many things
>>  drawing power from one socket?
>You don't need to worry about how much they drain off your house current-
>no computer should drain that much. You do need to worry about how much
>you drain off the computer's power supply. [...]

I, too, have a SupraDrive 500XP (40MB/2MB-RAM).  The drive runs off of
my A500's power supply as does my external floppy drive.  I have been
using this setup intensively for about 16 months now; I have had no
problems.  Lucky?

>Two additional comments: First, the major deal between these two drives is
>price & performance. The Supra is way cheaper to start out with, and you
>can buy the power supply if you need it later- that's why I bought it. The
>GVP is supposed to be way faster, comes with it's own supply, and uses
>the standard simms, so it's worth and costs more.

Not to mention that GVP Impact Series II drives have the expansion slot.
The 286 bridgeboard is already available for this slot; this may be a
big factor to consider.

>Second, since the GVP is DMA-driven, it delivers better performance on a
>stock 500, but can lead to problems if you want to accellerate your
>machine- typically 500 accellerators don't allow DMA into their ram, so
>the drive performance goes way down as the system compensates with buffering
>and I've heard of problems using AdSpeed with a DMA-based controller, as
>it's cache needs to be flushed before any DMA.

I did not know that the SupraDrives were not DMA controllers.  Is this the
case for all ROM versions?  (I have the Series II ROMs.)  Is a ROM upgrade
worth the trouble?
The VXL accelerator is supposed to allow DMA to its 32-bit RAM.  Of course,
this RAM is not available yet, but would this give huge performance
increases?

>All in all, I'd say if you're going to use the unacclerated 500, and can
>afford it, get the GVP. I liked the base price of the Supra, but would've
>bought the GVP if I could have afforded it right off the bat.
>Incidentally, on an accellerated 500 my Supra worked about 2-3% faster
>than normal.

What accelerator do you have?

Thanks for your time.

-- Gerald
From: Devin_Smith@telepro.UUCP (Devin Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: C=64 files to AMIGA
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:42:55 GMT
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Wed  8 Apr 92 19:41, Kintel@solan.unit.no (marius Kintel
wrote:

 KK> Does anyone know how to copy files from the C=64 to the Amiga?
 KK> I know it's possible using a 0-modem cable..
 KK> But I want to disectly connect the 1541/1581 to the Amiga, and then
 KK> simply copy
 KK> the files..

 KK> How can I do this ???

You could do this by registering a copy of A64, the Commodore 64 emulator
for Amiga computers.  I have a copy of A64, it's pretty cool.  If you
register it, you get a special cable that allows you to plug the 1541 into
your Amiga.  It apparently balks with GEOS, but I can't verify that, so
don't believe it until you actually see it.  You can assign DF0: or DH0: or
any other device (like RAM: or PIPE:) to be device 8 or 9 or 10 or 11
etc... it's nice to be able to take 64 programs, put them on an Amiga
diskette (I downloaded a few programs to try out), and load them in under 2
seconds! :)  Not quite that fast, but kills the old 64, that's for sure. 
Emulation isn't perfect, especially graphics and sound, but if you're using
it for other stuff (BASIC programs or something) you can put into a
high-speed mode and run the program at a higher speed, although doing so
doesn't allow you to access Amiga drives.  Oh, it also has port emulation,
where you can assign the Amiga's ports to be the 64's ports (so you could
use a modem program).

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From: kensaga@diku.dk (Kenneth Fribert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice needed for scanner
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:43:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET (Cem Turgay) writes:

>I want to buy a handy scanner for my A500.
>I never use before. I don't have more knowledge about scanners.
>Do you have any advice for me?

Well, most of the scanners are almost the same inside, what you should be very carefull about is the accompanyin software.
Does it support multiple scans, OCR, gray-scales, colour etc.
I have a Golden Image, and I am very glad for it, it does the job, and does it nice. So IMHO it's a good choice.

Regards
Kenneth Fribert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Subject: A3000->VGA
Originator: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:17:18 GMT

I recently purchased an A3000/16 and would like to hook up one of those
inexpensive (relatively) SVGA monitors to it rather than a $550+ monitor like
the C= 1950/1960.

I realize that these monitors do not produce a composite video output but I'm
not doing video work anyway so that's not an issue with me.

The only other shortcoming I have heard is that non-commodore monitors will not
offer true overscan but will leave a black boarder around the image.

Are these the only things lacking if I opt for a SVGA monitor? I also would like
to know if the Amiga 3000 connector is "standard" or if I will need a custom 
cable.  Finally, should I choose a non-interlaced monitor over an interlaced 
model despite the de-interlacing hardware on my A3000?

