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From: jboone@gunarh.ECE.ORST.EDU (Jared V. Boone;;;;)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A500 Connectors, WHERE?
Keywords: a500, connectors, expansion
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:04:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis

Question of the day...

	Where does one find those 86-pin expansion bus connectors that
	are used in A500 expansion devices.  I want to build an expansion
	device but can't find such a part.

	The specs are:

		86 pins, .100" centers, female edge-card connector

	If anyone has information on where I could by some of these,
	please post, or respond to me at "jboone@gunarh.ece.orst.edu"


						Thanks,

						Jared Boone




P.S.  I'm building a Motorola DSP56001 project for some audio experi-
      menting, if anyone's interested in shooting the DSP "breeze" with
      me.
From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: b2000 crashing part 2
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:43:24 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Hardware: B2000 Rev 6.2 or 6.0 (PCB says 6, sticker on PCB says 6.2)
          Microbotics HardFrame/2000 SCSI HD controller, driver v1.5
          ICD RAM 8 MB RAM board, 2 MB populated
          1 MB Agnus, old Denise, 1.3 KS ROM, 2 floppies (internal), HD

Problem: Random crashing (GURUs, lockups, Software Failures etc).
         Most gurus are 00000004.xxxxxxxx, occasionally replace the 4
         with a 3.  Address of the error (xxxxxxxx) jumps around a lot.

In an attempt to isolate the problem, I started pulling expansion boards
and avoiding usage of the HD etc..  Really weird things started to
happen.

1 - When I pull the HD controller, it still crashes.
2 - When I pull the RAM board AND the HD controller, it SEEMS to work.
    I need to test this out more, but I don't know what to try.  Booting
    a C= workbench disk and doing lists of the disk over and over seems
    to work, whereas I can often not even get through the startup on the
    C= WB or my own WB when I have both mem card and HD controller in..
3 - When I pull the RAM board only, the HD won't boot!?!?  It starts to
    automount using the RDB, but then goes to floppy!  This is REALLY
    WEIRD.  If I try to access DH0: after booting from floppy, it says
    "can't examine device DH0:" or somesuch.  If I try to MOUNT DH0:
    after booting from floppy, it says "DH0: already mounted", and
    ASSIGN reports that DH0 is a device...

1 suggests it's NOT the HD controller.  2 suggests is not the
motherboard.  The RAM card seems like a likely candidate for the cause
of all these troubles, but when I pull it, why should my HD stop
working?  Argh...

I ran the ICD MemTest program on the RAM card.  No errors reported, I
let it run through Gap=0 and Gap=100 before quitting it.. (what should I
wait for to be assured of having tested the entire board?)

Meanwhile, with all the cards in, I loaded some games up and played
them; they worked!  No crashes.  As soon as I go to do some WB stuff (my
own WB on the HD, a friends customized WB, Commodore's WB), it starts
crashing with the above guru(s)..

Don't most games put the system hardware through the same kind of
exercise and use that the OS does?  Why should games work and not WB?
Arghh...

Are there any motherboard diagnostic programs that test out the entire
motherboard (all the custom chips fully, etc etc)?

This is really scaring me.  I don't look forward to a motherboard
replacement..
--
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From: sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:00:19 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Birmingham, England

I too have acces to a SCSI CD drive.
Can I just connect this and use the available software?
If not, WHY not?

thanks

--
Simon J Raybould    (sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk)            //              {o.o}
"Only joking ... Or am I ?" - Vic Reeves            \X/AMIGA           \-/
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:8708 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:7575
From: jh203s806@sycom.mi.org (Jim Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: C=64 files to AMIGA
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:13:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: sycom.jh203s806.290d
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

jas54553@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jerry A. Segler Jr.) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to copy files from the C=64 to the Amiga?
>>I know it's possible using a 0-modem cable..
>>But I want to disectly connect the 1541/1581 to the Amiga, and then simply co
>>the files..
>>How can I do this ???
>
>I believe (saw this but don't know if true) that a64v2 (64 emulator) on ab20
>says that if you register, the author sends you a little hardware dongle that
>allows you to connect c64 devices to the parallel port... It wouldn't be that
>hard to do actually and probably works fine.... Look into it and see what's
>up...
>
>-Jerry
>                                                                              
Yes, the A64 Emulator will transfer files, I have one.  I prefer the C64
Emulator II which came form ReadySOft I believe, and had a simpler hardware
gizmo that plugged into the parallel port of the amiga and had a 6 pin 1541
cable out the other side.  It works fine, there is a dedicated program called
Transfer that manages the device, gives a menu driven file transfer that even
does the necessary PET to Ascii conversion.
 
