HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: IBM High Density Drive in an amiga
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

I realize that the commodore high density drive is different
than an ibm high density drive, but what I want to do it different.
I want to read msdos formatted disks with crossdos and not amigaDOS
high denities--only msdos.  Is it possible to hook up the drive for
this capability?


Pete
pruttman@carroll1.cc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager)
Subject: Re: Bad exp. with GRAPEVINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: orst
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:17:38 GMT

evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (M.BiSON) writes:

>In <1992Oct8.192544.11504@rhrk.uni-kl.de> ph11mlar@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Arthur Recktenwald) writes:

>>I will never order anything from Grapevine.

>Just to put in a good word for them, I ordered a super denise
>from them second day air, and it arrived on time...no probs at all.

>/X\BiSON

Ok, so what we can conclude from your post is that they're erratic at best.
Warms my heart to hear that... 1/2 :-)

BTW, some friends of mine ordered a 1 Meg Agnes from them for my birthday,
a few days before the fateful day.  It was 1.5 weeks late.  Needless to
say, I had a very glum birthday... :-)
-Mike
 schwager@cs.uiuc.edu
Fish Archive Spots: (updated 9/29/92)
128.174.5.59    ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (disks 001-730 and counting.. GO, Fred, GO!)
     Maintained by Mike Schwager (schwager@cs.uiuc.edu)
128.255.19.233 grind.isca.uiowa.edu  has FF #1-current
     Maintained by Michael T. Pins (amigapd@isca.uiowa.edu)
128.171.44.7 ftp.hawaii.edu (mirror of ux1: disks 001-current)
	Maintained by amiga@ftp.hawaii.edu (Baron) 
	The disks on ux1 say: "...I want to be a Fish Disk in Hawaii!" :-)
16.1.0.2 gatekeeper.dec.com has FF #1-600 or so in /pub/micro/amiga/fish
     Maintained by vixie@pa.dec.com   ... does not appear to be current
128.252.135.4 wuarchive.wustl.edu  has the newest in systems/amiga/fish/fish
     (Woah!  Now lots of disks at one of America's premier ftp sites!)
IN AUSTRALIA:
139.130.4.6     archie.au
     a mirror of wuarchive.wustl.edu?  Maintained by ???
IN EUROPE:
128.214.6.100 ftp.funet.fi  carries all Fish disks in /pub/amiga/fish.
     Maintained by Pertti Lehtinen <pl@ftp.funet.fi> and
                   Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@ftp.funet.fi>
137.226.4.105 ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de
     /pub/amiga/fish/f?         Disks 600+
     /pub/amiga/fish/olddisks   Disks 1-600 (mounted from CDROM)
     Maintained by Stefan Becker
     <stefanb@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
From: kopnicky@owlnet.rice.edu (Lyle Warren Kopnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Needs of future 4000's
Keywords: 4000, color, future
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:26:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: rice.Bw4x4E.Iu6
Organization: Rice University

Well, thank you, Mr. Sinz.  You have given us what we wanted most in a new
machine.  Now it is already time to tell you what we want next!  :)
Here's the list of future improvements that need to be made, (1) being
most important.

1) True IDE driver (not SCSI emulation) for much faster HD access.
2) A model with a bigger hard drive (240 MB).
3) More CHIP RAM (4 or 8 MB).  Notice that the biggest screen you can
   display without overscan takes up over 600K.  This is 30% of the total
   chip RAM available.  On the 2000 the biggest is around 256K, being
   25%, and on the 3000 with 2MB Chip RAM it's only 12.5%.  Thus it looks
   like a little more Chip RAM would be in order.
4) A faster blitter.  The double-buffering is to be commended, but the
   CPU is pretty much needed to move the graphics, since it is much
   faster than the blitter at the moment at doing so.
5) A 16-bit sound chip.  DSP would be nice.
6) Bigger resolutions.  800x600 and 1024x768 non-interlaced, requiring
   faster pixel display, of course.  Also 1280x400 non-interlaced.
7) Full 24-bit color.  The least important thing of all.

-- 
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| 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      |
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From: morel@di.epfl.ch (Philippe Morel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A4000 Problems !
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:36:53 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


I've had my A4000 for a week now. I have noticed some aberrations.
Commodore says that the promotion feature works properly. What about the
boot menu ?..

I tried to install my Syquest in the front drive bay. No luck. The diameter
of the holes are too small for the screws and there is not enough place to put
the drive (not deep enough).

Another comment: Why didn't Commodore use a low profile floppy disk ? I
must buy two of them if I want two floppy-disks and throw one away.

Philippe Morel			email: morel@di.epfl.ch
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk(G. Coulter)
Subject: Unparked H/Drive!
Reply-To: g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:10:10 GMT

Keywords:
5 years ago I purchased an A2000 1.2 machine with a
20Mb Western Digital hard drive (Janus Handler) now
when I origionaly bought the machine I got the set
up software for it but no utility to park the drive.

