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From: tcarter@53iss4.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Agnus Woes...
Keywords: Help Please
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:09:51 GMT
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA

First, my set-up: B2000/Rev 4.2 motherboard/OS 2.04 ROM/2 internal 3.5
floppies/2091 with 2 megs RAM/2052 with 2 megs RAM/52 meg Quantum and now,
8372a Agnus.

Now the story: Ordered and received my new chubby Agnus from Briwal. No
installation instructions. Expected that so I posted here for help and got
some so last night, installed chubby into my system as follows:
  1. Removed skinny Agnus using correct removal tool.
  2. Installed chubby Agnus and verified correct orientation.
  3. Located jumper J101 and moved jumper block 1 pin to the left.
  4. Located jumper pad J500 and surgicaly removed (using sharp knife, not too
     deep, I hope) the tracer between the pads.
  5. Reinstalled and verified all the stuff removed to install Agnus.
  6. Powered up and poof! 1 meg (give or take a little) CHIP RAM. WOW!

But...(You knew there was a but, didn't you)...something is wrong!

Now the problem: my set-up boots to the DH0: drawer icon and from there I
generally selest DirOpus (V3.29) and run most everything from there. So I boot
up and go into DirOpus and try to use Degrader (V1.0 and V1.1) and when the
system resets, POOF!....guru...8000 003. Sometimes 8000 004 but usually 8000
003 Address Error. Strange....worked perfect before Chubby Agnus.... So i run
Viruschecker (V6.15?) and VirusX and BootX (no not at the same time) and part
way through doing their thing, GURU....non recoverable, usually 8000 003
again. Other progs started from DirOpus seem to work fine (CED, Powerpacker,
LhA, QBTools and so on). One last observation....sometimes after the GURU and
after the left mouse button reset, it system seems to boot normally but locks
up either at the DH0: icon or after clicking on the DirOpus icon.

So, what did I do wrong? What did I forget to do? Is it possible I have a
flaky chubby Agnus? I have not (yet) tried to go back and uninstall the fat
guy, but can do this if necessary. The systm obviously recognizes 1 meg CHIP
so what else is there? What exactly does cutting the trace on J500 do? 

Any advice, help, sympathy, like experiences, etc, appreciated.
I have wasted enough bandwidth so maybe E-mail is best and I can post a
Summary if there is sufficent interest. Thanx in advance for any and all help.


--
Tom Carter
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: look, cbm is working
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:46:13 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

pwappy@well.sf.ca.us (Jeff Walkup) writes:
>
>I agree with everything you said.  I don't expect C= to officially
>"announce" anything before it's ready.  My point was that it would be nice
>to hear that they are even *working on something*.  I think one of the
>reasons we have seen so many of those rumor-filled (bogus, dream) posts is
>that Commodore hasn't said *anything*.

Well, I think it is rather obvious that we are working on sometbing otherwise
why would Commodore keep us around?  However, if you need to hear it from
us, well...

		*** We are working on something ***

Is that good enough?

/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
|    ///   BIX:  msinz      UUNET:  mks@cbmvax.commodore.com           |
|\\\///    Programming is like sex:                                    |
| \XX/     One mistake and you have to support it for life.            |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Quantum Drive Installation Nightmare!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:10:41 GMT

kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch) writes:

>Set the jumpers on the 105S to select SCSI ID 1... i.e. A0 on, A1 and A2 off.
>The 40MB drive inside is set to SCSI ID 0.

Somebody posted here a while back that SCSI numbers are supposed to decrease
as you go away from the host (number 7).  See if that makes any difference.

David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hillman@iastate.edu (Matthew C Hilleman)
Subject: IEEE-488 (HPIB) to Parallel
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:43:31 GMT


	What is the simplist way to convert from IEEE-488 to 25 pin
	parallel, If it only envolves a "listner"?

	Is their just a cable I can buy or make??

thanks

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From: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Do YOU have a multisync monitor on your amiga?
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:31:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3286
Reply-To: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

If you have a multisync monitor on your amiga, I am interested
in learning if you like it and if it does ntsc and pal well.
Send me e-mail.


Pete Ruttman
pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu
From: hoefling@sp28.csrd.uiuc.edu (Jay Hoeflinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1010 pass-thru hack
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:19:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: sp28.HOEFLING.92Aug17141918
Organization: /homes/hoefling/.organization


I have just found out that some A1010 drives (external 3.5" floppy drives)
have the pass-thru function disabled.  I was also told that there was
a hack for re-instating the pass-thru function.

