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From: 832root@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Dataflyer 500 & Maxtor problem
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:24:08 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

This is just a notice..

A  couple of months ago, I purchased a Dataflyer 500 IDE hard drive controller.
To go with it, I had a brand new Maxtor LXT120 (I think it was an LXT).. the
127 meg drive.  Upon installing it, I found that I was able to format it,
but then shortly thereafter, the drive would crash and I'd get checksum
errors all over the place.  Then I'd try to reboot and it'd be gone.

So letting the machine sit for a while, I tried booting a couple hours later.
Fine.  It was all there.  After a few more hours of work, it was gone again.
After I had installed a ton of software.

So rather than try to deal with it, I decided to reformat it again.  Booted
up the Dataflyer Install disk, and it tried telling me I had a 23 meg hard
drive installed.  I was awfully frustrated by this time.

Eventually, I sent the drive back, and got another one.  Same thing happened.
So I sent the second one back and I now have a Quantum LPS 120.

The Quantum works fine.

Has anyone else had problems between the Maxtor hard drives and the Dataflyer?
 
             - Rick Root
From: raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Genlocks and the A4000
Date: 12 Oct 92 01:20:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: terapin.raymondu.1ulm
Organization: BBS


   I'm going to call CATS tommorow for the full scoop, but let's see if I can
get some answers here:

   Will existing Amiga genlocks (namely Digital Creations' SuperGen [external])
work on the Amiga 4000, or will A4000 owners have to wait for new "next
generation" encoders to hit the market?
   Will the genlock encode all resolution modes to NTSC video?

   As an Amiga videographics person, this is a must-know.


Raymond Ulibarri
Vice President
MultiCon
Multimedia Concepts
(510)261-1001
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:52:14 -0400 
From: "Jon C. Slenk" <angst+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Non mouse devices

Apologies if this is the wrong group (is there amiga.device-drivers?),
but: I have some hardware that I would like to be able to hook up to my
Amiga through the game ports. Can someone point me in the general
direction of learning how to write & install device drivers so I can hack
some up for my trackballs and koala tablet?

Thanks for any input (har har),
-Jon.

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Carnegie Mellon     Pittsburgh PA      Disclaimed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:21:56 GMT

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

>> But the real problem, which Marc is refering to, is that the A4000 cannot 
>> produce non-interlace hires-interlace resolutions, that the A3000 can, with 
>> the help of the flicker-fixer. This is a quite important features, considering 
>> the wast array of applications that use this display mode currently!
>...
>> 
>> Sorry, but I disagree. Sure, it would be nice if applications would support 
>> the displaydatabase and be able to use any screen resolution. But most 
>> applications does not support this. For instance, I love CygnusEd Pro, but on 
>> an A4000 it will operate in interlaced mode -- and there is no flickerfixer 
>> that will convert it to a non-lace display. It would be useless, I'm afraid.

But i beg to disagree, there is a program that will push the interlace screen
up to DBL mode on almost all software.  I think it is called a2ntsc11.lha

>This especially comes across in the flaming about the IDE drive.  Nobody
>seems to want to really talk about how well it works or doesn't, just that
>SCSI is what they think it should have and *everyone* should pay for.
>Just about everyone needs a hard disk to make effective use of a machine
>like this.  Not many really care about the interface, only is it big enough
>and can you get/attach a larger or second drive.  Nowhere near as many
>folks as should have have SCSI attached backup devices.  All the A4000 does
>is say that folks with special needs have to pay some increment over the
>base model to address those needs.

Well i do have a question on this IDE drive.  Would I have any problems 
transfering files over the serial port  and tranversing across the IDE drive?
I know with my a500 and gvp scsi drive, I will get errors on the transfer of
just 2400baud modem.  I don't really mind the fact the a4000 comes with an
IDE if it is better or even for where the serial port is concerned. 
However I will be in need for a scsi card for my syquest drive, and hope
to not have as much problems the serial port.

>George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...