Another thing that Transfer will do is read a 1581 disk directly in the Amiga
3 1/2 inch drive.

-- C-UseNet V0.55c
 Jim Harvey | "After Armageddon, there will be only three things left: 
   WB8NBS   |  Cockroaches feeding on the radioactive remains, Kudzu vines
Amiga Person|  slowly covering the ashes and somewhere an IBM PC saying;
 jh203s806@ |    Abort, Retry, Ignore..
sycom.mi.org|    Abort, Retry, Ignore....   "
From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1 handed keyboard/mouse usable on Amiga
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:52:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Apr14.185231.6380


	That one handed keyboard sounds interesting. . .  If the company that
makes it is big enough, and broad minded enough, they might release a version
of it specifically for the Amiga.
	Other than that, the only way that it should work is with an Amiga 2000
with a bridgeboard and one of those keyboard adapters and the keyboard.  Of
course, that won't even work if they built the one-handed keyboard around the
non-standard IBM keyboard port (whatever that is.)
	I imagine that even if it works on an IBM, it still has to have some
sort of support software that translates what the one-handed keyboard sends as
input into something that the computer can understand.
	So then, the only challenge would be to convert that support software
into Amiga format.
	These are the ideas I have.

			:-)Kyle
From: mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Toaster on a 3000????
Date: 12 Apr 92 07:41:27 GMT
Organization: AMiSYS Consulting

In article <3729@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ee23042f@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
>
>  Does anyone have a Video Toaster working on a 3000?  I've heard that
>  the board needs to be hacked off to make it fit, is this true?

A good friend of mine just installed a Toaster into his 3000 a couple of weeks
ago.  He did not make any modifications to the Toaster itself, but he did have
to make a few modifications to the rear of the 3000's case, in order to
accomodate the topmost connector on the back of the Toaster.  He did a real
nice job, and everything works great.

While my friend has had no problems with this setup, he has heard from several
others who have experienced power supply problems.  My friend's system also
has a FireCracker and two hard drives installed.  One of the people he talked
to has a FireCracker, 2 HDs, and an '040 board (as well as a Toaster), and his
system won't boot unless he removes any one of those peripherals.

--
    ... Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dtiberio@csws4.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re:  Death of Pirating
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:51:51 GMT

In article <70224@ut-emx.uucp> mohawk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mohawk Dave) writes:
>
>If a "gail" chip will let the drives write to write-protected disks, then
>I'm guessing virus writers are REAL happy about that.  If a disk is write
>protected, it should be mechanically impossible to write to it.  There's 
>a good reason for write-protecting disks you know.
>


	Will someone please answer this only if you REALLY know the
answer? Is it possible to write to a protected disk from the Amiga
operating system? I know it is possible on the c64 becuase I have done
it. 



-- 
      //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3662  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
     //  Not the llama! Come here Earl; I want to tell you something...
   \X/  Liverpool, New York	flames to suggestions@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:43:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <3118@cs.rit.edu> dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg) writes:
>
>	I was wondering what makes Seagate drives so terrible??
>	I've been using a 296N (80 Meg) for 5 years now without a problem.
>	I am not trying to "have an attitude" I am just curious..
>
>						Dave


	About 2 yrs ago, there was a rash of complaints about Seagate
	drives. The ST157N and the......forget the other model, received
	the most complaints. The major complaint was about stiction, 
	a phenomena of the heads actually sticking to the platter because of
	lubricant build up. The cure was to physically attempt to 
	spin the disk to "un-stick" it. 

	Since that time, the complaints have virtually disappeared.
	I have had a Seagate 157N since prior to the rash of complaints,
	and never had any problems with it.
From: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (The Repo Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DONT Do GRAPEVINE (was Re: Amiga Mail Order Places)
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:48:06 GMT
Reply-To: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (The Repo Man)
Organization: Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, NY

<crap about Grapvine Group deleted for brevity>

>>First, I ordered a 16mHz 68000 from them.  It didn't ship for the longest time.
>>I called to ask about it and was told THE PART DOESN'T EXIST.  If any of you are
>>Steven Kuck

>In fact, Motorolla does not and never did make a 16 Mhz 68000 DIP chip.  
If Grapevine didn't know that when you wanted an MC68000P16, you meant
an MC68HC000P14, they certainly can't be faulted. 
>  -- Nathan Dohm

In actuality, a 16mhz 68000 does indeed seem to exist. I happen to be holding
in my hand a MC68000P12F, rated at 16mhz. I believe that this is a 
68000 chip that was born as a 12.5mhz part, but speced out to 16mhz. Does
this make sense to anyone? Does to me. Hmmmm. :-)