Does anyone out there know if the drive parks on its
own when the machine is turned off. If the drive does
not park on its own does anyone know of program or
utility that will park the drive (jH0).

The machine has not been moved since I bought it 5
years ago, but now I am moving to a new house about
200 Miles away and would like to know how safe it is
to move the machine. And any precautions I should take
whilst transporting the machine.

Thanks .....


     (*) 
      \    __
   AMIGA  ///  Gary Coulter
     __ \///   SERC Daresbury Laboratory
     \\\/X/(*)       
      \X//\/   G.Coulter@Daresbury.ac.uk
From: Anders_Lattermann@p24.f231.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Anders Lattermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Photo-CD on Amiga/CDTV
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:20:19 GMT
Reply-To: Anders_Lattermann@p24.f231.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Anders Lattermann)
Organization: PointBreak, Kallhall, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Bob_Campbell

In a message of < 5-Oct-92 21:02> Bob Campbell (92:901/1992) wrote:

 BC> A guy asked that question at the Keynote presentation given by the
 BC> Pres of C=. The big cheese said that no, it doesn't handle that
 BC> format, and didn't really think it was a profitable venture to make
 BC> the CDTV to be able to, since he doesn't think those CD Cameras by
 BC> Kodak were selling well enough.

 BC> ie: The markets too small for the upgrade to be profitable.

Here in sweden, Kodak has just released the Photo-CD. Development of a film (
normal 35 mm) and transfer of the pictures to the CD costs only twice as much 
as a normal film development. I say, that would be a good way to get your own 
pictures in to the Amiga for further manupilating and for putting slideshows 
with Scala or AmigaVision together.

The Photo-CD player from Kodak is not so expensive (about 2/3 of the CDTV) but 
has some great disatvantages. It only has composite video output, no RGB. The 
Photo-CD format stores the pictures in 5 different resolutions. On the 
standard player you only get the mid resolution out of it, which is about the 
quality of an Super-VGA. The last bad thing, the machine only has IR-remote 
controll, no serial port. 

For Mac and PC, Kodak has developed software that reads the highest resolution 
(or which one you'd like) into the machine from a normal CD-ROM drive. As 
often the other two computer systems has it, and we don't. 

Conclusion: We need (and want) a fix from C= to get this! 

/Anders Lattermann

FidoNet: 2:201/411.24
InterNet: Anders_Lattermann@p24.f231.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se

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From: colx0035@steer.sdsu.edu (1 Big Violent Chink!)
Subject: Help w/ IVS Trumpcard Slots
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:07:43 GMT


Hello! Help! Help! Anybody?

   I have a A500 with the IVS Trumpcard HD Controller (the original, ugly box)
and was wondering if anyone know if the SLOTs are ZORRO II compatible?? If so,
has Anyone plug any of the A2000 Zorro II card into this slot yet?  And what is
the result??  
   I know that the slot was intended for the IVS META4 RAM card, but I was 
wondering if anything else can be pluged into this slot...such as an internal
modem.....other memory bord....or...whatever the ZORRO II slots are for???

Gracias...
!OK!

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From: griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:15:28 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:

>call the machine useless.  In fact, if it were, most of the computers in
>the world (IBM-PCs, 97.4% of them) would be useless too.

Yeah, so what's your point?  :D
-- 
Dan Griffin                    "You stand there with your fixed expression, 
griffin@egr.msu.edu             casting doubt on all I have to say..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: ROMs for GVP Impact/SCSI-RAM board
From: nschultz@zeus.calpoly.edu (Ned Schultz)
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 22:39:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


First of all, thanks to all those who replied to my earlier post about
getting version 3.X GVP ROMs.  Based on some of the replies, I gather
that some GVP controllers have only 1 ROM chip.  I have one of the
early (1988) Impact SCSI/RAM boards.  These contain two ROM chips,
marked "odd" and "even".  Mine are also marked as version 1.0.

Does anyone know if there is a set of 3.X chips available for this
controller?  I need 3.X to be able to use the controller with Amax+.
If you know the highest revision of the chips that were released
for this controller, please email me.  Apparently GVP stopped using
and revising the odd and even chips at some point.  And if you happen
to have a set of 3.X odd and even chips available, please let me
know.  Thanks...

Ned Schultz
nschultz@nike.calpoly.edu
From: gkropf@bfield.uucp (Gary Kropf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help me buy a printer for my A500+
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:40:22 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

> CS90) writes:
>>      Having read a number of `best buy'-type articles in the UK magazines,
>> the two which seem to regularly come out top are the Canon Bubblejet BJ10ex,
>> and the Panasonic KXP1124i.
>
>Add the Epson LQ570.
>
>The BubbleJet looks pretty flimsy to me. In contrast, the Panasonic 1124i
>and the Epson LQ570 are built like tanks. There is a replacement LQ driver
>fro the 570 that gets MUCH better output on it than anything else I've seen,
>and the font capabilities are excellent.
>
>It might be for sale under the name "Action Printer 5000". It costs a little
>less than the 1124i in the states.
>
>I'm totally happy with mine.
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   "Heeft u vandaag al uw wolf geknuffeld?"
>  'U`  
I agree, I am totally happy with mine also...