Can anyone tell me what that hack is?

I have replaced my original power supply with a hefty one, so 
there shouldn't be any power problems with adding a new drive.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Jay Hoeflinger
hoefling@csrd.uiuc.edu

Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, Compiler Group
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 244-0288

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Jay Hoeflinger
hoefling@csrd.uiuc.edu

Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, Compiler Group
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 244-0288
From: st901745@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Alastair M. Bor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Supra 14.4 FAX
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: st901745@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Well.. I am now on my third SupraFax 14.4 modem. All three were flawless
as far as data,etc... the first one did not have any LEDS in the front
and the second one had a faulty display. These flaws were cosmetic only,
and the modem worked fine... I just got a new one and the display/LEDs
look Ok.... and the modem and fax even work... I guess their QC is just
bad. I have never had any of the functionality problems that people have
complained about and I know a few other SupraFAX owners who also
had no problems...

Just my thoughts...

-Alastair
st901745@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AMIGA ROOKIE NEEDS HELP FAST!!!
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:57:59 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <1992Aug20.134057.1@wharton.upenn.edu> poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
[...]
>He wants to buy a 200+ MB SCSI HD for his A3000, and was ready to purchase
>a Quantum LPS 210S from a store in the US (for $659!). I told him that they
>have come out with the much improved LPS 240S, but he was told by the salesman 
>that the 240 will NOT work with the A3000. Can anyone confirm or deny this? He
>says that he would rather be safe with the 210 than gamble with the 240 since 
>returning it will be extremely difficult. I suspect the salesman is trying to
>clear out an obsolete model.

Bullpucky.  I have a A3000-25/50 and I have the factory-installed Quantum
LPS52S, a Rodime RX1400, and a Quantum LPS240S.  Occasionally I also have
an A3070 tape drive, a 3M MCD-40 tape drive and a Syquest 44Mb drive
attached as well.  I use it with AmigaDOS v2.04 (SuperKickstart, i.e.,
2.0beta ROMs, but that shouldn't matter) and Amiga UNIX v2.1c.

The drive is fairly recent (it was purchased in May) and it works very
well.  I have, however, run the TurboQuantum publicly-distributable
program (I think it turns off mid-operation disconnects on Quantums) but
only as a work-around for a bug in the scsi.device that can cause a big
performance hit.  I haven't had any problems like SCSI bus lockups at
all.


>In any case, I cannot find a NEW 210S anywhere. Can anyone give me a source
>for this drive, or another brand SCSI drive in the 200MB range that is known 
>ot work with the A3000?

I think the LPS240S replaced the 210S, so I'm not sure the 210S is
manufactured anymore.  I haven't tried any other drive in that range.

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The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: abend@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (dan edward abend)
Subject: CBM '030 accel
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:40:27 GMT

I have an A2500/030, GVP series II controller and a 105meg Quantum, KS 1.3.

When I run using the '030, everything is fine but when I kick into low
gear and run the 68000, whenever I write something to the hard disk,
my partition gets clobbered.  I can recover it with a disk utility but
it comes up as NDOS until I do.  This is annoying and I'm pretty sure it's
not supposed to be that way.  

What might be the problem?  As far as I know, the system has always exhibited
this behavior.  To be honest, I don't use 'snail' mode very often can you
blame me.  especially with this happening.

Dan Abend (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu)				AMIGAphile
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sck@watson.ibm.com (SC Kennedy)
Subject: Re: 4 Gigs....and counting..
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:20:30 GMT
Distribution: ibm
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: SCSI Amigados

In article <34263@cbmvax.commodore.com>, mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
|> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
|> >Second, isn't the partition size limit under AmigaDOS 2gig?  I think I remember
|> >that it had a 2gig limit, and that signed arithmetic was used.
|> 
|> Well, we have not yet been able to test the system if it works with larger
|> than 2gig.  I do know that it will be a problem to have a file over 2gig due
|> to the fact that Seek() (and fseek()) take a signed value for the byte offset.

Once I get a spare drive or two, I'll let you know.

|> However, I claim that the number of people that will put a drive that is
|> over 2gig in size on their $500 Amiga coputer system will be rather low
|> for a while yet.  By the time this really becomes a problem, the fix will
|> have been done long ago.

