HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP/SyQuest SOLVED!
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:20:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

By pulling out the terminating resistors at the back of the SyQuest, I
got both my GVP s.II (a500+), and the 44m SQ to work.  But this lead me
to thinking on how the GVP SCSI chain is set up.  I offer the following
proposal, in no way is this meant to be taken as the absolute truth
(in other words IMHO).

My SCSI looks like this:

55Meg Quantum (in GVP) -----> SuQuest ---> SCSI #2 ----> #3 ---->
    SCSI #0                   SCSI #1

	#4------> #5-----> #6-----> GVPscsi.device ---> to computer
					SCSI #7

Now, according to the GVP manual, the quantum has no terminating resistors
on it (this was verified).  Without the SyQuest in the chain, the SCSI
controller would see the scsi.dev, followed by the Quantum.  No problem
(SCSI scans backwards along the chain (from 7 to 0) by my understanding)

However, I had first installed the SyQuest WITH the term. resistors on it.
Now, the controller saw the GVPscsi.dev, followed by the SyQuest.  It DOES
NOT see the Quantum.  Thus, when the Quantum tries to validate itself, 
the controller doesnt recongnized the device, and barfs at it.  (This
explains the 'Unexpected Status' warning).

So, by removing the resistors, the Quantum is now visible to the scsi.dev,
and everything proceeds hunky dorry...

MORAL:  GVP LIES!  According to the manual, it says that additional devices
should follow the rule of thumb: the last one should have a term. resistor.
However, if this is done, all the devices before the last on the chain will
not be validated, and you lose those drives.

Please correct me if I am incorrect...I still plan on getting a CD-ROM
drive once they become super cheap, but I do not want this problem to 
reoccur.  I am just hoping that the removal of the Term. resistors on
the SyQuest was not a fluke, but it has worked thru 10+ resets/powerups...

Michael Neylon   aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!
      //         | Senior, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Toledo
  \\ // Only the |   Summer Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center
\  \X/   AMIGA!  |          smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov              /
 --------+ How do YOU spell 'potato'?  How 'bout 'lousy'? +----------
    "Me and Spike are big Malcolm 10 supporters." - J.S.,P.L.C.L
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:14070 comp.sys.amiga.misc:12631
From: blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PAL/NTSC screen position;HELP!
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:42:05 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Well, just installed my new 1 meg Agnus and it worked like a charm!

Here's my question/problem/dilemma:

How can I make the screen bearable in either NTSC or PAL?
WHat I mean by that is when I have a PAL screen, the top line is at the top
of my monitor, but the lowest line is a couple of inches up from the bottom.
When I switch into NTSC, the screen is squished a bit in the middle of the
screen with lots of space above and below it.  I have a 1084D, which has
a Vertical Width screw in the back, and a Vertical Hold dial  on the front.
Now, the Vertical Hold dial isn't too useful, because if I move the screen down
a bit and twiddle the dial to freeze it there, when I switch into NTSC and then
back to PAL it jump back up to its original height with all the blank space
at the bottom. Now, my friend has an older 1084 which has a Vertical Height
knob and he was able to position the screen in the middle and then increase
it's height to make it more even.  Is there any way I can achieve this?
Does it have to do with my Workbench preferences? My monitor? 

Thanks,

Aaron
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  16MHz A3000 to 25MHz  (!)  Hardware "Hack"
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:36:59 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <713678050.3386.0@unix5.andrew.cmu.edu> cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton) writes:
>>
>Why did C= not socket the CPU?  

Because it gives you 1. more space on the board, 2. much more reliability
(think about all those A500's booting into a green screen because of
socket problems with Agnus), and not as least 3. considerably less cost.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
				   or  peterk@public.sub.org
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: C-Ltd.
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:17:18 GMT
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA


es anyone reading this post know WHO picked up C-Ltds supply?

I had heard that someone had taken over C-Ltd support and just sold it all
out REAL cheap like... Does anyone know who that was?

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu  |Look ma I is in college!|
-Standard Disclaimer - 90 Day warranty - Parts and Labor not included - Tags,
Taxes, and Titles may cost extra - Batteries not included - Allow 6-8 weeks
for delivery | A1000 Owner and damn proud of it!
From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Grow up! Buy a sense of humor!
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 20:34:53 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <64073@cup.portal.com> <10667547.48.714025719@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>

>In article <64073@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) wri
t
>es:
>>>Dan Abend (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu)                            AMIGAphile
>>     ^^^^^
>>
>>     Is this a GREAT name for a programmer or what!!! :-)
>
>Small things amuse small minds
>
>-Jif
>

Considering the San Francisco Chronicle and ComputerWorld both run occasional
columns featuring people's jobs and humorous tie-ins to their names, I suggest
you LIGHTEN UP!

