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From: watters@cranel.com (David Watters)
Subject: Re: Can a 3.5" HD connect to 2.5" A1200?
Organization: Cranel, Incorporated, Worthington Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:44:28 GMT

In article <1992Nov03.130848.17288@zds-oem.zds.com> easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
>In article <36582@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

>>It's the same, but our experience is that you can't expect two drives
>>from different manufacturers to actually work master/slave.  In any case,
>>the casework only makes provision for one drive, so we don't officially
>>support master/slave in the A600/A1200, though the software will give it
>>a go...

>  Heh!  I forgot to mention that.  We've been on a campaign lately to
>ship only ATA compliant drives, thus insuring that they will work
>with each other.  However, were finding out that the few drives that 
>claim ATA compatibility arent all that compatible.  Our drive evaluation
>guys made up a huge chart showing which drives work with each other.
>Looking at the chart shows just what a mess the IDE drive industry is 
>in...  :-)

With all these _large_ limitations that IDE presents, I am even more 
dumbfounded by the lack of SCSI in the A4000 and inclusion of IDE.
I would assume that the minimum set up for such a multimedia machine
would be a HD and a CDrom.  Will the A4000's IDE controller allow that
setup?
For me, a _minimal_  animation setup will be 1 HD, a 1/4" tape drive, possibly
a Magneto optical, and a CDrom for texture disks.  Will the A4000's 
controller let me do this?

I am not trying to be a smart ass, and I am certainly not trying to be
a Marc Farret, but I am just lost for any reasoning.  I think the IDE
in the A600/A1200 is fine, and certainly a neat solution with it all
being internal, but a machine on the same level as the A4000 should have
had a SCSI controller if not SCSI-II (Fast).

Sorry for wasting bandwidth.

-- 
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Voice: (614) 433-0045      Callsign:            510F E Wilson Bridge Rd 
FAX:   (614) 433-0073        "The Weasel!"      Worthington, Ohio 43085
From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000,1.3,2.0 HELP!!!
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:12:45 GMT
Reply-To: Kent.Dalton@FtCollinsCO.NCR.com
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: Mike_Noreen@arkham.bbs.bad.se's message of 9 Nov 92 19:42:43 GMT

>>>>> Mike_Noreen@arkham.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen) said:

Mike> You can indeed load kickstart 1.3 even on a A3000 with kickstart
Mike> 2.04 in ROM.  It is not entirely trivial, though.

Mike> First: Use the MakeFiles command you can find on your install disk
Mike> to create a kickstart 1.3 kickfile from your kickstartdisk.

Mike> Second: Get hold of hte command SetCPU (that is the nontrivial
Mike> bit! ;-)), and use its kickrom-option to load the kickstartfile.

Also, in order to get kick 1.3 to load workbench and execute the
startup-sequence, etc, off of a hard disk, you might have to name one of your
partitions WB_1.3: (I'm certain this is the way it works for machines
like mine which have the old softkick/superkickstart ROMs, a major
feature IMHO, hope C= releases new revs on disk as well as ROM)

By the way, does anybody know if I can rename an HD partition without
losing the data on it (or other partitions of the same disk for that
matter)? The HDToolBox information in the 2.04 manual seems to imply
that I can't.

I have a half-full partition I wouldn't mind setting up for a 1.3 boot
partition (for some old games compatibility), if I could do it without
trashing the data already on the disk.
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Interfacing to A500+
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:36:10 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <6161@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> colej@essex.ac.uk (Cole J L) writes:
> I'm trying to interface a TMS34010 graphics chip to an A500+.
> 
> My problem is the /DTACK line.  How soon after a valid address is issued
> does gary assert DTACK? Or does it? If it doesn't surely the machine would
> hang until it is asserted.
> 
> Also, the 34010 has a ready signal.  I was thinking of multiplexing this
> signal with d0.  Thus using A1&A2 to select the 34010 register & A3 to
> select the ready signal or the actual d0 from the 34010.
> 
> When reading the ready signal d1..15 can be ignored.
> 
> Something like...
> 
> 	move.w	$a00008,d0	; A3 high
> 	and.w	#$1,d0		; ignore d1..15
> 	beq/ne	.......
> 
> then	move.w	#???,$a00002/4/6	; use A1..2 to select register
> 
> From above you can also see I'll be using a spare section of memory.
> a00000 which is free upto beffff.  This section only needs a few lines
> for address decoding.  Any strong objections to this address range?

The A500 runs slow "6800" E-clock synchronized cycles throughout the
A0-BF range and the selection for the 8520's is primitive and might
conflict with your intentions.

