HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton)
Subject: URGENT Will this work on a 1200
Reply-To: hilton@bahtat.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Company
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:02:32 GMT


HI!

I have a chance of getting the following monitor:

It's a trinitron that has the following scanning frequency:

Vertical  : 50 - 87 Hz
Horizontal: 28 - 49 kHz

Inputs:

RGB D-sub 9-pin Analog.

Sync input: TTL level, polarity free. Composite sync
is acceptable at Pin #8, sync on green is acceptable.

There is also a Timing Chart (summaary follows)

1. VGA H kHz 31.47
       V Hz  70.1

2. 1024 x 768 interlace
   H 35.52 
   V 87.0

3. 35 kHz
    800 x 600 (non-interlace example)
   H kHz 35.16
   V Hz   56

4. 48 kHz
   1024 x 768 (non-interlace example)
    H kHz 48.19
    V Hz  60.0

Then it says 3,4 sync polarity free


Any help would be much appreciated



Cheers,

Greg
From: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Need skip perf in DJ500 driver
Date: 21 Nov 92 07:03:07 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Nov18.155311.29195@occrsh.att.com> pkm@occrsh.att.com (Pat_Moore(6815)) writes:

>Has anyone ever created a printer driver for the HP DeskJet 500C that will
>allow for continueous paper.  I would like to print banners using pagestream
>(as shown in Amazing mag.) and use paintjet paper with the sprocket holes
>torn off.  If I could get the printer not to page eject and not to skip the
>perferations I would have it made.

All drivers I have looked for turn Perf Skip off before doing
graphics (this includes Commo's driver). The problem is most likely
the page length. PCL is normaly a page orientated language. To
avoid gaps, you may increase the paper length in preferences and
run initprinter before dumping with PageStreams preferences
drivers (do not use the Pagestream driver).

Never tried... but this the only way I can see...

>	Is there another way?

-- 
Wolf Faust                 Internet: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org
Germany                        FIDO: 2:249/3.5
Tel: (+49)69 5486556         CBMNet: wfaust@venus.adsp.sub.org
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From: traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: X-Windows and Fortran for the Amiga
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:05:20 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalo.fnal.gov

Hi--

I have two questions:

o Does anyone have a copy of AC/Fortran what utilizes the 68020 processor that they
are willing to sell?

o Does anyone have the number for the makers of X-Windows for the Amiga or have a
copy of X-windows they are willing to sell? Even the name of the company would
be appreciated.

Please e-mail replies directly.  Thank you.

				-Mike Traynor
From: slhmz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Bouncy-Wouncy C= 1950 Monitor!
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:17:27 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

My Commodore 1950 Monitor has just lately started to do the
"jittery wiggly" where the picture bounces up and down about
a millimeter.  It only happens 1 out of 20 times, but when it
does it, it does it for an entire day.  If I turn off the monitor
over night, then it is just fine in the morning.

I still have 3 months of Commodore "Gold Service" left.
Should I replace the monitor, or will Commodore come to
my house, turn on the monitor, see nothing is wrong because
it only does it once out of 20 times, and say, "It's not broken!"
And not replace it.

--
Faith Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.oz.au (Steven Mathers)
Subject: Re: A1200, SysInfo benchmark tests.
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:08:12 GMT

In article <DQa+r*kj1@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov2.200802.7834@cs.olemiss.edu>, Skip Sauls writes:
|> 
|> > so, but the amount of whining about the A1200 is almost as bad as that about
|> > the A4000.  What in the world do people expect?
|> 
|> The folks on this net expect to get the best, fastest, newest technology in a
|> laptop package for under $500 - no, that is too expensive, make that price $1.
|> 
|> 68040 at 50 Mhz. (or 100 Mhz Alpha or...)
|> fast Gigabyte hard drive (or three)
|> CD-ROM jukebox
|> DAT
|> DSP
|> 2048x2048x24 display
|> at least 20 Meg ultra fast static RAM
|> 8 Meg ultra fast CHIP RAM
|> 20 Meg Floptical drive
|> 5.25" HD drive
|> emulation mode that runs ALL software for ALL computers faster than the original
|>   computer
|> 
|> and free software and hardware updates for life.


Put me down for 1...no hang on, no slots???  How can I expand the thing?

Another Commodore fuck-up!
From: d91-han@ludd.luth.se (Andersson Henrik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP with PSP to A2000
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:02:08 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

I nead some help to know what the signals from the power supply on an
2000A so.