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                 *         Gary Kropf  C/O BakersField BBS    *
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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:23:26 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Oct7.194433.7333@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   I am actively advising people to ignore the A4000, purchase A3000s instead,
>and upgrade them later with third-party video cards as soon as DIG is
>available.

You used to advise people to keep their A2000s and upgrade them, rather than
buy the A3000 which provided few improvements.  No one listened to you back
then either.  Apparently, even you didn't, since now you're recommending A3000s.

I can recommend either machine.  I guess people will have to decide who they 
trust.  I'm going to upgrade to an A4000 class machine at home as soon as I can
spare a little downtime, while I still have my A2500 class machine here at 
work.  I wouldn't insult anyone's intelligence by expecting them to buy either
system without giving them a full workout -- not every Amiga is going to meet
everyone's needs.  Some folks still buy A2000s.
-- 
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
              "I got a pocket full of kryptonite" -Spin Doctors
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jma1128@summa.tamu.edu (Jason)
Subject: Denise Chip
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:13:00 GMT

Greetings. I have had an Amiga 2000HD for the past couple of years now, and
feel the need to upgrade it. My question is probably simple for most, but
not knowing that much about it's motherboard, I have no clue. I use the machine
alot for word processing, digitizing, and CAD. I have the standard Denise chip
in the computer and was wondering if it was beneficial to upgrade it to the 
8373 Super Denise Chip. Your comments would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason Adams
JMA1128@Zeus.TAMU.Edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Bewildered One)
Subject: Re: A4000 Processor
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:57:12 GMT

kkrebs@amilink.UUCP (Ken Krebs) writes:

>In article <jorngh.35.718830930@dhhalden.no> jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN) writes:
>> In article <19.2ad76157@ivgate> John.Haubrich@mtask.omahug.org (John Haubrich) writes:
>> >Someone stated recently that the A4000
>> >had a 68EC040 processor (without MMU or FPU).  Is this true?
>> 
>> NO NO NO !!!
>> 
>> As stated before, the A4000 has a full blown 040 ... who are spreading 
>> rumours anyway ???
>> 
>> *JORN* (email : jorngh@sofus.dhhalden.no)

>It could be coming from the A4000's manual where it shows you how to
>upgrade your 68EC040 processor to a full 68040.  Of course, the machine
>ships with a full 68040...  Does this hint at different models...?

Please no non mmu cpus.  I don't want any excuse for a hampered new os
for not having an mmu.  The biggest need of the amiga is resource tracking or
at minimum a good job control.  It is very necessary for a Amiga*IX, i would
realy like to just take a new unix shell like tcsh source and type make
and not have probs.  Goes the same with an X server on the amiga OS.

Martin
From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 Hardware questions
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:21:09 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <1992Oct15.160250.7831@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
>In article <23625@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
[...]
>I have to disagree with you on this.  I'm sitting here looking at several
>types of bi-directional buffers right now, and none of them are all that
>expensive -- and that's retail.  At the OEM level they would be very cheap.
>I'm talking 2.00 US for off the shelf, two to a pack.  Compared to around
>20.00 US for a CIA, that's not too bad.  Not to mention that it is available
>at most electrinic supply houses, while the CIA is limited in availability.

Interesting.  To tell the truth, I have not investigate bidirectional
buffers thoroughly.  Are you sure these are what I meant by "bidirectional"?
I don't mean back-to-back buffers that are switched by a direction signal.
These are inexpensive.  I mean a true isolation buffer that supports
bidirectional signals without an external direction control.

[...]
>Interesting... if the serial port is uni-directional, how do we manage to
>send/receive data via a modem?  Still, I daresay that RS232 buffers are a
>fair sight cheaper than a single CIA.

Don't be be silly.  I said each "signal" is unidirectional, not port.  A
serial port is bidirectional.  Each individual signal (RX, TX, what have
you) is unidirectional at all times, according to the RS232 standard.
This is not true for the parallel port where each signal can switch
directions when operating.

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The crew faces deadly GURUs!  Next time on AmigaDOS: The Next Generation.
	+--------+			John Lee
	| HUGHES |
	+--------+			Internet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com	
The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
Subject: ROMswitching 1.3/2.0 & AutoBooting PROBLEMS!
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Keywords: ROMswitcher,DataFlyer,AutoBooting
Reply-To: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:29:36 GMT

    I have been trying to set up my Amiga 500 system to automagically
handle both of the KS ROMs.  I have one of those ROM switchers (manual
version) to select between 1.3 or 2.0.  I have a Data Flyer 500 SCSI
controller and Quantum 52LPS harddrive which worked fine for WorkBench
1.3 and still does for 2.04.

