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From: 9122069g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Tri Darkstar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP-II & A2090
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:51:51 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Is it possible to use a GVP-II and a the Hard disk controller A2090, at
the same time.  I have a 20meg HD using the A2090, a was think about
buying a GVP-II with another HD and memory.  Can I do it??

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jsurace@cco.caltech.edu (Jason A. Surace)
Subject: Quantum 105LPS scsi jumpers
Summary: How do I set the jumpers?
Keywords: drive quantum
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:46:08 GMT


I just bought a quantum 105lps which will be the second hard drive in my
A3000. It didn't come with any instructions. What I want to know is,

1)Which jumpers set the scsi id#? Also, there are two sets of three jumpers each. What do all the jumpers do?

2)Do I remove the old drive's terminators and leave them in the new drive?
I assume the terminators are the black, vertical plug-in packages directly
behind the interface socket. (like lots of resistors stood on end and coated
with epoxy).


                                          - Jason Surace
                                        jason@ipac.caltech.edu
                                        jsurace@cco.caltech.edu
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Did you ever buy anything at...
Date: 8 Sep 92 10:10:01 GMT
Organization: City University, London

Could American readers who have bought by mail order please
recommend a good place (which ships to the UK). I have a copy
of AmigaWorld with many ads, but which one to approach?
Presumably ones on the East coast would be closer and better
for shipping?


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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: aga in 500/2000/3000?
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:36:17 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <35077@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
>
>The AA (or AGA as it is now known) chip set 
            ^^^
A little remark here: Perhaps Germany can't follow this renaming. Because
AGA is already occupied here by, guess who?: yes, Commodore. We had an
AGA card (Advanced Graphics Adapter) in our stoneage (and also not so very
old, say 2 years ago) versions of MS-DOS PCs. Many people here *still* 
know about this device, and it sported such amazing features like CGA and 
Hercules on one board, wow! Obviously we should not try to make people 
confuse the AA chips with that old board. *Nobody* here knew about that 
name change in advance, it's really amazing.

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Back from vacation, anything happened?
From: shane@peeker.uucp (Shane R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 030 Combo, BB help needed
Date: 12 Sep 1992 09:10:03 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith


   Reading the GVP 33MHZ Combo manual, it says I can place my 4 meg of 32
bit ram as extended memory.  This way my Microbotics 8up board with 4 meg
of ram and my AT bridgboard will not violate the 8meg limit.
   The only way the BB will operate is by removing 2 megs from the 8up
ram board giving me a total of 6megs and the BB.  Is it possible to have
4megs(32bit) of ram extended, 4 meg(16bit) on the 8up board and an AT BB to
work together.  The GVP manual says I should be able to, so what am I doing
wrong.  

-- 
Shane McCarthy                  Please forward mail to
Windsor, Ont.                   cs.uwindsor.ca!jabba!peeker!shane
From: tommy@weird.miami.fl.us (Tom Bonge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A-max and HD Floppy
Date: 6 Sep 92 14:07:36 EDT
Organization: Weird BBS [Amiga] (305)553-3207 S. Miami, FL USA

I am considering getting an A-max II plus, but I have some questions, If anyone knows the answers, please help.
 
I have a GVP 030 combo 40 MHz.  I heard that A-max wont work with a 030 without an MMU?  Is this true?  If so do I have to get a new 030?
 
I also heard that A-max II plus can read High Density MAC disks, if you have an HD floppy.  Where can I get an HD floppy, I have been looking and calling every where and everyone says there is no such thing or its not out yet, but a friend of mine has one on his A3000.

--- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)
From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: What about an A3000+ or A3500?
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:51:00
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Distribution: comp
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In-reply-to: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu's message of 14 Sep 92 21:25:07 EDT

y>>>>> On 14 Sep 92 21:25:07 EDT, kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu said:

kzyx> What about a redesigned A3000 motherboard?

kzyx> We could call it an A3000+ or A3500. The "dream" specs would be:

kzyx> * 68030/68882 at 50MHz

kzyx> * AGA chip set

kzyx> * SCSI-II on board

kzyx> * Same memory technology (ZIPs)

kzyx> * New DSP chip (replacing Paula)

kzyx> * OS3.0

kzyx> * Same footprint a A3000 motherboard for direct replacement.

kzyx> I would upgrade my trustworthy A3000.