Martin
From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: A4000/Alice
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:24:19 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: world
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: ram a4000 simm manual
Summary: A4000 manual says it all

In article <67688@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:
>Dave,
>
>Hi. Some folks have been contacting me saying they've had problems
>determining from the manual what kind of SIMMs they need to purchase
>to expand the A4000. I'd like to put another 4MB SIMM in myself, so
>I'm curious too. But mainly I'd like to have an answer for folks...

Um, the manual specifies the number of pins, height, sidedness, speed,
type, capacity, and organization of compatible SIMMs for both Fast and
Chip RAM.  What additional information would you say should be included
to allow folks to order the appropriate parts?  

Save, of course, manufacturer's part numbers, which is rather *too* specific
for us to include there.  But maybe Dave H. will oblige here for those.

>Denny Atkin                | dennya@cup.portal.com          | "No matter where
>Editor                     | Portal, GEnie, and BIX: dennya | you go, there you
>COMPUTE's Amiga Resource   | CIS: 75500,3602                | are." - B.Banzai

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employed by, not speaking for:              Commodore Business Machines Inc.
From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Info on Par port writes?
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:31:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: hplsla.11260021
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA

I've just started playing with getting data into my A3000 through the
parallel port.  I'm using the dos.library read routine.  It seems to
be working but I note that the "strobe" and "acknowledge" are
reversed:  I have to use pin 10 to let the 3000 know data is
available and the 3000 acknowledges it on pin 1.  Is this documented
somewhere?  Is there any documentation on what the other pins do on
reads?  What determines data direction on the data lines (e.g., how
do I avoid trying to drive the data lines when the A3000 may be
wanting to drive them, or does it only drive them when it actually
has a "write" to take care of?)

In summary, where is the parallel port thoroughly documented?

Cheers,
Tom
tomb@lsid.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: s37732v@lk-hp-2.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
Subject: Re: New Amiga(s) Expansion/Future
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:47:44 GMT

In article <jbickers.0gm5@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

   Quoted from <67346@cup.portal.com> by Christopher_Thomas_Winward@cup.portal.com:

   > Who in their right mind would ever dare to develop specifically for the
   > A4000 and AA chipset when it only comes on one or two of the most

       People with a specific market that can use the extra capability,
       which funnily enough happens to be what the Amiga market is.

       So let's let the professional developers decide what's good and
       bad, eh, instead of spouting off for no particular reason.

   > |\ * * /  ????     Christopher Winward- Portal.com      ------------------- |
   *** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***

And the most important thing is that they don't have to develop to some
specific chipset. If they use OS correctly they should know what kind
of resolutions, color amount etc.. is available. That's why display
database is there.

Well, maybe they need to do specific code for HAM8 but supporting other
modes is very easy. If they do it right!
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From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: MB considered harmful
Date: 12 Oct 92 08:55:15 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO's message of 8 Oct 92 22:06:13 GMT

>>>>> On 8 Oct 92 22:06:13 GMT, eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) said:

Eyvind> I see a lot of people are putting MB into their killfiles...  I
Eyvind> have a *better* solution!  Yes!  Why don't the people who run
Eyvind> c.s.a.a put him in THEIR killfile?  Or no, even better!  Why
Eyvind> doesn't MB put himself into his own killfile for posting
Eyvind> messages?  Gee, I wonder why noone thought of this before...:)

I think "How Do I put Marc Barrett in my kill file?" should be in the
FAQ. As well as a suggestion that everyone, especially new users, put
MB in their kill file immediately. 

For those people who do not put MB in their kill file, they should be
reminded to *always* edit the Followup-To: header to be
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy

With all the edu sites back in session, fighting the "war on -MB-" is
more important than ever. I hope everyone supports the campaign to put
MB in their kill files and make the csa hierarchy safe for humanity again.

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Oh, I get it!!  ``The BEACH goes on,'' huh, SONNY??
From: ghorm@shuksan.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Douglas Ghormley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quick A3000 question
Date: 15 Oct 1992 21:56:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: shuksan.cs.berkeley.edu

Is the bus 16 or 32 bits wide?

Thanks,
Doug Ghormley
From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:18:21 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper) writes:
:    Plus the a4000 can display higher res non-interlaced screens that the
: a3000 can anyways.