    The Problem: When I have the 1.3 ROM selected and I reboot,
Startup-Sequence halts.  I have tried a variety of approaches and tests
and have discovered the following:

        1) If my Startup-Sequence starts off with "c:setpatch >nil:", it
           will return a msg about needing a 2.0+ ROM, etc. settng the
           status at 20 and exiting the script.  To get around this, I
           have tried to put the command "Failat 21" before the call to
           setpatch but it appears that at this point the computer does
           not know what the failat command is so it aborts the script
           at that line...

        2) I have also tried using a program just recently posted to
           USENET called OldExecWarn which sets the status to 5 (instead
           of a higher, fatal value) the status. If I then follow with a
           conditional test, i.e. 

                if warn then
                    ... change system envirnoment variables 
                    ... to point to the WB-1.3 OS partition (DH1:)
                    ... instead of the WB-2.04 OS partition (DH0:)
                    Execute S:Startup-Sequence
                    quit
                endif

    This fails to work because the computer does not know what the
command "if" means and it aborts the script...

    When I redefine the System Environment Variables to point to the 1.3
partition and execute the startup-sequence by hand, my AmigaDOS v1.3 is
up and running.  This gives me confidence that WB-1.3 will work as well
as WB-2.04.

    Please e-mail any comments, suggestions, or SOLUTIONS! to me and I
will summarize them to the group later if I sense any other interest.

    A note should be made that the Data Flyer controler system does not
use the AmigaDOS Rigid Disk Block (RDB) but one is currently "in the
mail" to me from Expansion Systems.  I'm not sure how the lack of a RDB
will effect the above situation.

Thanks!
rick
From: aces@mcode.amdahl.com (Jeffrey D. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 or Zeus???
Keywords: A4000,Zeus,PP&S
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:51:30 GMT
Reply-To: jds30@amail.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale Ca.

In article <1992Oct7.022706.2466@sol.cs.wmich.edu>, 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin E. Black) writes:
> sh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Stephen Harvey) writes:
> 
> >	At the moment I have a PP&S `040 board and was intending to upgrade to
> >a 33Mhz Zeus, then the A4000 turns up...
> >	What do all you gurus suggest - Should I wait for the A4000 or go for
> >the Zeus??? What ARE the real A4000 specs?? I certainly can`t decide
> >until I find out what the options are. Upgrading to a Zeus will cost me
> >$1400 trading in my current board. How much will it cost to get an A4000?
> 
> You are going to spend $1400 for a 30% speed increase.  Wow aren't you 
> demanding.  I didn't even spend an extra $800 to get an 040 instead of my
> 030 25mhz.
> 
> But to your question would you need an a4000.  Well it is only 25mhz right now.
> And since you already have that....
Point of info: A 25Mhz 68040 has internal timing equivalent to
a 50Mhz 68030.  That's because the '030 clock is halved; the
'040 clock signal is used as is. So, all else being equal (which
it isn't) a 25Mhz '040 is twice as fast as the 25Mhz '030.  Comparing
clock speeds is relevant only for the same model CPU.  Otherwise,
you have to consider cache configurations, bus bandwidth, etc.

As for whether to get the A4000:  I suggest waiting a few months for
the bugs to shake out.  The current street price is around $2800US.
I remember A2000 '040 cards selling for that much not too long ago. 
That price gets you the '040 and the new AGA chipset, 24-bit color, wow.

Think practical, not emotional.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI terminators location on Quantam 105s.
Date: 06 Oct 92  14:51:34 GMT

[04-Oct-92] Jeff Coleman (2:245/41.100) wrote:
 JC> I'd like some indication where abouts on the circuit board on the back
 JC> of the drive case do the terminators go...and what do they look like.
 JC> ps.. would the 120lps have the same type + the same location.
Hi, I also have the Q-LPS105S and can show you the locations of the
Terminators on this drive. I would think that it is the same on the LPS120S
but if not you should be able to find them if you know how they look like.
Q-LPS105S/52S
 +------------------------------------------+   S
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 |                                        * |-  S
 |                                        * |-  I
 |                                        * |-  -
 | Bottom                                 * |-  C
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 |                                          |   n
 |                                          |   n
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 +------------------------------------------+
# = SCSI Address Jumpers
* = Terminators
The terminators are just a normal resistor array - just a small black longish
thing with one row of legs on one side; perhaps just like a normal IC
chopped in half and a bit thinner...
Bye, Colin Hirsch, Germany
**          Colin Hirsch
            UUCP: colin@netgate.fido.de
            fido:   2:245/41.9
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