So its the case and power cord with which you REALLY can't bring
yourself to part.  (OK the drives are worth a couple of hundred ($450)
and the power supply is worth $50)

The above would cost more than a 4000 (DSP and SCSI) and would flow
against the modularity tendency.  You just may be able to get a DSP
board for your Amiga 3000 that you can use in your future A5000.
(Well with the AD516 (?) baord you can)

If you NEED SCSI-II then it two sound be available from C= soon.


-- Andrew Hansford
   ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: The HD LED on the front of the A2000.
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:55:23 GMT
Organization: LLNL_LIS

Hello,
  This past weekend I installed a second Hard Drive to my 2090 controller.  The
first HD is an ST506 (I believe I got that right) drive, and my new HD is 
SCSI.  Anyway, when I tested out my SCSI drive, I disconnect my old HD first.  
Then the LED on the front of my A2000 lit up all the time, even when I wasn't 
accessing the HD.  Then after I tested out the new drive, I hooked-up my old 
drive to the 2090 as well as the new drive.  Now my LED only comes on when I'm
accessing the ST506 drive.  It won't come on at all when I'm accessing
the SCSI drive.  My LED is connected to the controller, so I would think that
it would come on when any of the HD's were being used.  When my old drive was
the only HD hooked-up to my controller, the LED came on when it was supposed to
and went off when it was supposed to.  Also to top everything off, 
now when I reboot, I don't always completely boot-up.  Sometimes I just
get a blank (white or light grayish) screen.  If I shut the Amiga down, and
power it back up, it boots fine.

So my questions are:

  A)  Why did the LED stay on all the time, when the SCSI drive was the only 
      HD connected?

  B)  Why won't the LED come on at all when I'm accessing the SCSI drive, with
      both types of drives hooked-up.  Yet it does come on for the older drive?

  C)  Why can't I reboot properly?

  D)  Can I mix different HDs on the 2090, or do they ALL have to be SCSI, or
      do they ALL (2 of them) be ST506?

The LED may be a simple point, but the new drive is real silent and I can't
tell when it's being accessed.  My old drive sounds like an airplane taking
off, so there's no doubt when it's being used.  If worse came to worse, I'd
rather have the LED work with the new HD and not with the old one.  Not the
other way around.

Also, when I become rich & famous I'd like to buy a better HD controller for my
A2000.  Do most other controllers (like GVP, etc.) allow you to format the
first partition under FFS?  I presume this is just some strange joke from C=
when they designed the 2090 & 2090A to have their first partition formatted
under OFS.

Any info would help!

Thanks,
Joe
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From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A4000 -- _EC_ 040?!
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:25:00 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

I've heard that the 4000 comes with an _EC_ 040 chip in it.

Someone (in a position to do it) please deny this.  Not having an MMU or an
_FPU_ in the 4000 would be - bad.

The fact that (if this is true) this is being glossed over in all the
release information, also does not bode well.

So, if you know _for_sure_ (pplz from Commodore?), tell us so... 

	...So I can worry about other things :)

	-steve


.............................................................................
          tredysvr!cellar!swinokur -or- swinokur@cellar.uucp -or-
                          GEnie: S.WINOKUR  -or-
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From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Need help getting A2090 controller working with Miniscribe 8425S!!!
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:18:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: LLNL_LIS

In article <AQDCr*DW0@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> In article <1992Sep2.012016.17850@lonex.rl.af.mil>, Michael A. Kopack writes:
> 
>> 
>> Please help me before I murder this A2000!!
>> 
>> I just got this A2090 card to control an old hard drive I picked up a while
>> back. It's a MiniScribe 8425S 20 Megger. When I got the A2090, it didn't
>> have any install disk...