==Brett

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From: ronald@ecl014.UUCP (Ronald van Eijck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Death of Pirating
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:03:41 GMT
Organization: R&R Software

In article <1992Apr9.030300.22485@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bfrandse@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Frandsen) writes:

>>The first time you use a new Amiga you have to enter a personal code, wich then
>>gets burnt into the Gail chip. Then each time you use new commercial software,
>>this code is transfered to the disk (even if it's write-protected).
>
>>Each time you use the disk after that, it compares the two codes, and if they
>>don't match, the computer will be permanently blocked, and only CBM service
>>people, will be able to reset it, and they are told to notify the police
>>immediately, if an blocked amiga arrives.
>
>>CBM have been installing the Gail-chip in all amigas since the first of April.
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Doesn't anybody read a message before they reply ??

C'ya,

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  |  Ronald van Eijck                                         R&R Software  |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kmchan@beach.csulb.edu (Kwan M. Chan)
Subject: Problems in Interlace
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:04:59 GMT

Anyone else experience this or know why this happens?  When I use the
interlace screen (under PPage3.0 or Final Copy 1.3.2), occasionally the
screen will get garbled.  Images from one portion of the screen will
suddenly be duplicated and overlayed over other portions.  FOr example,
when I access the menus, sometimes the image of the menus will not leave
when I'm done.  Usually, forcing the screen to refresh will fix this problem.
Another example will be the image of the icons on the left-hand side of PPage
will appear on other parts of the screen.

I'm using an Amiga2000, GVP3001, 2 meg Fast, 2 meg Chip (MegAChip 2000).

Pls respond by email to this account.  Thanks.

kmc.


Also, something interesting occurred last night.  I was using the 
computer and all of a sudden, the video signal disappeared.  I know
it isn't a problem w/ the monitor because I switched monitors and
nothing showed up.  Rebooting seemed to return everything to normal.
Any ideas why this happens?

I'm using a 1084 monitor.
From: dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: SCSI Switch
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:47:50 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY


	I have an Archive Viper 2150S mounted in the 5.25" bay of my
Amiga 2000. I want to share this tape drive with my IBM 386 located
about 10 ft away. The Archive is powered by the amiga Power supply
(It seems to work fine, I have 2 Internal floppies A Hardframe SCSI
Card, and a Supra Ram w/2 Megs...(HD is a Maxtor 213  - about 10 Watts)
) - (It won't overload the PS will it???)

so the Amiga must be on when I use the tape drive for IBM backups.
I built a 15ft SCSI cable (I know it is right at the edge of the
standard! - it works fine) now I would like an A/B data switch to switch
between busses...
	
	Since I haven't heard of a 50 pin header type A/B Switch, I
could:

	1) Convert the ends of each bus (Amiga, IBM, and Tape Drive to
	   25 pin type and use a regular 25 pin A/B switch (But I
	   haven't seen any such cables...(header type to 25 pin) ... anyone
           have the correct pinouts??

	2) Boot the Amiga with the SCSI autoboot option off (So it
	   prompts for a workbench disk) then hook the IBM SCSI and AMIGA SCSI
 	   bus together, and access the tape drive....



		Any comments and or help would be appreciated...


						Dave
					dsg6397@ultb.rit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: monty@sagpd1 ()
Subject: Re: Atari Falcon (wasn't: Amiga Falcon)
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:22:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.230748.1514@cccan.uucp> entity@cccan.uucp (Cybernetworx) writes:
>
>Actually, the original poster is correct.  True that Amiga Corp went to Atari
>first with the Lorraine.  Everything was kosher and about to be settled but
>Commodore jumped in at the last moment and stole the amiga from under Atari's
>noses.  If you recall there was a court battle about this where atari
>contested the legality of Commodore's purchasing the Lorraine.  Anyhow,

	I wouldn't say jumped in as much as asked to bail them out. Atari
	had loaned Amiga Inc. operating capital and CBM paid off the dept.
	The court case was about Atari's contention that they had bought part
	of Amiga by loaning this capital. Atari's attempt to take over Amiga
	Inc. is what forced them to seek other sources.

>*AFTER* this Tramiel moved to Atari and apparently took quite a few engineers
>with him too.  The Atari ST was developed as a direct competition to the
>Amiga.  Notice how the ST is a lot like commodores earlier machine (c64) while
>the amiga has certain things (like the way it handles sprites) that are
>similar to the old atari 800's.  Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think
>this might be because of the switchover of a lot of staff.  Anyone know for
>sure?  I know the Lorraine was originally intended as a game machine and

	This is also un-true, The orginal Amiga inc. product was leaked to the
    industry as a game machine, but was intended from the start to be a full
    computer. The game machine disguise was to hide it from the competition.
    It was shown only in closed sessions to select people to further gain
    a jump on competition. This was told to us by (if memory serves ) R.J.
    Micheal at a users group meeting. If it was not R.J. I apologize. I always
    have trouble with putting names with bodies.