(I now return you to your newsgroup... sorry for cracking a smile. GEEZ!)

Don DeCosta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: turckjb@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Jim T)
Subject: Using Pc hard drives on the amiga
Organization: Aston University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:58:00 GMT

I know it can be done, but have not found any info about it
anywhere...

Mnay thanx

turckjb@uk.ac.aston.cs

Jim T...
From: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup HW ?
Keywords: Touchdown 100 Backup
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:27:47 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Aug20.211223.9525@leela.cs.orst.edu> ridgwad@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Ridgway) writes:
>I've heard good things about Ami-Back but haven't tried it yet.  BTW the
>company that markets Ami-Back (moonlighter?) I have been told also has some
>kind of drive/software combo that you can buy.  I recall something like it
>was a refurbished Archive 2150 viper plus Ami-Back for $475 US.

	I paid $350 for mine from Moonlighter.  It came with Ami-Back 1.05,
and 2.0 is now out, so perhaps the price has changed.  It works fine for me
and several other people I know.  Moonlighter is (407) 384-9484.

	A3000T owners should be aware that the Viper cannot fit in the
A3000T's vertical drive bay -- you must use it in the horizontal bay.
Interested people can contact me to find out why.

[Speaking about the Quarterback + Caliper drive bundle]
>Like I stated, I know next to nothing about tape drives in general and I've
>only had mine a couple of weeks, but so far I'm fairly satisfied.  There are
>some minor annoyances which either come from tape drives in general or my
>Supra interface.  If you are doing a tape operation such as fast forward
>or rewind, you can't get to any other devices on the SCSI bus until that
>operation is finished.

	That's terrible!  And certainly doesn't happen with my setup (A3000T
with Ami-Back 2.0e).  I can access the hard drive during any tape operations.

>Also the way that QuarterBack handles multiple archives
>on a single tape is in my opinion kind of kludgy and could be MUCH better.
>Example: If you want to get to the third archive on a tape, with Quarterback
>you have to read in the first backup catalog, fast forward past it, cancel
>the restore, read in the second backup catalog, fast forward past it, cancel
>the restore, etc.

	Ami-Back 2.0e searches from archive to archive, prompting you
(Yes/No) whether it should restore the current one.  If not, it searches
to the next one.  This is not the best method, but it's pretty painless.

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: Dan Lawrence <danl@halcyon.com>
Subject: Kickfiles for 1.3?
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:57:50 GMT

I am trying to make a kick file of kickstart 1.3.  I have both
Zkick and KickIt to boot the kickfile, but I don't know how to make
the image.  We have several a2000's here at work (we are VAR's) so
I have both plain 68000's and 68030's (commodore a2360) available. 
I remember reading about doing this on the net by using a 68030
utility, but I didn't save the article.  

Some of the computers we have here are running 2.0.4 ROM's and I
hope to use the kickfile to allow us to run 1.3.3 occasionally on
these machines.

Please respond via Email.  I will post a follow up to this group
if there is interest.

danl@halcyon.com (try to use this one)
dan@polair.online.com (use this one if the other doesn't work)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: griffin@eecae.msu.edu (Dan Griffin)
Subject: Re: How do the A2000's IBM slots work?
Originator: griffin@eecae.ee.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 04:37:32 GMT

peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

> It's named Golden Gate (don't
>confuse this with the commercial real bridgeboard), but sorry I forgot
>the creator of this.

David Salamon
Dept. of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-8310

I'm just a very satisfied user!
-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Amiga Kiosks?
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:20:13 GMT

In article <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:

>> Phone, cable or the TV-TEXT encoding in the TV-signal can be used. The makers
>> of NComm is heavily into the communication part of this program. 
>> InfoChannel is (basicly) a larger version of Scala.

>Too bad!  NComm is full of bugs, try to be professional, shareware, and now
>they even want to make Torkel do work on another package?

Beg pardon, but could you follow-up and be more specific?  With the exception
of 2.03 (a hacked pirate version), I've found no more bugs in NComm than in
JRComm, and far less than Term, Baud Bandit, or ATalk III.

>It's not, that I have anything thing against his programming -- I haven't
>seen one bit, but the ANSI bug, the SLOOOOW speed, the nasty setup, the
>square look of it...  nah, there's too much wron with it.

