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From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO)
Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630
Reply-To: ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO)
Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:19:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.093331.5391@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
>- 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...
>- 
>
>No, that's the 'beauty' of the A3000...
Then how does the 2630 compare with the GVP accellerators?  I thought that 
their latest cards configured outside the autoconfig area...

>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
Subject: Re:  A600 PCMCIA & FASTMEM ??
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:29:47 GMT

johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
>heuvdp@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com (Paul Heu vd Netherlands) writes:
>>A large number of cards is available ranging from
>>RAM/ROM/FLASHROM to SCSI adaptors, LAN adaptors, modems
>>and so on..
>
>It's nice having access (theorectically) to all theses wonderful toys,
>but what about the software needed to drive them???
>
>The Amiga has a standard parallel port right?  Why aren't there all
>those people using those 'Xircom' (sp?) ethernet adapters that plug into
>the parallel port?  The answer is no software to drive them that's why!

Yes, that is the problem.  With the proper software the Amiga could use
VGA/SVGA boards, etc.  Such cards have been available forever (pratically),
yet the only way I know of to access them is with a Bridgeboard.

-- Gerald
From: paulg@weird.miami.fl.us (Paul Griswold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! Random Read/Write errors on HD
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:53:20 EDT
Organization: Weird BBS [Amiga] (305)553-3207 S. Miami, FL USA

I have had the same problem with my powersupply... When I boot up and workbench just gets running the powersupply seems to slow down...... I have:

A 2000 
PP&S 040 with 16 megs
A Grandslam with 2 megs and a 210 meg HD
A syquest 88meg
A DKB 2 meg Agnus
and 2 internal drives.
On the outside I have
SuperGen
DCTV
and a Supra 14.4..

Am I pulling too much off my powersupply????

Can some one E-mail me a reply....

Thanks!

Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Setting up ExaByte
Keywords: A3000 Exabyte Tape
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:44:54 GMT

In <14irjjINNbu2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> tra@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Asocks) writes:
>Exabyte drives need to be internally terminated since there is no way
>to supply the +5 volts needed for external terminators.

Huh ?

There is exactly one unit that supplies the +5V for the terminators.
In the case where there is a single initiator (the host computer)
the intiator is responsible for the +5V supply. I don't know what
the different host adapters think what is right but the A3000
and A2091 will feed +5V to the SCSI bus.

>/*  mount entry for Exabyte drive using BTN (on Fish Disks) */
>TAPE:   Handler   = L:btn-handler
>        Startup   = "suprascsi.device/UN-4/BS-1024/NB-8/BT-4"
>        Stacksize = 4000
>        Priority  = 5
>        GlobVec   = -1
>        Mount     = 1
>#

You get better throughput when you use 32k blocksize. I also use
it with 'variable' block sizes.

Regards,
-- 
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From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Need Help - 50 Hz flickers
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:13:46 GMT
Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <Metin_Savignano.02s8@turttwo.tynet.sub.org> Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano) writes:
> In a message dated Fri 24 Jul 92  7:00, Ludde@hemul.nada.kth.se (erik Lunde
> wrote:
> 
> >>it's PAL, so it's 50 Hz, so it flickers! What can I do?
> 
> >If it is 50Hz, it does not flicker.. But as everybody knows, it is 25Hz.
> :-)
> 
>  LL> It does definitely flicker at 50 Hz...
> 
> >50Hz doesn't flicker here, but you just might be an extraterrestial
> being..
> 
>  LL> Put a 72 Hz monitor right next to your 50 Hz monitor and compare
>  LL> them.
>  LL> I'm quite sure you will notice the difference, in favour of the 72 Hz
>  LL> monitor.
>  LL> I would not use a 50 Hz display for longer periods, unless I'm forced
>  LL> to.
>  LL> Luckily, I'm not.
> 
> That's oh so true! After I finally managed to switch to 60 Hz, I cannot
> understand how I ever could stand to work with 50 Hz for longer than 5
> minutes!!