Speak for yourself, I use my 3000 to test for bad drives on my Unix cluster, 
and given that we sometimes get a large amount of drives at once, it is not 
uncommon for my Amiga to have over 8 GB attached to it at once.

I'm probably going to do the world's largest Amiga Disk drive test again, and 
this time I'm going to shoot for 25 GB on 1 3000-16. By using ST43400N drives 
I should be able to put 20.4 GB off of the 3000 built-in controller, and borrow a
2091 to connect thother ST41600N to bring me up to 25-27 GB. ( I've just got
a few defectives this time.) 
 
Any thing you want me to do when I get the drives up? (No cheap comments 
please) Send E-mail or call (914) 945-1992
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Distributed High Performance Computing | or actions of my employer, and their 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: New A3000T ?!?
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:45:32 GMT

In <1992Aug19.093028.16282@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>The '882 was a typographical error.

Hmm.. surely not typographical :-)

Regards,
-- 
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Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
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From: un032463@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Multisync Monitor & Pana. Printer For Sale
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:57:22 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

FOR SALE!

	I have a one year old NEC 3Ds for sale:  ---> $425
		 one year old Pana. KXP1124: ---> $150

Please E-Mail me with an offer.  Thanks...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: orre@thalamus.sans.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Subject: Re: Where to get 2.04 ROMs?
Reply-To: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:05:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.120949.23843@cs.ruu.nl>
clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar) writes:

> ... someone entered with the question: 'Where the hell do
>  I get these ROMs (and the rest of the package)?'
>
>  Our local Commodore dealer says he knows nothing, and
>  the adds in foreign mags only show ROMs without manuals ...
Well, they have been out for a long time, I bought mine DOS 2.04+ROM
+ manuals (this time a very good DOS manual) in December and that was
about USD 95 then at Creative Computers in CA. I did'nt find it in the
current Creative Computers ad but you can probably get it there. Safe
Harbor, WI, have it anyway for USD 85. I even think that our local
dealers here in Sweden have it now :) If you don't find it in the NL
you can try in Germany but you may get problem to get it in english. I
think, however, that DOS 2.1 is out now, or in just a few weeks why
you may wait just a little. This includes both CrossDOS and support for
local languages etc.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: pwappy@well.sf.ca.us (Jeff Walkup)
Subject: Re: look, cbm is working
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:27:00 GMT



I agree with everything you said.  I don't expect C= to officially
"announce" anything before it's ready.  My point was that it would be nice
to hear that they are even *working on something*.  I think one of the
reasons we have seen so many of those rumor-filled (bogus, dream) posts is
that Commodore hasn't said *anything*.
From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!!!  Quantum Drive Installation Nightmare!
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:36:26 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com

In article <1992Aug20.052735.7068@reed.edu>, kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch) writes:

> power supply, and installed the resistor terminator packs on the 105S 
> (orientation of the resistor packs, I would presume, doesn't matter).
> 
I don't know about the rest of the problem, but if those are the 8-pin 
single-in-line resistor packs then the orientation does matter. One end of
the package should have a dot beside the last lead. That is pin 1, and the
socket should be appropriately marked as well.

Steve
From: jamesp@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (James Pickering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: null-modem-cable : how to make ?
Keywords: null modem
Date: 15 Aug 92 07:23:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia

In article <1992Aug13.183859.4170@fripp.ri.cadre.com> jh@cadre.com writes:
>In article 22660@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de, rensing@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Stefan Rensing) writes:
>>Does anybody know how to make a correct null-modem-cable ?
>>I tried connecting GND-GND, SHIELD-SHIELD and cross-connecting
>>What else do I have to connect ?
>
>You should be able to get away with connecting pins 7 and 20 straight through
>and crossing pins 2 and 3.  That's bare bones, but it should do it.  If you've
>got an 8 wire cable to work with, connect 4,5,6,7,8 and 20 straight through,
>and cross 2 and 3.

This will probably not work for the same reason that Stefan's did not
work. ie. The computer doesn't realise there is another machine there.
Pins 5,6 and 8 are expected to be raised by the connected device, and
do not carry signals of their own, so simply connecting them between
the two computer doesn't change anything.
The best (most generic) null modem cable that I have found to work
with most devices (even between terminal servers - an interesting
application) is this.

On each ends bus (solder them together with a glob of solder, and do not
connect between the connectors, this is local) - 
4 and 5 together RTS-CTS ie saying when the computer is ready to send,
        the other computer is ready to receive.
20, 6 and 8 together ie saying when the computer is online so is the other
        computer.