Thanks

mrosen
From: mce5921@bcstec.boeing.com (Martin Emde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A500/A2000 Floppy Drive Compatibility Question
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:15:21 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

Has anyone successfully installed a floppy drive from an Amiga 500
into an Amiga 2000 df1: drive slot?  If so I would like to know how
it was done.

Thanks,

Martin
From: cbjones@c00313-11pa.eos.ncsu.edu (CHARLES B JONES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1000 hardware mystery
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:58:21 GMT
Organization: NCSU Project Eos

Te 8 pin DIN plug us the TV modulator connector.  It outputs composite video 
and both audio channels.  The pin outputs are as follows:

  1  -  
  2  -  GND     (ground)
  3  -  Audio Left    (left channel)
  4  -  Comp video    (composite video out)
  5  -  GND     (ground)
  6  -  
  7  -  +12v     (+12 volts power supply, 60 mA)
  8  -  Audio Right    (right channel)

cbjones@eos.ncsu.edu
From: danb@gaff.physci.psu.edu (Dan Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone know current state of AEHD and 2.04?
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:26:42 GMT
Organization: Penn State University, Physical Sciences

In article <1992Apr14.184104.14955@cc.gatech.edu> kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman) writes:
>Hello Netters,
>	Does anyone know if a proper 2.04 driver exists for the
>Applied Engineering high density drive yet?  Yes, I know they aren't
>going to write one, I was hoping some Amiga programmer had done
>so by now.  Anybody?
>
>			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)

I've been writing my own version of trackdisk.device (more features, e.g.
verify, possibly faster, etc). If someone sends me a AE drive I might be
able to support it. (Assuming adaquate technical information is available).

-- Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gerke@IMD.Sterling.COM (Greg Gerke)
Subject: Extra serial ports for an A1000...
Summary: Need serial ports for an A1000 
Keywords: A1000 Serial Ports 
Organization: Sterling Software, IMD
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:45:35 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 0eb9c9bc595fda20d4f6255405cb7352

I'm looking to get more external serial ports for my trusty A1000. Does  
someone know/have a list of places that might carry such a beast?

Didn't the Puzzle Factory used to carry or distribute schematics for this?

Thanks in advance,
Greg

-- 
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Sterling Software IMD        INTERNET: gerke@IMD.Sterling.COM
1406 Ft. Crook Rd. South     Phone:    (402) 291-8300 
Bellevue, NE. 68005-2969     FAX:      (402) 291-4362
From: yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Amiga Mail Order Places
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Apr 92 16:49:43 GMT
Organization: Blue-Knight Productions

In article <johnv.008t@acix.DIALix.oz.au> johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
>    They have some strange ideas though.  Last few times I have ordered
>stuff using a VISA card, if I had received a new card since the last
>time I ordered from them, they wanted a copy of the front and back side
>of the card!  This has not caused any problems.  I just wonder what
>their motivation for this is?
>
>    Apart from that they seem to do a good job.  I bought ProWrite and
>Excellence!  off them last year, it was here in Oz in about 2 weeks.
	
	You want to hear something better.. How about this. I ordered one
time before from them and I did it via Check. This time I wanted to use my
credit card. They call me up one day around 9 am and I was sleeping. So I
answered their questions semi coherently and went back to sleep. In a few
days I call them and ask where is my order. They told me that they called
my house and that someone else answered the phone. Since it was not me
answering the phone they would not exept my visa card and that I had to
pay by check (certified no less). I know people have strange practices but
these are a little strange....  its OK their loss I turned around and
ordered with BFJ enterprises for better delivery and support anyway.
--

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives... now Maxtor drives !
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:53:19 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

In article <1992Apr16.023224.9919@v785.stanley.co.jp> janin@v785.stanley.co.jp () writes:

>My own LXT-100S is INCREDIBLY low on noise.
>In the docs, Maxtor says that LXT-100 noise is <25dB, that is VERY QUIET.
>In fact, the only noise I can hear is the autopark lock at power up/down...
>Cannot even suppose it spins or moves heads if I don't look at the LED light !
>You might have been very unlucky with yours...

	Yes, it was quiet (Compared to my Seagate Anyway!) I guess I was 
unluckey...although Maxtor was excellent at handling the situation...

>
>I have another couple of questions for you, since you used an LXT-100
>some time ago :
>
>	1> what SCSI controller is it mounted on ?
>	   I own a A2090A inside my A2000-B, but I had severe problems with
>	   resistor packs on the HD : I must remove them to make the drive boot !