No it can't. A3000 can display all the resolutions that A4000 can
display.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sijben@cs.utwente.nl (Paul Sijben)
Subject: Cold HD controller problems
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:16:51 GMT

Some time ago I bought a second hand VORTEX 20MD harddisk. 
It works just fine,
	in the summertime!
When it gets colder outside (like now) The hd controller keeps resetting
the computer until the controller is warm enough (i guess abouth 17 degrees
celcius). I tried resoldering several points on the board but it doesn't 
seem to work.

DOES ANYONE RECOGNISE THIS PROBLEM? AND/OR CAN ANYONE HELP ME SOLVE IT??
 
 
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 Hardware questions
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:23:03 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <3alu03kxadYJ00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> alan@uts.amdahl.com (Alan Bomberger) writes:
> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> >Anyone who swaps cables around with the power on gets just what they deserve
> 
> Does anyone besides me think that it is a bit much to ask me to turn off
> my computer in order to plug in a modem.  Some seem to believe that
> computers don't do anything that you can't stop doing at will.  As long
> as this remains true, computers will remain toys.  A PeeCee only does
> one thing so if I want to use a modem I clearly am not doing anything 
> else.  One advantage of the Amiga is that I might have a multi-day
> weather simulation going on when my new high speed modem arrives.  
> If I wanted to wait 4 days before using it I would have bought 
> a PeeCee.  

The types of chips and protection provided for the ports on the Amiga
doesn't differ much from PC Clone practice.  There is some protection,
you can expect to get away with some abuse, but make a habit of it, or
live in a high-static environment or use some random arrangment of
powercords/3-way thingies instead of a power strip/center with a switch
and you will break something sooner or later.

> Sorry, I am not all that mad just curious as to why you are so
> emphatic that it is silly for me to want to swap cables while my
> computer is running??

Basically, the interface circuitry is not "bullet-proofed" to support
"hot insertion".  You subject little itty-bitty IC's with microns thick
insulating and conductive material to thousands of volts of static
discharge (low current) or 50-250 volts of ground potential difference
(2 wire plugs or reversed grounds, short - high current pulses), when
a signal pin makes contact before a properly grounded cable / connector
shell.

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: achim@video1.bs.open.de (Joachim Gothe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3640 in A3000 PROBLEM
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 22:50:57 GMT
Reply-To: achim@video1.bs.open.de  (Joachim Gothe)
 <35583@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Mix Broadcast Video and Computer
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1

In article <35583@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Dave Haynie writes:

[...] A3640 in A3000-Desktop

>>Now it runs with Disk BUT.....the A3000 can't find the SCSI-Drives.
>>HDtoolbox find them, can read the Drive-Type(Quantum LPS250) but after
>>the Reset, no HD appears.
>
>Could be that you need the jumper block as well, in U103.

SORRY, I just found U103. :-) What Jumperblock ??

I have U103. It is a 74F08PC-Chip.

I now have the Schematics #313311, Rev.D Sheet 3 of 18.

I am no Hardware-guy, but when I understand it in the right way,
U103 is a driver for the four clock-lines. (CPUCLKA, CPUCLKB, CLK30, CLK90)

With onboard-clock, the frequency come from U102 (Delayline) to the
Jumpers(J100, J102, J104) and then to U103.
With extern-clock, the frequency come from EXTCPU and EXT90. EXT90 goes
direct to U103 for CLK90. EXTCPU goes direct to U103 for CPUCLKA and
CPUCLKB and over J102 to U103 for CLK30.

Do I understand it right ??

Do I need a faster U103 ? The "F" in 74F08 is not for "fast".