Actually, it sounds like you're talking about version 1.921, which was free,
so what's to gripe about?  :-)

>And about the serial comms:  it allocates the serial in a BAAAD manner, not
>even freeing all of it, if something goes wrong, so you have to reboot to
>get rid of the 2-3 serial ports, NComm opened.

Ever contact Torkel about this?  I personally haven't seen this happen, but
maybe there's a common denominator.

>It might not be perfect yet, but it's BLAZINGLY fast, it does perfect
>ANSI/VT-100 (and will be doing VT-220) -- even IBM ANSI (there's a bug with
><ESC>[2J in IBM ANSI).
>
>Even in 16 color mode, it scrolls a screen full of colored ANSI graphics so
>fast, you can't possibly keep up with it...

What is this, BlazeMongerComm or something?  And is not being able to keep up
with a screen a good thing?

Seriously, if you are writing a comm program, more power to you.  Just make
sure you address all your gripe's with NComm and combine the best features
of all the good programs out there.  (personally, a lookalike of Access! would
be great!).

>Good programming of the serial.device gives ~238 cps throughput on normal
>Zmodem (built in) transfers -- I'd be surprised if I'd ever see NComm go
>beyond 230...

Not using the XPR libraries, are we?

>Sorry, I let it out here, but Torkel has never answered my letters.  I even
>suggested him to do the serial & ANSI perfect, but he never even bothered
>to answer...

Well.. disregard my earlier.  I'm too lazy to go edit it out :-)  


-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Subject: ECE Midi Interface
Originator: rbm2273@ultb
Keywords: MIDI, A1000, A3000, SERIAL
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:49:35 GMT

I know someone that has an ECE Midi Interface, built for an A1000.

What would be necessary to use this (hardware-wise) on an A3000?

Regards - Reply here or to rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 16MHz A3000 to 25MHz (!) Hardware "Hack"
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:07:57 GMT

In article <16r1a6INN1b1@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
>In article <64213@cup.portal.com>, Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
>	> When the CPUs are made, a few out of large batch(statistical sample)
>	> are selected and tested. IF they pass, they get the higher speed, if
>	> not, they drop down to the lower speed and test again.  Not every 
>	> CPU in the batch is tested, maybe the guy was lucky and got a fast
>	> one from a slow batch...
>
>When they do that sort of testing they test everything on the chip. Perhaps
>he got a chip where most of it works OK at 25MHz, but some less-frequently
>used instructions sometimes fail. It would seem to work, maybe a guru every
>few days, which isn't that unusual, or an occasional corrupted file.
>
>It might seem to work OK, but would you want to trust it for anything important?

I've bought the A3000 with the 16MHz -> 25MHz hack directly from a dealer.
This dealer has given me a one year warranty and the promise, that I can
trade my 25MHz hack-A3000 for a real 25MHz A3000 if any problems occure.

This dealer has sold more than one upgraded A3000 and does still exist. :)

I think a very good percentage of the 16MHz CPU's are *untestet* 25MHz Chips.
And if the CPU don't work with 25MHz, don't worry: go back to 16MHz
and all should be ok.

	Georg.

-- 
  hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		(Georg Hemann)
						(Oberer Markt 7/D-8712 Volkach)
From: evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (/X.BiSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: modems and multi-tasking.
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:01:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug13.200113.747
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept


My system includes the following:
	
	Amiga 2500 w/ 2 megs of 32 bit memory.
	Nexus HD controller w/ 4 megs 16 bit memory.
	USR HST 14.4

I am running a board using everybodies favorite..Ami-Express..
Anyways, when people are downloading, there is not that much slowdown (but
with an 030, should there be hardly any?) The problem is, when people are uploading, I can't do sh*t without majorly causing probs with their upload.  When I 
mean something, I mean I can't even use SID to view a text file with a text    
veiwer without causing some errors. Now, I know people running 2 and 3 nodes
off of simularly equiped systems.  And that is what I wanna do, except, I    
can't visualize my system handling it.  Even with Jr-Comm, if I am
Dl'ing at 2400 baud, I am busy doing things in the background, editing text,
un-arcing files etc.  And I look back to see I have 19 errors and a cps of 180!
Now, I think my 68000 could have done that.  After thinking it over, I have
come to the conclusion that the root of my problem must be that I need more
32 bit ram.  After booting up, and loadig SID 2.0, the kickstart image, etc..
almost all or all of the 32 bit ram is gone.
 
 So my question is, is this the problem or not?  Btw, I am using a quantum 105
 as my boot drive, and they are really fast, so I don't think that could have
anything to do with it.  I am almost positive, I am not running anything that
takes major CPU time.  And I normally get 1650 ul's and dl's using jr-comm,
and on the bbs.  Just as long as I don't screw around or they are only dl'ing
not uploading.  Please hurry.. my DUAL 16.8 well be here soon!!  Thanks.