If you're building a personal toy, then you could stick in anywhere in
the address map that is convenient, a fixed address at the top of Zorro-II
memory or auto-config space.  If you're making something that might be
a product, then implement the auto-config protocol.

-- 
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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: stj@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Grimthorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Differences between 500 and 500+
Keywords: 500, 500+, differences, compatibility
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:05:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware


  I've only just got a A500+, and I would like to know about
all differences, as some of the programs I had for a A500 don't work
any more.

  If replying by email, can you send it to: rlangst@nyx.cs.du.edu

  Also, can you mail me any information about ftp sites or BBS that
might contain this sort of information.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang)
Subject: Insider / Kwikstart II...Help
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:25:37 GMT

Insider (not Insider II): where do the wires go?
  I believe one goes to P4 on the Kickstart daughterboard...how about the
  other?  (Yes, I am without docs...)

Kwikstart II: installing the 2.04 rom
  Do I remove the wire jumpering pin 1 to pin 31?

Thanks.
From: John.Haubrich@mtask.omahug.org (John Haubrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM software???
Date: 07 Nov 92 22:05:52 CST
Reply-To: john.haubrich@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

According to DealerScope magazine, Pioneer has just released a 600K/sec
(quadruple-speed) CDROM.  They didn't mention price or availability.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: How to access individual bits of a CIA
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution:  world
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:39:50 GMT

I have been searching high and low for information about how to 
access/program individual bits of a CIA.

Specifically, I would like to configure the data bits as inputs,
and strobe the DRDY* line, then poll the ACK* line and read the
data bits when ACK* is de-asserted.

I have an 8-bit ADC chip connected to the parallel port, and am
trying to write some software to read it.

The order of operations is as follows:

1.) Strobe DRDY*.
2.) Wait for ADC chip to de-assert ACK* (I'm using ACK* as busy line).
3.) When ACK* is de-asserted, read 8 data bits.
4.) Loop back to number 1.

Please, PLEASE, will someone help me or point me in the right direction?

I know this can be done, but apparently, it isn't possible by going
through the parallel.device (at least the handshaking isn't under
programmer control).  So, I am assuming that I must directly address
the CIA on the parallel port.

Thanks for any help,

Jim Graham 

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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Epson ES-300C Scanner questions
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 22:07:53 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>	I am currently seriously considering to buy the Epson
>ES-300C scanner with the ASDG driver.  I have some questions that
>need to be answered before I move.
>
>	On what port do I connect the Scanner? SCSI? Parallel port?
>	Do I need an IEEE card to use it?
Parallel port. ASDG's driver comes with the proper cable. Mine is
hooked to my 2500 thru a 4-way parallel port a/b/c/d switchbox
and has been for well over a year and I've had NO problems. No IEEE card
needed. Just ADPro, the scanner, the driver and the cable that comes with.
>
>	Is it possible to scan negative films or am I limited
>	to positive pictures?
The ES300C has no facilities to scan negatives or slides. Epson is
releasing a couple new models that do, though. I don't have any
details on them except that they're supposed to be shown at COMDEX
in Las Vegas this month in Epson's booth. 


>
>	Is the scanner completely controlable by software?

Yes. ASDG's ADPro Epson Scanner driver does it all. The scanner has
a couple buttons on it but you never need to touch them. The software
is extremely intuitive and a joy to use (IMHO).
>
>	Does the ASDG driver have an ARexx port?

Yes, it does. 
>
>Answers to those will greatly help me decide if I'll move or not.
>
>	Thank's
>
>
> - Edouard

You're welcome
Harv
(author of ASDG's Epson Scanner Loader/Driver manual, by the way :-)
From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA monitors/ IDEK MF series ????
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 16:09:46 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> Company went out of business. The mail order liquidators (C.O.M.B, etc )
> had some but I think they are sold out of them. And good luck getting
> spare parts & warranty work for a monitor put out by a dead company.

Since you were discussing monitors for the A4000, here's a list I found in 
amiga.eur (fidonet) written by Bjorn Stenberg, 2:201/328@fidonet. Perhaps it 
might be of some help!

--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--

 PK> A number of MultiScanscan go down to 15. 
 PK> I'm using a CTX 3436 Multi with my 
 PK> A4000 and am very satisfied with it. There must be some 
 PK> other ones though...

Yes, there are.