What do the key, TICK and +5V USER do ? (I'm trying to connet a diffrent PSP)

send any info to:

d91-han@ludd.luth.se

Thanks.
From: steve@Celeborn.lvunix.com (Steve Slade)
Subject: Re: HELP: Faulty Syquest: rapidly flashing green light
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:28:49 PST
Organization: Not even Close

Iftikhar Zaman (ociszam@black.ox.ac.uk) wrote:

: However, now whenver I turn it on I get a rapidly flashing green
: light--it will load the cartridge and eject it, but the cartridge
: never actually gets mounted.
: 
: Anyone seen this before?  Any ideas?

I had a Syquest a while ago.  in case of a hard drive failure the green and
sometimes red lights would flash to alert you of thi.  In the docs there was
a chart that told you what the number of green, red and or green &red
flashes means.  Hope this helps.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Does HP Deskwriter = Deskjet?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:58:42 GMT

In article <rhong.28dw@terapin.com> rhong@terapin.com (Randall Hong) writes:
>How about the other way around?  Going from a DeskJet and using it on a Mac?

   That would work, but don't expect to use the DeskWriter drivers.  You
would have to find a driver for the DeskJet to use it.

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,aus.computers.amiga
From: jeice@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Jose Goicoechea)
Subject: Problems with AdIDE + V2.xx
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:44:37 GMT


Just recently I got v2.0 running on my A1000 but it crashing with AdIDE as 
it goes through startup-sequence.
Has anyone had this problem before ??
Could someone please upload the updated device drivers for the Adide?
Or the new software?

Any help greatly appreciated 
Regards 
Jose


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jose Goikoetxea 	 ### TECNOFORCE ###        jeice@newt.phys.edu.au
 			~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
		       The Wave Of The Future!!    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dburnett@emunix.emich.edu (Don Burnett)
Subject: Re:  Floppy size in 1200?
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:17:01 GMT

In article <dej.022p@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca> dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones) writes:
>In article <13414@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
>>>>Arrrgh.  This is my *only* gripe about the A1200.  So now all these AGA games
>>>>are going to have to fit on an 880K floppy?  And so much for CrossDos 
>>>>actually being *useful*. :(
>>
>>(CBM may even leapfrog forward to a 3.52Mb disk (like IBMs 2.88), but
>>I doubt it! (although I hope to be corrected))
>
   Some people have been complaining about the size of the floppy for games.
   Personally, I think since the PCMCIA slot is there that's a moot point.
   You can fit up to many MB's of rom on one of these small cards. Plus the
   load times for this would be instantaneous.. I think however the Cross
   DOS support would be a good reason to have a 1.44 mb floppy but you can
   still live with 720K disks for data transfer.. Also, if you are talking
   about larger files ASDG packages a great utility with ADPRO called Splitz
   and Joinz which also comes with the equivalent PC, Windows and MAC
   versions that will help break up just about any large file up over
   several disks...




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******************************************************
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EMU Mathematics Lab Consultant

President, CreativEdge Systems
1436 N Prospect, Ypsilanti, MI  48198
From: cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200's & IDE HARD DRIVES
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:12:34 GMT

A1200's have IDE interfaces however HDToolBox states
that the hard drive in my machine is SCSI as too does the Boot Menu.

Is this a bug in Kickstart 3 or has my machine really got a SCSI drive fitted?

The drive is a ST9096A

Replies by e-mail please.

Thanks

Carson Cheung
From: an752@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrew N. Rodak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: SyQuest Removable Hardrive
Date: 22 Nov 1992 04:20:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I have recently purchased and installed an external 88 meg Syquest Hardrive.
The unit functions perfectly and is almost as quick as my two internal Quantum
Hds. I do however, have a question.  The orange access light on the Syquest
flashes for a split second approximatly every five to six seconds.  This
also causes the green HD led on my 2000HD to flash at the same time.  Is this
normal or should I contact the sellor with regard to a replacement. Any help
with this small but bothersome problem with be much appreciated.  Thanks in
advance.
From: juncewic@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu (thomas michael juncewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: ACCELERATOR PROB...
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:43:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Nov17.144301.735
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science

Hello!  First off, I'd like to thank all of you who responded to my desperate
pleas for help on getting an accelerator!!  I finally decided on, and got a
great deal on, a GVP 25MHz 030/68882.  Prob is a friend of mine told me that
because the GVP board shuts off the 68000 socket, my AdIDE and hard drive
will not function in accelerated mode!  Being a starving college student,
I'm afraid to throw in several hundred bucks for a SCSI drive combo...Anyway,
I just wanted to hear from some of you out there that may have this set-up 
(i.e. G-force and AdIDE) and can verify that they indeed do not work together
before I go ahead and get the hard drive combo..Thanx in advance...

Tom
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000,1.3,2.0 HELP!!!
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:35:25 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

alan@uts.amdahl.com (Alan Bomberger) writes:
: 
: Alas, I have found most of the games I liked on the 500
: don't work on the 3000 even with the 1.3 kickstart.
: 
: To many hot shots went directly the the now changed
: hardware.  Investment down the drain.  

