HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hibrown@vidar.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: A2091 controller plus two scsi drives
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:37:22 GMT

I have an A2500/30 with an A2091 controller and two Quantum hard drives. One is
the original 40 meg and the second is a 105 meg which I added about a year ago.
Everything has been OK. My friend also has an AS2500/30 with the A2091 controller
and a 40 meg drive and wanted to add a Quantum 120 meg. He has been unable to do
this without problems. Does the 120 cause difficulties that anyone is aware of?
I would appreciate any e-mail responses.

Thanks,

Herb

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From: Jan_Gault@lppl.mi.org (Jan Gault)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Printers - Laser or InkJET
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:46:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: lppl.Jan_Gault.076w
Organization: Les's Place BBS


I have DCTV and I have been digitizing pictures. I have a 24 pin Star
NX-2420 that I'm using to get hardcopies but.. I'd like to improve the
picture quality plus improve on the PrintOUT time. Does anyone or has
anyone used InkJET or Laser printout to Iron onto T-Shirts? Any information
will be appreciated.

                                          --==<*>==-  Star Mare --==<*>==--

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From: francis@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Demierre Francis,85L2,Tel. x3503)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FDHD
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:23:04 GMT
Reply-To: francis@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG

In article 19618@public.sub.org, peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
>ree88132@zach.fit.edu (Keith Ledig /ADVISOR Kozaitis) writes:
>> 
>>Please tell me more about your HDfloppy drive on your 3000
>>I heard some 3000's were released with the 1.44 meg drives.
>                          ^^^^^^^^
>Wrong word, use "shipped". These HD drives are not yet officially
>released. In HD mode, they still are not reliable, in normal DD
>mode, they work reliably.
>
>>Can us 3000 owners hook up a 1.44 floppy and make it work???
>
>No, it's a very special sort of HD drives that slow down their 
>rotation speed to half in HD mode, and the stability of this
>rotation is also their problem.
>We hope to find drives that are stable enough.
>
>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk


Peter,

I have got (here in Switzerland) an Amiga 3000T since a week and I tested the High-density formatting.
As you say, it does not seem to be reliable. I never happen to format a whole disk. Each attempt I have done
miserably failed. I tried with several brands/qualities of diskettes and the format failed randomly (not always
at the same track/sector).

Basically,  HD mode  is unusable    ;-(

My question is:

  If C= finds a new reliable diskette drive and ships it with future amigas, will they replace my drive
  for free, ask some upgrade $ contribution, do nothing .... ?

  Can I now try to get a better drive under warranty ?

  Thanks for any thoughts .....

Francis

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From: aces@mcode.amdahl.com (Jeffrey D. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Weird Quantum Crash?
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:12:03 GMT
Reply-To: jds30@amail.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale Ca.

I've been having weird HD crashes for about 2
months.  When I write to the HD, the drive light
flickers, but not in the "usual" way.  I check
the directory and my new file is there and the
size is right.  I read the file and get garbage.
At that point, the "format" command refuses to
format the drive, complaining about an "error".
Sometimes, I'll also see AmigaDOS error 42.

Last night, the problem seems worse.  I could
be doing nothing at keyboard and no disk
access, and suddenly the screen will go dark
and I get a guru/alert message.  I don't remember
the number.  At least once, the screen turned
bright red for several seconds, and then went
dark.  Another symptom is a complete system hang
when I perform a massive recursive directory scan
(the drive light happens to be off when hang occurs).

Any ideas?  HT electronics is stumped and can't fix it.

Thanks very much.
From: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:50:49 GMT
Reply-To: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp ()
Organization: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. R&D

In article <3125@cs.rit.edu> dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg) writes:
>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:
>>I had backups, but since backing up an 85 Meg HD takes a considerable amount
>>of disks, they were a few weeks out of date.  Seagate drives are slow and
>								  ^^^^
>>noisy -- disconnect the power from yours, and you will be amazed how quiet 
> ^^^^^
>>the room suddenly is...  
>
>>-Chris
>
>	I am not sure how "slow" my seagate is/was (I have since moved it to
>my IBM cause I got a 200 mb Maxtor (replacement for a Bad 96M lxt-100) )
>
>						Dave

Just a question.
For curiosity.
What did your Maxtor LXT-100S suffer from ?
I have the same one, bought 1 year ago.

P-chan.
From: dohm@cat3.cs.wisc.edu (Nathan Dohm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga Token Ring Interface?
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:53:44 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

All right.  We're going to try this one more time. :)  Does anyone know of
a Token Ring interface card for the Amiga (3000)?  Please let me know who
sells one and how much (approximately) it costs.  If there aren't any around,
are there any in development, any plans, or even vague vaporwarish ideas?
And will it work with the Commodore TCP/IP client software?  Thanks much!
	-- Nathan Dohm
From: kensaga@diku.dk (Kenneth Fribert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The GoldenGate card
Keywords: serial bridgeboard I/O
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:34:04 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander) writes:

>I'm considering buying a GoldenGate card from David Salamon. Has

Good for you

>anybody got one, and can give me some opinions about it? I
>haven't heard anything bad about it, but on the other hand I
>haven't heard anything good either.