I've compiled a small list of 14" monitors (larger ones are mostly too 
expensive) which can handle 15 KHz horizontal scan rate:

                                Horiz.   Vert.  List Price
Manufacturer     Model          (KHz)    (Hz)   (US$)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Amazing tech.    MS-8431        15-36      ?    $399
Adara tech.      AML-1402       15-36    45-90  $650
AOC intl.        CM-324         15-36    50-90  $549
AOC intl.        CM-326         15-38    50-90  $649
CTX intl.        Multiscan 3436 15-38    50-90  $780
Darius tech.     TSM-1431       15.5-39  50-90  $699
Electrohome ltd. ECM 1410/1411  15-40    45-90  $1195
Everex Systems   Eversync       15.5-35  50-70  $599
Falco Data prod. FMS            15-38    47-90  $750
ForeFront tech.  MTS-9608S      15-38    50-90  $449
Golden Dragon    TY-1411        15.5-37  50-120   ?
Intra Electr.    CM-1403        15-38    40-100 $290-$350
Leading Edge     CMON M         15.75-39 50-90  $599
Microvitec       Model 2014/P   15-40    45-100   ?
Mitsuba Corp.    Model 710MH    15-38    50-90  $415
Princeton        Ultra 1400     15-38    45-120 $899
Sampo Corp.      AlphaScan      15.75-36 50-87  $649
Sceptre tech.    CE-8           15-38    50-90  $995
Sceptre tech.    CM-3           15.5-36  50-70  $795
Talon tech.      Tuff/CRT       15-35    47-73  $6000
Tatung           CM-1495H       15-37    40-120 $899
Taxan            MV 770+        15-37    50-90  $895
TVM Professional MD-11 III+     15-38    46-100   ?
TW Casper corp.  TM-5414        15.5-35  50-70    ?
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This is "only" a compilation of a bunch of product infos, don't blame me if 
some info may be out of date or incorrect.

I made this list for myself since I'm thinking about buying myself a neat 
monitor, but I guess others may find it interesting too.

        -- Bjorn

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 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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From: saunders@cs.arizona.edu (Richard T. Saunders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiprocessing
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:04:53 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Nov10.234916.6311@ultb.isc.rit.edu> snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.N. Mozumder ) writes:
>In article <boing.721262416@mcl> boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian) writes:
>>In <1992Nov7.211453.21687@ultb.isc.rit.edu> snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.N. Mozumder ) writes:
>>
>>>To folks at CBM:
>>
>>>Are there any plans for a multiprocessing or RISC based Amiga?  My last
>>>rendering took 25 hours on Lightwave 3-D on a 030/882-25 MHz Amiga for
>>
>>	[ ray tracing stuff cut out]
>>
>>>multiprocessing?  Radius has such boards for 68040 multiprocessing on
>>>Macintoshes.  Already maximum performance on the macintosh has exceeded
>>>the Amigas in ray tracing with the Radius boards.  Help us videographers
>>>out here.  25 hours is a whole day of not doing work on the computer.
>>
>>	But see ... on an AMIGA it's not a whole day without doing 
>>	work on the computer.  We can multitask unlike the MAC.
>But the Toaster Doesn't multitask while rendering in Lightwave 3-D.
>
>Bobby Mozumder

Be careful to distuinguish between multi-TASKING and multi-PROCESSING.
Multi-PROCESSING implies that you have >1 processors working in parallel
(let's not count the blitter and Copper for the moment ... usually
 a multi-processor has "general purpose" processors).  Multi-TASKING
implies >1 "logical" processors, i.e., you don't HAVE to have >1
processors.

Why am I being so careful in my nomenclature?  Well, if the Macintosh actually
has plug in boards that allow you to "Multi-PROCESS", then I would say that
is a serious advantage over the Amiga.  Multi_PROCESSING is the wave of 
the future---it's the only way we'll be able to compute faster because
soon processors will hit the "Speed of Light" barrier.  

What work is being done, or what work has been done, on upgrading the
Amiga to multiprocessor status?

(As an aside, I remember reading in the RKM:Hardware that TSET (a 680x0
 instruction used the in synchronization of multiprocessors on a shared-memory
 bus) is discouraged from use because it "ties up" (?) buses on the Amiga
 architecture.  Without this "atomic" instruction, It seems like it would
 be difficult to have a multiprocessing Amiga, at least in the "Shared
 Memory Multiprocessor" sense.  Any comments?  Does anybody know why
 TSET is to be avoided?)

		Gooday,

		Richie


 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:00:40 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC (smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM) wrote:

> Not so. All colour TVs incorporate such circuitry, to build a standalone
> composite->RGB decoder unit would cost about $50 for the parts, maybe a bit
> more if you needed an external power supply.