	I have a Hardframe 2000 (rev 1.9 ROM) and when the LXT-100 was running
I had my Seagate as the boot drive (Unit=0) the LXT-100 as Unit 1 and 
my external Archive 2150S as Unit 2. Since the Archive was not always powered
on, I had terminators on the Maxtor also...everything worked fine. 
	I never used the Maxtor as the boot drive, but it always automounted
fine.	
	I did have boot problems when I had Terminators on my old Cipher 540
SCSI drive. (It was in the same place as the Archive).

>	2> did you find a small connector for the external LED ?
>	   what kind of ?

	I think I remember a connector, but I nere used it cause the hardframe
has a Led connector that works fine.

>
>>	Oh, the new drive they sent is the 213 SY (NOT LY)
>
>You just shipped the old drive and got that new 213Mb ? For free ???

	YUP!! - Beautiful isn't it!! I was really psyched when they said
	"We don't make the lxt-100 anymore, so Well send you a 213 SY."
	"What is a 213 SY?" I said. "A 213 MB SCSI drive - Really Awesome"
	The lady, who sounded really cute, actually said that!

>
>And what are "SY" and "LY" suffixes ?

	LY was my mistake, and I don't know what SY stands for since
I haven't recieved docs yet. (They are on the way) I would assume S
is for SCSI.
>
>Thanks !
>
>
>P-chan 

					Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: NEW DAK External CD-ROM. (Re: DAK $229 CD-ROM details)
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:24:53 GMT

sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <dac.02x0@dacami.UUCP>, dac@dacami.UUCP (David Culberson) writes:
>|>   Hey!  Just got a new DAK catalog in the mail.
>|>   Caddyless, EXTERNAL CD-ROM drive, conforms to the ISO specs, with IBM
>|> interface card, for, get this:  $199.  What gives?  Is it SCSI?  Is it any
>|> good?  This sounds like an _incredible_ deal.

>It is an incredible deal, but the interface is non-SCSI. It uses a permuted form of 
>the SCSI interface, but is sufficiently different such that Amigas and Macs can't 

Is this drive using the "SonyBus" interface? If so, it will never work
with the Amiga. Call DAK's tech info line and they can probably tell
you what interface it is. 

>use them (pretty stupid IMHO). For a mere $229, however you can get a Sony? 

No, it's an NEC, model CDR-80.

>internal SCSI CD-ROM drive (with Microsoft bookshelf). I have just purchased
>one for my 3000. Am placing the order for the CD-ROMFS tonight.

Be aware that CPR just posted a notice to BIX that there is likely to be
a severe shortage of the CDROM-FS for the next 2-3 weeks. CPR's stock
has been completely depleted because they underestimated the demand for
their product. So until they get new stock, what's on the shelves is all
there is. CPR said that the availability problem should be fixed within
three weeks.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland        580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne  BIX: blaine_g
DoD #46               My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.              FJ1200
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From: lad@remus.rutgers.edu (Kamlesh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: BAD supra drive controller
Keywords: supra drive
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:44:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


My systems consists of:

	A500, with 1.3 ROMS
	A501 expansion device
	1 external drive

My problem is:


I just bought a used Supra Drive SCSI with 2MB interface.  I have a adaptec
MFM-SCSI interface, and a MFM 20-meg hard drive.  I hooked everything
up properly, however when I turn my A500 on, I just get a blank
screen, with the power light on.  Nothing is blinking, the floppy
drives are not clicking.  The amiga will not boot from the floppy with
the Supra Drive interface hooked up.  The work bench picture will not
even appear on the screen.  Nothing happens,  Just a white blank
screen.  Even if the hard drive didnt work, I should be able to boot
off the floppy with the controller attached.

	When I remove the controller, the amiga works fine.


	Please help.

						Kamlesh Lad
						lad@remus.rutgers.edu
						Rutgers University
From: sworkman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michael Sean Workman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CMS Multi-serial card VS ASDG's dual port card
Keywords: multi dual serial modem usr
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:33:00 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I was wondering if anybody could tell me more about CBM's multi-serial card
and ASDG's dual serial card.  What I've gathered so far is that ASDG's is a
two port card (is that 2 total, or 2 additional) and CBM's gives you seven
more ports.  I know the CBM card can be had mail order for $299.  How much
is the ASDG card.  Can I still use the built in serial port with both of
these cards?  I'm going to run at least one VERY high speed line (16.8k)
and the other will most likely be 2400 (v.42bis).  Any suggestions/info
would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks.

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