I`ve got it, assembled it and installed it, now all I need is my SupraFax
v32b internal (PC), and I`m ready t go.
The board itself is very proffesionally designed. Two-layer pcb, all
bits`n`pieces oriented the same way, and a perfect match for the amiga`s
guides for cards.
It supports both the AT and the XT slots. It needs chips of the LS, HCT and
F flavours, also a (for danes at least) quite exotic 74F521, which I was
lucky to find.
Included is drivers for serial and parralell, a status program for examining
what is mounted and a IOWedge to interface programs that doesn`t allow you
to change the name of the device.
The manual/assembly-instruction included is quite good, and even I was able
to assemble it without any hassle. Also included is specifications for the
IBM`s addresses for its IO-things.
Davide has been very supporting until now, sending the software over
uuencode, and sending the card even before it was supposed to be finished.
He has now only a few cards left, so if you want one, you should probably
hurry.
The price is $60 for the card, $10 for the autoconfig-PAL, and $10 for
shipping (to Denmark).
If you want to know more, send me a mail, maybe when I get my Supra I can
tell you how it is working.

Regards
Kenneth Fribert
From: linton@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Michael Linton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Okidata Ol-400 driver
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:12:23 GMT
Organization: The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri) writes:

> 
>    The Okidata OL400 emulates the Hewlett Packard LaserJet Series II laser
> printer.  Pull that printer driver into your devs:printers drawer and you're
> set.
>    

 
Well this isn't for me... It's for a freind.  But I think he is using that, 
and he still isn't getting proper print outs.  But still, if there is a 
specific driver for the Ol-400, I'm sure he would rather have that.  But 
thanks a lot for the help anyway.  TTYSS.
 

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linton@bbs.orion.bison.mb.ca (Michael Linton)
The Orion Unix System [A/UX 2.0.1], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: teece@sol.UVic.CA ()
Subject: Re: A1000 hardware mystery
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 02:15:37 GMT

In article <1=zjq0k.damiel@netcom.com> damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
>on the back of the machine, between the Composite video out and the
>23 pin RGB out, there was a medium sized round DIN connector, with
>a tv screen "icon" above it, with a blank screen area (the composite
>video out has three circles on the screen).
>
>i'm curious what type of output this is.

This is the "TV modulator input" to which you connect a modulator and switch 
box for using a TV's antenna posts for connecting the TV as a monitor.
From: sspst8@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Sanjay S Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Quantum Drives - Are they reliable?
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:56:30 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Quantums are quirky drives.. the old 40/80/105 and the new 52/105 series
are awfully slow [data transfer rate] , the 210 and 270 do transfer quite
a bit faster - keep that in mind.

Now - I doubt that the drive just quit, It may have the stuck head
problem that plagues the 40/80/105 line.  I used an 80Q for quite a few 
months when the head stuck and from then on I had to shake it occasionally
to get it to start up.  Apparantly from hearing at GVP this is a common
problem with those drives and there is a supposed ROM upgrade for the drives
that solves this problem.  And there are tons of drives with this problem
still out there.

Still , newer drives shouldnt have this problem.  I've used every model
Quantum SCSI drive in my machines - 40 on an A500, an 80 on the A2000,
and the 52Q & 210Q on my A3000 and the only problem I've had is with the
'stuck head'.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: DMI Floptical drive.
Keywords: 20MB floppy, floptical
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:21:11 GMT

walsh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John Lawrence Walsh) writes:
>In article <45674@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> riesermc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Rieser) writes:

>>I saw DMI has them for $645.
>>I saw BriWall has them for $545.

>SafeHarbor has these drives on special this month for $399.
>Internal version that is...  I too want one, but I don't 
>understand why I should have to buy it through DMI.  They
>don't make the drive.  A company called Insight manufactures
>them..  If someone could give me an address, I would like to
>call them direct.

Insite is indeed the manufacturer, but from what someone posted here a
year or so ago, they won't even talk to you unless you're going to buy a
few hundred drives at a time.

Don't forget the driver software. The drive has three modes, 720K,
1.44M and 20M, and from what I've heard, some software support is
required to switch modes.

>The disks cost only ~$10 each....  This
>is *much* better than a tape drive, or whatever the negative
>comment was..

How do you figure? $10/20M = $.50/meg for the Insite. Compare that to
$20/150M = $.13/meg for 150M tapes in DC6150 format.