>Commodore had to do quite a bit as far as OS is concerned to make it not just
>a game machine.

	Commodore is the one who trashed the operating ssytem by using that
	BPTR crap from what I believe was an English outfit. Commodore is
	also why there was no (practical) expansion on the machine. They 
	felt it was to costly to produce that way so opted for what we
	got in the A1000.

>                BTW, anyone have the issue and volume number of the Compute
>Magazine Editorial where the Amiga Lorraine was first mentioned?  I remember
>reading it, but have no idea anymore what issue it was!  If you know, please
>let me know!!
> 

Monty L. Saine
From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Important notice to RCS Fusion40 owners
Summary: RCS (forwarded) message to Fusion40 owners
Keywords: Fusion40, RCS
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:40:51 GMT
Organization: Altitude, St-Lambert QC  CANADA


Message#1 is forwarded message direct from RCS to ALL present owners
of their Fusion40 board.

--------------------start of forwarded message#1------------------

Anyone with a Fusion40 who's socket U37 contains a lattice:
"GAL22V10-15LP" and is experiencing *any* problems at boot, random
crashes and very unstable operation with *6.2* motherboards, please
notify RCS immediately at:

Voice# 514-871-4924
Fax#   514-871-4926

This problem has been solved. The offending part needs to be changed.
RCS will ship the new part immediately!

Note that this message concerns all Fusion40 users with 6.2 motherboards
*everywhere*.

Thankyou for your patience.

-RCS Management.

--------------------------------end of forwarded message----------

-stephen
-- 
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From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory checker program.
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:59:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.#81j0al.damiel
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>vsanchez@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Victor Sanchez) writes:
>>I am having problem with my CHIP memory in my old A1000. Can somebody
>>recomend a memory tester program that will help me locate what area and
>>which chip is causing problems?

The Amiga self-tests CHIP ram upon bootup. If there is a hardware 
problem with the CHIP ram, you will get a green screen during the
reboot sequence.

however, if your problem is intermittent, a memory tester would
be efficacious.

>On a similar note, I once had a small problem with my fast RAM.  I had
>a RAD: disk mounted, and I extracted an archived file to this disk.  I
>received a read/write error!  I have never had any further troubles with
>my RAM, but still the event troubles me.  I realize that the archive
>may have been corrupt; I think I checked this, though.

>Anyway, I would like to get a program which checks all of memory (the way
>Intel machines do when they boot up).  Thanks.

the public domain program _ramtest_ will test memory in any range
you specify. it can be put in the startup-sequence to automatically
test all of memory upon reboot. it's an old program, probably available
on GEnie.

If either of you are unable to find it, i'll uuencode it and mail it
to you.


-- 
paul theodoropoulos                                         damiel@netcom.COM
From: aali@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (ALI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: VXL030 and wb2.0
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:19:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London


I got my VXL030 back from repair today (over a month and half of waiting). 
However, when I try and use it in WB2.0 mode, the screen goes red and 
everything locks up. I can`t CNTRL-A-A reset the thing either. 
I have a ROM switcher, so I can revert back to WB1.3. The VXL seems to work 
fine in this mode.
	When I spoke to a chap at the repair place a few weeks back, he said that he 
was waiting for new boards from the US which were comaptible with WB2.0. 
Apperently the older ones weren`t.
	So have I been given a dud board again, or is the compatibility still not 
sorted out?

Al.

ps. Any news on when the 32bit RAM reaches our shores?
From: brianh@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Brian Heyboer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Death of Pirating
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:48:10 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/20 - Mercury Opus NEC360, St Petersburg FL

In an article dated 04-14-92, DAVID TIBERIO writes:

DT>         Will someone please answer this only if you REALLY know the
DT> answer? Is it possible to write to a protected disk from the Amiga
DT> operating system? I know it is possible on the c64 becuase I have done
DT> it.

I can't say this is true with EVERY brand, but it is certainly supposed
to be the case that you cannot write to a write-protected disk.  My
Panasonic manuals specifically state that upon seeing a write-protect,
the drive inhibits writing PLUS informs the interface of the
write-protected state.

A friend of mine had a blown CIA chip (write protect sense was shot) and
if we inserted a write-protected disk, the computer tried but failed to
write to it.  This was with a Chinon drive, as I recall.
___
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