Has anyone gotten the game "Sentinel" to work on an A3000? It
doesn't help just to kick in 1.3.

-- 
=============================================================================
 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
=============================================================================
From: batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: DCTV + HP500C + SoundTrapIII look perfectly together... NOT!
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:09:49 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

I have recently purchased a DCTV and a HP500C.  These both go into the 
parallel ports so I bought a resonably priced manual switcher so either 
the DCTV works, or the HP500C.  This is fine, until I tried using my 
SoundTrapIII audio digitiser.  This SoundTrapIII has a through port so 
technically the information should go through the SoundTrapIII to the 
switcher box (or the DCTV or the HP500C or both) without any problems, 
right?  WRONG!  And you don't win the toaster oven!
 
If I have the SoundTrapIII plugged in and then the HP500C plugged into 
that, I can print, but all the CR's seem to be filtered out before they 
reach the printer, which means I can fit HEAPS on a page, but limites the 
documents readability somewhat.
 
If I have the SoundTrapIII plugged in and then the DCTV plugged into 
that, I get all sorts of psycho-mind-blowing bullcrak with the picture 
(IF I'M LUCKY), although it's turned my Amiga into one of the most 
"Abstract" effect generators, I really would like to be able to have the 
SoundTrapIII plugged in AND have the switcher coming off that WITHOUT 
having to take a really excellent acid-trip whilst trying to edit the
24bit pictures.

If any brother or sister has any ideas into why this this ain't doin' 
what its damn well told, please tell me so I can kick some serious ass 
one my ultimate machine (Amiga) without having to remove the parallel 
cables all the time.  Damn right, and peace be with ya children.

Praise da lord, amen.

--                                                                    
     Kerry Emerson.  User: `Darknight Si'  UUCP: Batman@amigans.gen.nz
      Co-SysOp of Silent Imperium: +64 06 3471763 2400bps (24 HOURS)  
     Home:  19B Somerset Road, Wanganui, New Zealand. +64 06 3446499. 
                        **** Quote of the Week ****
              Elementory math:  "IBM + Windows = Macintosh"
From: holler@holli.UUCP (Jan Holler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1200 with '040 ?
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:25:59 GMT
Organization: my own mess
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Nov16.172702.3226@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ajs@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite) writes:
> 
> OK, before anyone flames this for sounding daft, I don't know much about
> chip connections and hardware generally but I was wondering wether it would
> be possible to plug a 68040 into an A1200. I realise it may need a host board
... 
> Yours Ponderingly, The Splodge Man Thing Experience ..

I can understand that there was a need for acceleration-tech for the old and
loved A2000, since there was no other choice.
I cannot understand that someone comes up with a question like the upper!
There is now a range of Amigas which should fulfill all desires!
Why do you ask such things! There are other problems which should be
solved.
And worse of all: people through their energy in answering such questions.
Included me for this one.

-- 

                    Jan Holler - Bern, Switzerland 
           uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswi!augs1!holli!Jan_Holler
From: borzieri@cavour.ICO.olivetti.com (Ivan Borzieri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200 Doubts...
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:39:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: olivea.56991
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA

Hi,

I'm planning to sell all my existing hw to get a brand new Amiga 1200, but I 
have some doubts :) :

			- Is it true that if I get a MultiSync Monitor
			(scanning down to 15 Khz) I can display ALL the
			modes the a1200 is capable of ?

			In which modes I STILL get flickering ? 

			- A friend of mine told me IDE HD used in A1200
			are somewhat different from the ones used in PCs.
			Is that true ?

		
							Thanks,
							Ivan
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HD ad infinitum
Date: 20 Nov 92 06:59:09 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <17NOV199208503289@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov> olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
 >In article <37083@cbmvax.commodore.com>, lassa@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Lassa) writes...
 >>[stuff deleted]
 >>would be a useful product for those with LD-equipped amigas.  And yes, it
 >>is technically feasible.  That's all a C= engineer can tell you.  Maybe
 >>you should make your request known to your dealer, as I'm sure (s)he's in
 >>contact with C= Sales/Marketing.

Good advice.

 >Not to slam the C= hardware department (I love the machines), but it seems to
 >me that a responsible company wouldn't refer a customer back to a dealer when
 >they've just contacted a person within the company.  Are you hardware guys cut
 >off from the rest of the company?  

Yes, they are, sort of. Look, Commodore is in first line a *sales* company,
lead by sales people. They hear to those people who they are trying to sell
their products, and this are the dealers. It has extremely more impact on
management when a dealer says "Give me a machine with this one extra
feature, and I will buy ten times more devices from you!", than when some
of the engineers makes the same proposal. "Free Market"

-- 
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Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
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From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:19:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: nwnexus.1992Nov17.091937.21765
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service

In article <Bxu8oB.BuB@starnine.com> mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.221949.6127@cs.mcgill.ca> jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov6.000536.22326@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>>>In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Nov4.202447.10362@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
(No he didn't)

FLAME ON!!!