At the current prices, I think the Insite compares poorly to both tape
drives (cheaper and larger mass storage) and removable hard drives (more
expensive, but far faster).
-- 
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DoD #46               My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.              FJ1200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: royle@frith.egr.msu.edu (Matthew Royle)
Subject: Interface.
Keywords:  Needed... etc.
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 20:32:53 GMT

Hi there.  A friend of mine is selling a hard drive, preferable to me, 
however I need an interface.  It is a scsi drive, and he uses it for
his amiga now.  He is, however, getting a larger hard drive.

 Thus, I need an interface, I have a drive.  Does anyone know where I
can get a hard drive interface?  Does anyone have one?
  Please respond via Mail.
 Thanks.

Matthew Royle;   royle@cps.msu.edu  ,  royle@crs.cl.msu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: steph@sys-mgt.mentorg.com (Stephen Blair)
Subject: Re: A500 and 68030 information wanted.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 17:00:12 GMT
Organization: mentor
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

I use a CSA-MMR 68030 (33Mhz) with .5Mb 70ns SRAM, 8Mb
32-bit 60ns PageMode RAM, an old Supra ByteSync SCSI interface
with 2Mb 100ns 16-bit RAM.  My A500 is a REV 5 into which I have
installed a FatterAgnus and SuperDenise.  (soldered the jumper
and cut the trace myself -- without a scratch or burn I might
add -- not bad for a software weenie)

When I first got my MMR all it had was the '030 and SRAM. The MMR
comes with software that allows you to upload the Kickstart ROM
image into 32-bit RAM.  If I didn't load the ROM image to 32-bit
RAM, SysInfo reported my system speed to be 12.04 times faster than
a stock A500.  If I loaded ROM into SRAM (using it up) then SysInfo
reported my speed as 1.65 times as fast as a stock A500.  

After I added the 8Mb expansion board to the MMR, I routinely load
thr ROM image into SRAM.  Now SysInfo reports the system to be 10.40 
times as fast as a stock A500.  The speed difference is due to the 
use of PageMode vs Static Column RAM.  

As the CPU in my MMR is rated at 40Mhz, all I need is a 38Mhz xtal
to squeeze out the last drop of speed from the beast.  Note that CSA
states that the MMR cannot be clocked at a rate higher that 38Mhz 
as the system becomes unreliable above that rate.

Both the CPU and FPU units are pin grid arrays.  The board provides
a socket for the 68000 7.14Mhz CPU.  The entire board plugs into the
68000 socket on the A500 motherboard.  The board is large enough to
cover FatAgnus and Denise so you cannot use a 2Mb ObesestAgnus board
or a FlickerFreeVideo.  There are workarounds for FFV and AdIDE drives
but they require soldersucking and other warranty-voiding activites, e.g.
to use an FFV, pull the Denise chip, desolder the Denise socket, solder
the FFV into the place where the Denise socket used to be, then plug
the Denise into the socket on the FFV.  This lowers the FFV-Denise 
combination so the MMR can fit.

They do allow use of either 68881 or 68882 FPUs.  These devices are
runnable at a frequency >= the rate of the CPU.

One other feature of the MMR is its ability to hold SRAM chips. on the
main board.  The design allows up to 2Mb of 35ns SRAM.  Currently
the only really affordable SRAM chips are 128Kbx8.  These can be had 
for approx. $40US each.  512Kbx8s are available but I was quoted a
cost of $400US each (that's right 10 times higher cost :-( )

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Mentor Graphics Corp.		steph@sys-mgt.mentorg.com
8005 SW Boeckman Road		Work: (503) 685-7012
Wilsonville, OR 97070-7777	A M O   P R O B O S
From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Orientation of A2000?
Date: 6 Apr 92 09:58:50 GMT
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt

d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander) writes:

>Would it be harmful to use an A2000 with a hardcard, when it's
>standing on its short side?

No. I had it working for years like that. Then I rearranged my desk and
now have the same A2000 (with PC-side hardcard) sitting normally again.
No problems.

The official advice is though to low-level format a harddrive when 
changing its orientation.
 
>I once placed it in this position. At the same time the df1: internal
>drive ceased to function. Could these two things be related?

Not really. No idea, sorry.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
From: slvj6@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Setting up an AmigaDOS network!
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:04:48 GMT
Organization: Utah State University

Well, I just finished installing eithernet (sp?) cards in the Amiga's at
work, and the software drivers.

It works great!  The boards are old Ameristar cards that WordPerfect had, and
the software is a new package (can't remember who makes it... it's advertised
in the latest Amazing Computing) that supports them under AmigaDOS.

The software requires AmigaDOS 2.0, and it takes about 5 min to install on each
system.  Just click on the Install icon and it does most of the work.
The system ID number in the startup file needs modifying, and the shared
devices need to be defined in a file, but that's it!