Hmmm...  I use a Memorex/Astron screen/antistatic filter here, so I don't
mind 50Hz or anything like it...  ;-))


> Metin

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From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! 1 MEG agnus update=blank screen
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:54:46 GMT
Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG

In a message dated Fri 24 Jul 92  7:01, Yurick@vaxb.llnl.gov wrote:

 Y> Hello all,
 Y>   Today I removed my 1/2 meg Agnus chip, replaced it with the 1 meg
 Y> chip
 Y> (8372A), changed J101 to short out the first and middle post (rather
 Y> than the
 Y> middle and 3rd post), and opened J500.  I put everything back
 Y> together, turned
 Y> on my machine...and saw a BLANK WHITE SCREEN!!??  

As far as I know, for A2000 rev 4.x, also J102 must be opened. At least
this was the case on my (PAL) A2000 (rev 4.4).

Hope it helps...


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From: Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk (A N Other)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Advice on buying a HD+RAM+Accelerator (UK)
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:54:45 GMT
Organization: Computing Maths (COMMA), UWCC, Wales, UK

I have a A2000 1Mb, with XT bridgeboard (+hardcard) running Workbench 2.

I'm going to buy a hard disk (with up to 2MEG RAM) & controller soon.

The two options I've seen so far are.. (prices in pounds)

a) Microbotics VXL30 25MHz EC, 52Meg GVP II + 2MB         #225+#335 = #560
b) GVP 25MHz 1MB RAM with SCSI, 52Meg drive               #540+#200 = #740

Option a) has no Math co-processor, but I just want a bit of day-to-day
speedup (I could get a co-processor later for about #80). I get a total
of 3Mb of RAM (16bit) instead of 2Mb (1Mb 16bit, 1Mb 32bit).

Is there any reason not to opt for a)  ? will the bridgeboard work ok ?
Have I missed something obvious ?

thanks 
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From: carll@concour.cs.concordia.ca (LEDUC carl s)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:11:10 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

In article <o_seiler.02j3@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> <mcgradyj.711254026@marsh>
writes:

> Keep in mind that there is a terrible psychological battle going out there
> between the atari falcon (which is still vaporware and that I bet won't be
> there before the new amiga models) and the new amigas. Commodore got burned
> once: they announced their first PC-clone with its price, and instantly atari
> announced the same kind of machine, whith of course a smaller price, put up
> hastily a demo machine that they showed regularaily on computer shows.

While I can agree that no business wants to get burned, fearing that
another companies product will outperform your best to offer may be
a sign...a sign that says "We don't need you, we don't want you".

If the falcon is that much better than Commodore A4000, it will sell...maybe.
If it's vapourware...Commodore has nothing to fear.
If Commodore makes the A4000 that truly performs and for the best (read least
expensive) viable profit margin then they shouldn't wait to release.

I've been falling behind in my Amiga upgrades.  I still suffer with WB1.3,
a 68020 and a 40Meg Hard Disk.  I'm dying for a new machine that I can use to
impress my IBM friends (now onto 486 33MHz, SVGA and 80+HDs...for about $2500
Canadian.  To Commodore, all I can say is, if I have to wait much longer...I
won't!

> Apparently they are trying to do the same thing with the falcon. If you look
> closely the specs for it vary and try to match what commodore should came out
> as the lower end of its new machines... that's why commodore hides it so well

Funny.  I'm the one feeling burned.