Do I have to replace U103 with Jumpers? (Jumperblock) Witch Pins must I
connect? 2->3, 5->??, 10->??, 13->11  (?? is 6, 8 or 9..very little numbers)

I hope these where my last questions. :-)

Thanks,

Achim

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HOW to open an A500 POWER-SUPPLY
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:52:53 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <5821@tuegate.tue.nl> hennes@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann) writes:
> Carsten Rose (caro@uni-paderborn.de) wrote:
> : Jeroen van Wees (jhgwees@cs.ruu.nl) wrote:
> : : Hi there,
> : : 
> : : Has anyone ever tried an succeeded in opening an A500 power-supply?
> : : I'd like to open mine because it isn't function anymore, but I don't
> : : know how to.
> : Yes I opened two. The first one contains screws (no problem), but
> : the second one I had to damage the cover (no other possibilitie). The
> : points where you assume the screws could be only plastic (I don't
> : remember very well)
> : : There could be four screws at the bottom (at least there seem to be, but there
> : : covered by plastic), or is it just a squeeze-and-pull action ?
> 
> I only opened 1 powersupply (one of the old heavy ones).
> After forcing it open with a saw _Yes_ _Yes_ I know that thats rough I discovered
> that there 4 plastic pluggs that you could drill out and under which 4 screws apperead...

CSA (canadian) regulations require that power supplies of this class have
no "user servicable parts" i.e. user replaceable fuses, and that they are
permanently sealed.  While not all countries require this, the power supply
vendors prefer to make as few varients as possible...

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Where to Buy new Floppy Disk Drive
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:02:41 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <67096@cup.portal.com> M-Santi@cup.portal.com (Michael Mark Santiago) writes:
> I'm not sure about where to get the standard floppy drives but the
> high-density drives are out of the question at the moment. C= signed
> an exclusive arrangement with CHinon for those drives and has bought
> evry single one.  The only current way to get one is to purchase an
> A4000 or a 3000T.  That's a little bit more than $149....

This is not exactly correct.  Chinon developed the custom drives at our
request and when there is custom devopment work or tooling charges/NRE,
the vendor usually does not sell the custom drive on the open market
without the customers approval.

In the case of a 3-rd party wanting to sell expansion drives, Commodore
might or might not approve such a request, but for the individual, the
only recourse would be to get the drive as a service part.  At this point,
I am not sure if the the dual-density drive is readily available through
the service channel.

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:32:20 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <Bw4xw1.J3t@rice.edu>, kopnicky@owlnet.rice.edu (Lyle Warren Kopnicky) writes:
> I have a great idea for those who like to complain about lack of SCSI
> in the A4000, who currently are using 2000's.  Look.  Commodore is prob-
> ably going to have some sort of PowerUp program to the 4000.  Are they

	My dealer told me there will be no educational and power up deals
	from Commodore on the A4000, at least for many months. 

> going to care whether your 2000 has a hard drive in it or not?  Of course
> not.  So when you power up, put the 2000's SCSI card and drive into the
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Psssst.  The 2091 will not work in the A4000.

> A4000.  Now you can get 200MB+ of storage, IDE and SCSI!  Furthermore,
> put your RAM card into the 4000 and get a few extra megs of RAM!  Sure,
> it's quite slow RAM, but it beats running out of memory or paying for
> a 4MB SIMM (although they are getting pretty cheap).
> 
> +----------------------------Ren & Stimpy--------------------------------+
> | "Psst. Hey Guido. It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper of the   |
> | cheese. And you're the lemon merchant. Get it? And he knows it. That's |
> | why he's gonna kill us. So we gotta beat it. Yeah. Before he lets      |
> | loose the marmosets on us! Don't worry, little missy! I'll save you!"  |
> +--------------- Quantum Seep -- kopnicky@owlnet.rice.edu ---------------+
Fred Heitkamp,  ** Not an organization.  My opinions only **

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:18:31 GMT

In <Bw31A0.y9@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   But you get resolutions higher than 1024x768 (I forget the exact resolution)
>with 256 colors out of 16M, and resolutions higher than 800x600 with full
>24-bit TrueColor.  How much would it costs to upgrade an A4000 to these kinds
>of resolutions?  Quite a lot more than $1000.  Probably more like $2500.

About $400.

>   The A2024 monitor sucks anymore.  1008x800 is not all that high of a 
>resolution, and it is strictly monochrome.  Besides, the A2024 still costs
>the Earth.

It does 1024x1024 and costs about $200.

Regards,
-- 
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