[stuff deleted]

>> ...What the frick am I doing wrong????
> 
> I never tried "install."  I just put hddisk and hddisk.info in the Expansion
> drawer, set up the MountList, and rebooted.  Then I ran prep.  Remember that 
> the  RES number is 1 (one) less than the "unit" in the MountList.

Install simply puts hddisk#? into the Expansion drawer, Prep into the C
directory, and the Mountlist in the Devs directory.

The 1st partition of the 1st SCSI device must be called DH2:.  You don't need a
mountlist entry for this first partition.  Anything after that you do, however. 
All of the info for DH2: is loaded when you run prep DH2:.  Reboot the machine,
and format your drive as normal.

Joe
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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:47:19 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep14.133627.21236@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:

>I think most users *want* more than 8-bit sound.  

I'm not sure most users would know the difference...

>Look at the way sound cards sell on I*m's! 

Yup, zillions of SoundBlasters, 8-bit cards with one DMA channel and a mess of
programmable envelope generators (ala the C64's SID chip).  I don't know how
many real 16-bit sound cards sell, but I wouldn't be suprised if, rounded to
the nearest percentage point, it was 0% of the total of sound cards.  Even 
the MPC only calls for 8-bit sound.

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Cool Advanced High-End Systems You Can't See Yet)
 "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: hazy
             "We're not hitchhiking anymore, we're riding" -Ren Hoek
From: simms@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Christian R. Simms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Using ImageWriter II with Amiga 2000HD
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:26:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I may be asking in the wrong place, but I have an ImageWriter II and I want to
connect it to my Amiga 2000HD, how do I physically connect it to the Amiga?
The ImageWriter only has a small circular hole.

Thank you,
Chris  (simms@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)
From: bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem resets Amiga when shut off.
Date: 7 Sep 92 04:21:36 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <Boinger.02t0@myamy.hacktic.nl> boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
>In article <Zapper.0k8m@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper) writes:
>>   This isn't really a major problem, just a minor annoyance...
>> 
>>   Whenever I power cycle my modem, my Amiga (500) reboots. This is mildly
>> annoying because I don't need to leave my modem on all the time, but I have
>> to or else reboot.
>
>Hmm. No such problems with my A2000 and SupraFaxModem. Hold on,

This is scary.  The CPU reset line is present on the Amiga serial port,
isn't it?  This is a 5V logic signal which should never be connected to
an RS-232 level signal.  If the cable being used connects the reset line
of the computer to the modem...  ugh.  I don't wanna think about this.
Check the cable!

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From: jvl@redorc.chi.il.us (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 38,400 Telebit Qblazer Modem ($299.00)
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:50:47 CDT
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

NO, i don't think so! Ask anyone, this will be my third modem in 3 months
(again my speaker has quit) it is not so much that it won't connect, but the
speaker shouldn't burn out every 2 weeks. Come on. 

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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:19:01 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green) writes:
- 
- 68060 ?  What ever happened to the 68050 ????
- 

Here is one explanation I've heard, it may be right:

It was cancelled due to political reasons. People have always
compared Motorola and Intel processors, and they have had one
digit in common most of the time on processors of similar power.

80186 - 68010
80286 - 68020
80386 - 68030
80486 - 68040

The comparable processors has come out not so far from each other
(in time), but it seems like Motorola will have it's processor ready
much later than the Intel 80586/P5. It's then better to call it a
68060, they think. It may also be much more powerful than the P5.

I beleive they always work on at least two processor designs in 
parallell, since it takes a long time to complete a processor.
Maybe the 68050 design went into a dead end and it was cancelled, and
the 68060 stayed with it's name.