It does support password protection of devices, but I haven't had time to play
with it yet.  We're still stringing cable and have only tested it between two
machines so far, but it looks real good.

I also installed one of CBM's SCSI tape drives on a machine so we can do
backups over the net.  Guess what?  They only include Unix drivers with it.
So I had to install the BTN Tape Handler found on the FISH disks.
It would be nice if the documentation had suggested resonable parameter
settings.   It should have only taken 5 min to install as well.

The backup util I'm using is Ami-Back, but I'm going to try QuarterBack as soon
as it arrives.  Ami-Back didn't do a very good job of keeping the tape drive
running constantly.  A 40 Meg HD took 20 min to back up with the BTN number of
blocks set at 512 (I haven't tried larger #'s yet, the default of 1 takes over
2 hours).

I'll try to post a review with more details after I get to mess with them more.

James
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: paik%asylum.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Karen Paik)
Subject: A1000 power consumption
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:45:30 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

Hi,
    Could anyone tell me how many watts the following equipment uses?
    I already looked at the equipment and the Amiga Hardware manual.
                        
    1. Amiga 1000 computer with 1 external disk drive, internal 256K memory
       card, and starboard II memory expansion with 1 M
    2. 1080 Amiga monitor

                                    Thanks,
                                    Karen Paik

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From: bad1679@cs.rit.edu (Bernard A Doehner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: How can I get in touch with Capilano Computing?
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:45:52 GMT
Followup-To: bad1679@cs.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY


   I have seen LogicWorks by Capilano Computing on a friend's Amiga 500
and would like to buy the Analog circuit equivalent of Logicworks (if one exists). 
I have called several mail order Amiga dealers and none have heard
of Capilano Computing.                         

   Does anyone know the phone number of Capilano Computing or a dealer that
carries there software?

  Does anyone know if there is an Analog circuit (similar to LogicWorks) that
will work on the Amiga?  If so, PLEASE tell me about it.     

As a last resource, I'd buy a IBM bridgecard and buy an IBM program that
simlates Analog Circuits (called Electronic Workbench)

 I really hope it won't have to come to this!
Thanks for any info or pointers.

Bernie Doehner bad1679@cs.rit.edu
From: cholt@catpan.UUCP (Charles Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Death of Pirating
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:55:48 MDT
Organization: CATPAN BBS, Boulder CO (via C-Net Amiga)

   As a note, Pioneer HAS developed a read/write CD player.  It costs about $7,000 if I remember correctly.  I am unable to find the spec sheet on it though.

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From: d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: The GoldenGate card
Keywords: serial bridgeboard I/O
Date: 7 Apr 92 08:37:04 GMT
Reply-To: d87mt@efd.lth.se
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden


I'm considering buying a GoldenGate card from David Salamon. Has
anybody got one, and can give me some opinions about it? I
haven't heard anything bad about it, but on the other hand I
haven't heard anything good either.

Any informations appreciated.

Thanks.

Magnus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: roebel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Roebel)
Subject: NEC MultiSync 3FG am Amiga 3000
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:08:42 GMT

Hey you !

I would like to buy this new Monitor from Nec (Multisync 3FG) to
employ it on an Amiga 3000/16MHz. The technical specs of this Monitor
specify a minimal vertical Frequence of 55Hz.  I wonder wether this
monitor works well on the Amiga not only in the new Productivity but
in the old Pal/Interlace mode too.

Has any of you some experience concerning this problem ?

Thanks for your interest

Axel Roebel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Chris Wolf)
Subject: GVP Series I autobooting 
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:06:49 GMT

Could anyone with a GVP Series I (not II) Impact hard-card (the original
without any room for memory expansion) tell me which jumper on the card
is the one which enables/disables the autoboot feature?  Thanks.
						- Chris
,
From: cdavis@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Charles M. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum Drives - Are they reliable?
Summary: 105-120  MB HD recommendations
Keywords: Quantum, Maxtor
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:31:52 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

I am also looking for recommendations on a hard drive.
I am getting a 105-120 MB drive soon and am considering the
Quantum 105LPS and the Maxtor 7120.

Does anyone have any data on how these two models compare?  
What about the new Quantum 120LPS?  Factors to consider are:
	speed
	power consumption
	heat generation
	noise
	size
	reliability

I have a B2000 setup with a HardFrame controller (v. 1.9 ROM),
with a SupraRAM card (4MB).  I currently run DOS 1.3, but will
soon be moving up to 2.0 (I hope :^).  I have the Quantum 40S and
have been satisfied with its performance so far.  I am leaning
towards to 105LPS, but would be willing to try the Maxtor if it
receives good recommendations.

Thanks in advance for the help.



				Charles Michael Davis
				cdavis@ace.cs.ohiou.edu

				(No cute signature block!  :^)