Be Seein' You

(The Prisoner)

Carl.   carll@concour.cs.concordia.ca
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From: edge@well.sf.ca.us (Christopher L. Seguine)
Subject: Help w/ Maxstore 200HD in A3000!
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:47:20 GMT



Ok I picked up a maxstore LXT200S 200 meg HD as a second drive
BUT I just cant get it to work with my Quantum 240..Why? Ok
This is an Amiga 3000....My main (boot drive) is a Quantum 240, and
I also have an Insite Optical. Wehn I put the Quantum 240 in there,
when HDToolBox goes to check the scsi id of the maxstore it just
locks up!!! Whats the deal?  Its not the drive, If I put the Maxstore
in by its self in the 3000 or in a 2000 with a 2091 it works fine...
Its not the cable or power or anything...If I plug a Quantum 52
in place of the maxstore it works fine...Is there some kind of weird
incompatability at work here? Any help appreciated!
Please email edge@well.sf.ca.us
Thanx!
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From: orre@thalamus.sans.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Subject: Re: About to add a SyQuest....
Reply-To: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
	<ORRE.92Jul23022810@thalamus.sans.kth.se> <doctor.018o@k9.UUCP>
	<ORRE.92Jul23150221@thalamus.sans.kth.se>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:12:20 GMT

In article <ORRE.92Jul23150221@thalamus.sans.kth.se> 
orre@thalamus.sans.kth.se (Roland Orre) (I) wrote:

>   For maximum utilization of this logical address space you want
>   tracks * cylinders * sectors/track to be as close to the available
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   number of blocks as possible. ...

Of course I intended to say:
    heads * cylinders * sectors/track to be as close to the available ...
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From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: Re: POWERGLOVE
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Keywords: AmigaHires
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution:  na
Date: 28 JUL 92 08:53:39    

In article <1992Jul22.153628.1233@ccad.uiowa.edu>, rromano@ccad.uiowa.edu (Richard A Romano) writes...
> 
>What are the best present sources for the Mattel Powerglove.  I heard
>you can get one for about $30- from surplus stores.
> 
>Can anyone give me a name and/or number.

I found them on clearance for $18.00 from the local WalMart dept store.

Jim Graham 

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From: set@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Toaster Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum HD what to set the jumpers to ?? or quantum phone #?
Date: 30 Jul 1992 17:49:19 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I just bought another HD from my 2000 but it didnt come with any docs..
its a quantum 105 HD.. 
Either can someone tell me how to set the jumpers for it.. and also end
scsi termination..
or give me the phone # to quantum.//??


Steve T.
From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:54:52 GMT
Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG

In a message dated Sat 25 Jul 92 14:04, Prall968@armstrong.edu wrote:

 P>  I am a bit poor here and donb't have the scads of money lots of
 P> others do
 P> NOR care to hack my poor machine to oblivion JUST to add 2.0 ROMS
 P> and why should I when 1.3 works JUUUUUST fine for me.

There's a lot more you can do with 2.0, I would guess you didn't ever tried
to check this out?

 P> So then why is all this stuff now out for 2.0.. Whatever happened to
 P> downward
 P> compatibility?

Downward compatibilty! There is no downward compatibility and what is more:
there is no requirement for it! It's ok to have upward compatibility, so
you don't need to throw away your old programs. But if you insisted in
downward compatibility, you'd still use a C64 today - or a PET 2001!

In a few words: you cannot have downward compatibility and expect technical
upgrades at the same time. Just take a look at what MS-DOS worked out to
become under these circumstances!

The other thing is that 2.0 offers a lot of handy routines that 1.3 doesn't
have. - I find it understandable that programmers don't want to program
that same old stuff over and over, if it's already contained in 2.0's OS!
And 2.0 also offers possibilities that 1.3 doesn't have.

So, c'mon! Don't try to stop progress (which never works, anyway :-)! Go
and get 2.0, it's well worth its money! It's the best soft I ever bought
for that amount! :-)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cc069@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Daniel Sternklar)
Subject: 1902 schematics
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:21:21 GMT