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From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: DSP on Optional Card (was Re: 4000)
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:43:02
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
	<1992Sep13.043008.25454@news.iastate.edu>
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In-reply-to: barrett@iastate.edu's message of Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT

>>>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) said:

barrett> In article <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran) writes:

barrett> The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card
barrett> instead of making it standard hardware on at least one system
barrett> is software.  There already is at leastone third-party Zorro
barrett> II card available which uses the same DSP that Commodore will
barrett> be using, but how much software is available for it?  The
barrett> Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one
barrett> from the third- party company, but not much better.  After
barrett> about a year, I will be amazed if the installed base of
barrett> Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what it would have
barrett> been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in
barrett> at least one system.

barrett> ---
barrett> | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
barrett> --------------------------------------------------

That is a bit of a truism is it not.  Certainly if all Amigas came
with a DSP then there would be more DSPs out there than if the Amiga
came without.  I prefer the modular approach so people can buy a DSP
when the can afford one and take it to the next motherboard when its
out.  

As for software, who know how many programs would have used a DSP.  If
Commodore offers standard OS support or libraries for it then that may
encourage people to buy it.

-- Andrew Hansford
   ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:59:42 GMT

In <1992Sep14.133832.21463@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:

>What about the home/small business segment.  Do they have to buy IBMs? :)

The home/small business people buying IBMs and SoundBlasters are stuck
with limited 8bit sound.

Regards,
-- 
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From: CFL@buc.edu.au (Colin Linahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Action Replay 3 and 2.04 INCOMBATIBLE?!?!?!
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:25:34 GMT
Organization: Ballarat University College
NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.132.52.10


Can you switch between ROMS while the machine is on? I was warned not to do 
this.
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From: gorton@tiger1.prime.com (Scott Gorton)
Subject: Re: Supra FAXmodem problems
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:52:34 GMT

> Does anyone have some good advice for this little monstrosity?  Decent
> command settings or ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Check out the speed your terminal emulator is talking to the modem at.  My system would lock up fairly regularly at 57.6K.  I've backed it down to 19.2K and have had very few problems.   

Scott <Gorton@s35.prime.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:50:39 GMT

don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>     You mean the one that's already been advertised for $2900 several
>places?  That's hardly shelling out almost 4 grand.

Wherezat?

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From: erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Powerglove : karazm.math.uh.edu does not answer
Distribution: world
Date: 6 Sep 92 01:39:59 EDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <fischers.715633119@hphalle4> fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer) writes:
>hi there! I read in Mondo 2000 that mailing to request@karazm.math.uh.edu would
>provide me with info and software on how to connect the Nintendo Powerglove to
>the amiga. As karazm... does not respond : Can somebody mail me how to connect
>it to the Serial port? 

Try this...  (from a posting in sci.virtual-worlds)

---
To subscribe to the power-glove mailing list:

Send a message to listserv@win30.nas.nasa.gov with a *body* of

        subscribe glove-list your_full_name

Please note that the software will subscribe you based on the address
your email comes from, not the string your_full_name.  This is a bug,
I know.  I'm hoping for a new version of the sw any decade now... :-)

The ftp site is still karazm.math.uh.edu as NASA does not allow
anonymous FTP.

---

Eric Townsend changed jobs and moved between the time the article was
written and the article was published.  Because MONDO 2000 is only
pubished a few times a year, the lead time on it is enormous.  The above
information has been forwarded to one of the editors at MONDO 2000 for
inclusion in the next issue.

Sorry about the mixup.

-ethan

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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: VXL-30 ramboard
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 92 05:34:10 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep8.220448.6654@coe.montana.edu>

Well, the 25 Mhz comes in both EC and regular versions.  The 40 Mhz
is the EC, and the 50 Mhz is the regular 68030.  Just for information
sake, the 40 Mhz EC version with 2 Mbs of memory and a 68882 is over
200 times faster than a stock system when floating point is involved.
Another point about the VXL-30, Microbotics does use the rated chips
for the accelerator, if you get a 50 Mhz VXL-30, you get a 50 Mhz 68030.
The 32 bit memory does work with DMA(people have said that the MMR 
does not) and the 68000 can access it.  
My 40 Mhz VXL rates at 3.2 times an A3000-25 mhz.
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