For anybody who wants to try putting one together, an issue of Radio
Electronics a while back had an article with plans for such a thing.  It
costed between $50 and $75 for parts.  However, good luck finding that
Motorola IC they used.  I don't think they're in production any more.

   - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: earl@rtsg.mot.com (Brent R. Earl)
Subject: 2.04 "System expansion board check"???
Keywords: Help?! funny screen on startup
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:28:48 GMT

I just received a "System Expansion Board Check" after startup.
(B2000, 2.04, 1m agnes, just added super denise, microbotics 8-up
simm board 6m enabled, hardframe scsi controller, 2088 bb, mfm controller
and mem expansion for bb).

I had just added the super denise, started a few times to make sure
everything worked, changed my screen prefs to pal-superhires, powered
down for 5 minutes.  When I started up I got a red screen with the
title:

 "System Expansion Board Check"

  ok  1010 158
  ok  1010 3
  bad 1010 4
  ok  513  1

  continue

Any suggestions/explanations?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: phantom@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Joern Carstens)
Subject: Tandberg TDC38xx and Supra-Wordsync
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:25:35 GMT

Hi !

Does the Tandberg TDC38xx Streamer work with the Supra-Wordsync
Controller for my Amiga ?
And which are the differences between TDC3800 and TDC3820 ?

Bye

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  Joern Carstens, Eulerstr. 15, D-1000 Berlin 65, FRG, +49 30 4942429
  EMail:    phantom@cs.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
Subject: 2.04 on a 500
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 23:29:29 GMT

Simple question...what is required (hardware-wise) to run 2.04 on a Rev 6 
A500?  I've yet to do the 1meg chip RAM conversion (would like another 
2 megs in my GVP controller first...); I think this needs to be upgraded 
first prior to getting 2.04, right?
 
Posted and/or E-Mail'ed responses are welcomed...
 
Thanks!

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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Networking?
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:37:33 GMT
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov12.183712.11344@wicat.com> gsarff@wicat.com (Gary Sarff) writes:
>easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
>
>>In article <009635F3.E97CE580@rhea> treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE writes:
>>>Dear Hardware Hackers,
>>>As our Amiga section is loosing ground in our local computer club, we
>>>need some sort of networking capability to connect to our club network.
>>>Is there a way to connect an Amiga 500 to either Arc- or Ethernet?
>>>I've got the SANA-II-drivers on my disk, but all I've seen in the
>>>hardware section are Network boards for the ZORRO-II, and nothing,
>>>except a preliminary schematics for an arcnet connection on the parallel
>>>port, which would connect to an A500.
>>  I guess I should admit that I drew up the schematic for the parallel
>>port Arcnet adapter.  Funny how that thing gets around.  I'm glad I 
>>marked it preliminary, since last week a little birdie visited my...
>
>There are arcnet cards that fit on the expansion port on an amiga 500
>I have some of them.  I also have some that fit in a slot in the 2000.  This
>is at work, but we have had the cards since at least mid 1988, when I was
>hired, and a bit before that.  Part of a discontinued project to use amiga
>500's as low cost color graphics terminals to run our educational courseware.
>I have been trying to find out who made these cards and if they are 
>compatible with any software, but have not had any success. 

Are they just cards or are they in a metal box? Are they C= A560's?  If
so, then the latest sana2developer.lzh archive that I _just_ sent to ESCO
has an A2060 SANA-II driver that will work with those and allow you to run
any SANA-II compliant software with them :)

Brian
       +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
       Brian Jackson    Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
                        bj@cbmvax.commodore.com
     {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj    or   networking@cbmvax.commodore.com
                       uva uvam vivendo varia fit
From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Flicker fixer for A4000
Summary: typo funny
Keywords: flicker fixer a4000
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:51:30 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov10.120850.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>Is there a flicker fixer coming out for the new A4000 that will flicker fix
>all resoultions in 24bit or at least 640x400 (640x5120). I hear that there
[...]

Hey!  Didn't we tell you to keep quiet about that 5120-line "MegaPAL" mode???  
We don't want folks to know that they could just cut a trace on the A4000 
motherboard to get that thousand-fold increase in bandwidth.  But at that 
resolution, who would notice the flicker anyway???

But seriously, folks, I'm pretty sure there's no flicker-fixing device 
available for the SuperHires modes...yet.  Don't hold your breath waiting 
for Commodore to work up such a device, but it does sound like a plausible
third-party target.  

How many people will want to pay for what it would cost is a more pertinent 
question.

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