Now between the two ends, connect -
2 to 3 and 3 to 2 (the TX/RX crossover)
7 to 7 and 1 to 1 (the grounds, SG and FG)
as well as this it a good idea to solder the cable shield
to the back of the connectors (ie so the outside metal parts of the
connectors are connected through the shield).

The reason I put in so many grounds is sometimes some terminal servers
(and some computers for that matter) use different ground points, and
with this you can always find a common ground. 
Note: Do Not connect the Signal Ground to any other grounds. It _can_
be a bad idea.

As for games that work over null modems, Battle Chess, Populous,
F29 (I think) and Stunt Car Racer are those that I know work. (Don't
ask me for hints on how to get them working, if you own the game, read
the manual, if you don't then you can't expect anything. I don't
play the games, I have just seen some working).

Hope this helps.


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| Disclaimer: This is my opinion, not those of the above organisation |
| E-Mail: jamesp@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au jdpicker@cs.adelaide.edu.au |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: "glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: suprascsi + 175 meg
Date: 16 Aug 92 17:26:18 EST
Reply-To: "glen mead" <glen.mead@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Hi All,

  I recently purchased an Amiga 2000 with a Supra SCSI controller and a
Seagate ST225N (20 meg) mechanism in it and I wish to replace that
mechanism with a Seagate 175 meg (CDC) mechanism.  SupraFormat has me
completely confused and I'm not getting anywhere.  I have some specific
requirements for ID numbers etc...I wish for my 175 meg mechanism to be
at SCSI ID #1 and my 80 meg Mac mechanism (for Amax or Emplant in the
future) to be at ID #2.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Glen
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From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Aus Special soon (WAS: 040 prices)
Summary: RCS will offer special to User group members
Keywords: 040, prices, RCS special offer soon
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:49:03 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, QC CANADA



>jim@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady) said:

>Hi All

>I've been pricing A2000 040 accelerators here in Australia; I'm looking at
>$A3500 ($US2500) for a fusion forty !!!!
>Other makes are similarly priced.

>This sounds REALLY high to me. Can someone mail me the names of some good
>US or Canadian mail order retailers and their prices ?

>Thanks in Advance

>Jim

They sounded high to me too I showed your message to RCS and their
marketing manager thought so also.

As a result of message, RCS will be putting together a Amiga User
Group Member offer specifically for Australian users. The offer should
be availible within a month's time (likely by the end of the month).

I am told the offer will be exactly the same as the previous special
offer they made to US Club members. That offer was for $995 US/0meg
(plus duty, taxes, shipping). While the extra costs are the responsibility
of the buyer, RCS will investigate these costs beforehand and inform
potential buyers what to expect. Regardless, they are quite confident
that the total cost will be significantly less than those you quoted.

I am told they will offer the same price on 32bit ram ,ie:4meg/175US.
The US special offer also included special prices on several softwares.
I do not know at this time whether these will be included in the
Australian special offer.

When this offer is availible I will post full details. Perhaps someone
can indicate to me the appropriate ..aus newsgroup.

Also, If any users in Australia wish have their user group informed of
the special when availible, please send me the complete snail-mail
address via *private email*(!). Please do not post addresses etc to the
newsgroups. It would be helpful if someone could send me a full list
with addresses of Aus User Groups.

If anyone wishes to contact RCS directly

RCS
120 McGill Street,
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H2Y 2E5
tel:514-871-4924
fax:514-871-4926

thanks,

Stephen
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From: sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive Error
Keywords: please help
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:15:45 GMT
Organization: Fred's Lounge


I recently had my machine crash the other day when trying to write a file
to one partition of my hard drive. This partition is fairly full,
so this new file may have been too big for the space left, but I'm
not sure.  Anyway, when I re-started my computer and tried to mount
this partition (the other two are okay) I get a couple notices
saying:
Volume NAME has a Read Write Error
And then after I cancel that twice, I get a 
Key 38675 bad header type.

I can still access te files on the partition after all this, but the last one I
tried to write to it is still there with 0 bytes. Attempts to
delete it tell me that the disk is not validated.

Typing in info correctly reports the size of the partition, but no
other information is given. 

What do I do to correct the problem?

My system is Amiga 1000, with a 105 MB Quantum on a Flash Card in a
Toolbox and a 1MB C.Ltd card on the pass-thru.

Thanks a million!
Scot


sjk@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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