HEllo anyone have or know where to find 1902 monitor schematics?
thx! ds
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: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:15:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.173346.27281@ninja.zso.dec.com>, Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com> writes...
>In article <21JUL199216040569@uhphys.phys.uh.edu> stich@uhphys.phys.uh.edu (CHRISTIAN STICH) writes:
>>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.
> 
>What 8368?
> 
>>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.
> 
>How can you draw a conclusion like that?  All you can possibly tell from
>the existing chip numbers is that they started numbering the fat Agnuses
>at 8370 and went up from there.  Anything beyond that is wild
>speculation.
> 
>>When I tried to order one through the local dealership, they couldn't
>>find an order number in Commodore's parts catalog, though.
> 
>No surprise, the chip doesn't exist!  (What some people will do for
>entertainment?!?) 
> 
>>				Christian    
> 
>-hans
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What a kind reply!  Maybe you can tell me what type of chip it is and why
it is listed in the Hardware manual (3rd edition, I lost the 3rd in the 
first posting). I did not say anywhere that it existed, I only stated that
it, 8368 HR (similar to HR-fat ???), is printed in the manual. Please read it
yourself. Do you think that this kind of message is appropriate, especially
 "(What some people will do for entertainment?!?)" ?
					Christian E. Stich

UofH, Physics, Mathematics + Computer Science

By the way, I would not need one of those chips since my 2 A1000 are barely 
used at all, and the 2000 as well as the 2500/30 are both equipped with ECS
Agni (Agnus got a Latin ending so plural would be Agni) and ECS Denises.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:39:36 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Jul30.181900.24742@hfsi.uucp> by ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO):
> In article <1992Jul30.093331.5391@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
> >aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
> >- In article <63021@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:

> >- >expansion room. With a 4MB 2630 and the Bridgeboard, you'll only be
> >- >able to add 2MB of 16-bit RAM.

> >- 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

> Then how does the 2630 compare with the GVP accellerators?  I thought that 
> their latest cards configured outside the autoconfig area...

    GVP's do (or can). No one has claimed here yet that A2630s can.

> John G. Ata - Technical Consultant | Internet:     hfsi!ata@UUNET.UU.NET
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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000 memory - static column or paged?
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:58:55 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

I currently have 2MB of Fast RAM (256K x 4 chips)in my A3000.  Without opening
up my system, is there a way to tell if it's page or static column?  Surely the
operating system knows - how do I get it to tell me?

Thanks,
	.../Ed
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: How do I replace my AMiga drive with an IBM 1?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 22:09:22 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <13139@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <92190.212152LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
  <1992Jul24.110443.9995@cs.uow.edu.au>

>OK. The HD Floppy thread refuses to die...
>
>About six months ago my friend bought a second internal floppy for his A3000
>through the local dealer - cost about A$160. When I heard about the new
>HD floppy drives we checked his out and found that it did indeed support HD
>disks.  Now with advent of Amax 2.5 with support for Mac HD disks I decided
>that I would have to get one of these drives.  I got the part number of my
>friends disk drive and contacted the local dealer and asked them to get a
>price.  They came back and said that Commodore said something like
>"We know what you are up to asking for a FD-357 and you can't have one"
>although two days later someone else from the dealer called to say that
>Commodore claimed that an FD-357 was a PC disk drive and $190.

First off, my drives HD drives are FD-357A, not FD-357.

>
>After all this I decided that the Commodore drive can't be too different from
>the normal PC drive so I bought a 1.44MB 3.5 from a local pc parts dealer
>(A$76!!).  I had to solder in an extra wire to get the disk change line to
>work properly. I have not been able to get the Amiga to recognise the drive
>as a HD drive.  I see from the include files that trackdisk.device is capable
>of recognising a "3.5 inch 150 RPM" drive.  Does anyone know what signals the
>Commodore drive sets to indicate a HD drive/disk or should I just go back to
>trying to get a drive from Commodore?
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul
>
>--
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>u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au |  floppy disks and run WinWord at the same time!"
>                       |   Reviewer in Computerworld.
>                       |            Has he heard of the Amiga?
>

I believe the PC HD drives go twice the RPM that the Amiga can use.
That's the special thing about these Amiga HD drives, the go half the speed
of the PC HD drives.

-Joel
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