Oh, one last question:  Is it the universal agreement that the pp dual serial
board has some driver problems, and takes up to much CPU time anyways?  And
the commodore 8 serial port board is the best, as long as you don't
need a rate of mor ethan 19.2?  The ideal solution for me, would be a board
that has 2 to 4 serial ports...with a DTE rate of 58.6 or whatever the number   
and has its own proccesor to handle the data, so my CPU doesn't have to.  But
I think I am out of luck right?  I know the GVP one is coming soon..but
only 1 serial port and 1 parralel port or ??  I would like at least 2 serial
ports.      

-MIC

ps. if any body would like to help me out..my adress is evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: A3000 having problems
Keywords: Lights flashing
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:47:32 GMT

Please check the CIA's too. A friend of mine had similiar crashes with his
A3000 the last few weeks and it turned out to be a broken CIA.

	Stefan

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Phone : +49-241-505705                      Germany     ///  Amiga makes
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: dkennedy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don Kennedy)
Subject: Re: Vivid 24 graphics card
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:36:30 GMT


Prices are as follows:                                                   

                                                                         

Vivid 24 with 1 video memory module                             $2995    

                                                                         

Vivid 24 upgrade modules                                                 

                                                                         

Single Graphics Coprocessor Upgrade Kit                           585    

Double Graphics Coprocessor Upgrade Kit                          1449    

Video Memory Upgrade Kit                                          729    

Broadcast Quality Digital Video Encoder                           729    

Video Effects Generator                                           385    

Program Memory Upgrade                                            385    

                                                                         

Note: the full blown system is rated at 28 MIPS, 160 Mflops. As a        

Comparison, the Silicon Graphics 4K/480 VGX is rated at 280 MIPS, 70


Mflops. The SGI system costs $194,000. An Amiga 3000, 040 processor, and 

Vivid 24 (full blown) costs $12,325.
From: brianh@f20.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Brian Heyboer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Internal serial port in
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:47:10 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/20 - Mercury Opus NEC360, St Petersburg FL

In an article of 12 Aug, wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth) writes:

HW> last time I screwed my A2000 rev. 4.1 apart, I noticed a connector (CN 304)
HW> which sits right next to the external serial port. There was a posting in
HW> c.s.a.h not long ago which stated that this is "the internal serial port" o
HW> the A2000. I mailed the guy who wrote the article, but he was of no help.

HW> My questions:   - is this port usable in terms of hardware (pins connected
HW>                   to serial chip)?
HW>                 - if it is indeed usable, what's it's pinout?
HW>                 - is it supported by serial.device?

Yes, that's the internal serial port.  But it is mostly wired in
parallel with the external port and is not a separately-addressable
port.  I say MOSTLY because it is actually wired like an A1000 serial
port (including voltages) when connected via ribbon cable to a DB-25.
Only real use I've ever seen is for those with A1000-specific MIDI
interfaces.

If you look at a schematic, it doesn't look like it's wired like an
A1000 port, but that's because the header connector is numbered
differently than a DB connector.  Using straight ribbon cable and IDC
connectors does give the proper connections (you leave pin 26 of the
header unconnected since the DB-25 has but 25 pins).
___
 X SLMR 2.1 X 

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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4 Gigs....and counting..
Keywords: SCSI Amigados
Date: 11 Aug 92 18:25:08 GMT
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.

In article <1992Aug9.034453.4560@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@crs.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes:
>Due to the standard AmigaDOS device interface any particular
>(logical) device is limited to 4gig. However, you may have many 4gig devices
>attached. Theoretically you could have lets see...
>In a A3000 which has 4 slots
>	5 SCSI controllers, each can get at 7 unit of 8 drives each -
>	giving you 5*7*8 or 280 drives. Say each drive was 4GIG.
>	That leaves you with 1120 GIG of disk space.
>	(You better have one *BIG* powersupply)

First of all, is the 4 gig limit on the drives in this case, or the partitions?
Aren't the partitions the logical devices?  If so, the amount of disk space
is only limited by the number of devices that you can have (times the maximum
partition size), and I think that is theoretically unlimited in the Amiga OS
(if it is limited, I bet the limit occurs at the DOS level.).

Actually, I think the number of logical devices is limited by the naming
convention (three characters for the actual device name).

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.

>How many computers that you know of have 1120 gig of online harddisk space?

I wish mine did!

-- 
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                                      - Thomas Paine                       ///
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