Ok, I want everyone who is contributing to this thread to examine the
above attributions, come to their senses, and STOP IT!
This is absurd! You guys know better than this. This is NOT the place
for this discussion.

>>>Funny, I don't seem to recall saying anything about supporting Bush.  If I'm

So what? How does this relate to amigas?

>>This was something that Reagan and Bush harped about extensively in the early
>>1980s during a period when they set out to help "mom and pop businesses tied
>>up in government red tape."  

Irrelavent!
>
>Yeh, I thought that sounded like a good idea too!  I agree that it
>didn't take Reagan long to start attacking the core of the economic woes
>of business in this country... to much government.
>

Who #@!*%! cares??

>Who cares?
Well now, THIS I can agree with!

[Rest of misplaced blather deleted!]

Seriously though, I am just dying to express my views on some of the
things that the poor delusioned extreme conservative was belching
forth, but (with the exception of this runon sentence) I won't, 'cause
this is the wrong place for it!!! Niether should you!
AAAaarrrggh!

FLAME OFF

-Pete
From: saunders@cs.arizona.edu (Richard T. Saunders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HD Checksum error
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:39:37 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

I was extracting something using "lha" and my machine crashed.  When I came
back up, My drive spun for a while, and then gave me a system requestor:
saying something like "Checksum error on block 4344 on Work: volume".

So, I pulled out "HDToolbox" and ran a "Verify Data on Drive".  No problem.

When I try to delete something off the "Work:" volume, I get "Volume Work:
is not validated."

PLEASE HELP!  I am not quite sure what to do.  Obviously, a low-level format
would fix my problem, but the problem doesn't seem that nasty ...

		Gooday,

		Richie


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Networking?  WHY?!?
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:50:30 GMT

In article <ALANB.92Nov13113534@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com> alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:
>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:13:59 GMT, easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) said:
>
>>>                                                    If you notice, very few
>>>PCs are sold today with networking software and hardware built in.  OS/2
>
>>   I could mention a PC company that has gone to built in ethernet on
>> most of their desktops and laptops...  :-)
>
>Which type? Is it useful for connecting, say, one desktop to one laptop
>with nothing else, or does it assume you have a hub to connect them both to?

  This is the point where I have to apologize for my, er- this company. :-)
The connector is "friendly net", aka the stupid connector found on
Mac Quadras.  Its usefulness is nil as far as I'm concerned.  You still
have to buy a media attachment unit to get to thinnet, twisted pair, etc.

>>   For large installations, yes.  For they guy who wants to connect 2 pc's
>> together in his home, ethernet is a waste.
>
>So why has that PC company you mentioned gone to built in ethernet? Do you
>only expect to be used in large installations? Or that enough will be used
>in large installations that it brings down the cost to where its worth
>building in for everyone? (I agree this is less likely to be true for Amigas
>than PCs).

  Its some kind of "high end" vision.  You'd have to ask the marketing guys
who dream this stuff up why they wanted it.  I'm just an engineer.  I do
what I'm told (not without a lot of arguing though :-).

  These PC's come with client shells for Novell, Banyan Vines, and Lan Man,
so I'd say that the target is for higher end systems and not for the 
casual user to hook up 2 pc's.  On the other hand, they just started
shipping Windows for Workgroups with these pc's which implies that its
for the casual hook up of 2 computers.  Its still an incomplete 
solution since there is no media attachment units in the box.

  btw, I do low end desktops which thankfully dont require this 
built in ethernet.  If a user buys my computer and wants networking,
he's supposed to buy a NE2000 or SMC card and throw it in a slot.

  Of course these are my opinions.  I dont speak for my company.

>     Alan Braggins, alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com, abraggins@cix.compulink.co.uk

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:48:57 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <in2a505.722001946@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> in2a505@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Elvers) writes:
> c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
> 
> 
> >> Also when I hit CTRL-A-A to reboot the hard drive parks and spins-down
> >> then back up again. (seems kinda weird)!
> 
> >Yes it does... :)
> 
> Nope... It's normal! It's called reset ;)

Many IDE drives are set up so that they can spin down on software
command or after an idle period to reduce power consumption in a
portable environment.   Some of them like to spin down / up on a
reset!

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: c07@clark.edu (Joshua A Clow)
Subject: Amiga in States?
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA
Distribution: Uusa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:35:13 GMT


Last I heared, the A-1200 was supposed to be announced at Comdex. 
Has there been news which I've somehow missed, or has the date been
bumped back? (Please no...please no.....)