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From: charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Intermittent Quantum drive problems
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:02:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: kakwa.1992Sep11.010228.9988
Reply-To: charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois)
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering

I have a Quantum 240 Meg hard drive in a GVP Series II controller that
has started acting flakey on me.

The problem seems simple enough... every once in awhile, the motor
simply stops spinning... to usually start again a few seconds later
(though it has stayed off for much longer periods from time to
time...)  I suspect that there is an intermittent connection to the
motor of the hard drive that is causing problems.

I know that the problem is in the Quantum drive and not the GVP SCSI
controller or anything, since I have unplugged the drive from
everything other than the 4-wire power cable.  (including the SCSI
input to the drive as well as unplugging the whole unit from my A500).
The problem still persists.

I am wondering if anyone has had similar problems in the past.
Sometimes it will work for hours with no problems, and then suddenly
have palpatations.  The drive is still, theoretically under warranty,
but I was told by one repair center here that since it was bought in
the US, it would have to be returned to the US for warranty repair
work.  I'm not particularly fond of paying UPS a fortune to ship it
for me and wait 10 weeks for it to get repaired when the problem seems
as simple as a loose connection somewhere.  And to get it repaired
without a warranty here (I'm in Canada, by the way) will cost me about
$225 plus labor (supposedly they would have to replace the motor
rather than try and find the problem with it...).

I am, after all, an Electrical Engineering student, so I know which
end of a soldering iron to hold, but am reluctant to break open the
warranty seals on the drive at this point.  Unfortunately, every time
I have it open for testing, it works flawlessly so I haven't been able
to yet determine the problem.

If anyone has had a similar problem with a Quantum drive, I'd
appreciate hearing about it so I could possibly be pointed in the
right direction towards fixing it.  Thanks a lot!

Dan
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From: maze@diku.dk (Mads Haahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2232 + GVP G-Force 030
Date: 9 Sep 92 11:30:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

lar@ucs.usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.) writes:

>Is anyone using a Commodore A2232 serial board in an Amiga 2000 system
>with a GVP G-Force 030 accelerator board?  In my case, the A2232 has
>been working nicely for about 9 months in my unaccelerated 2000.
>Since I added the GVP accelerator board (50 MHz) last week, the A2232
>now fails to work the vast majority of times that I boot the system.
>The builtin port works, but the ports on the expansion card can't be
>opened.

I have an A2232 and have had problems opening the ports on the expansion
card.

The first time I issue and OpenDevice call after a reboot, the process
is hung, until another OpenDevice call is made (from another process).
When the second call is launched, both calls return and everything works
okay.  Please don't ask me why.

As a consequence, I made a small C program (called SetSerial, due to lack
of imagination), that initializes a unit with the SDCMD_SETPARAMS command.
I run it (using the run command) in my Startup-Sequence, for each of the
ports I use frequently.  You can have a copy if you want, but it's nothing
special, really.

I don't know if you're experiencing the same phenomenon, but that may be the
case.  My configuration is :-

  Amiga 2000A (Gosh, are they still around? :-)
  A2630 with 2 Megs of 32 bit RAM
  Kronos HD Controller from C Ltd. (Now gone bust) with a Maxtor LXT340SY
  Supra RAM card with additional 2 Megs of "FAST" RAM
  A2232 Serial card
  WB2.04 with ZKick (I'm upgrading to ROM in three weeks)

-- Mads Haahr
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Mads Haahr                                         maze@freja.diku.dk
Department of Computer Science -  University of Copenhagen -  Denmark
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           "No, my first name doesn't mean that I'm nuts."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:05:47 GMT

>And the '040  4000 is overpriced as is.  Will there be any "lesser" models
>or a substantial educational discount for those of us who can't *afford*
>to shell out almost 4 grand?
>
>(Only model I've heard of so far is the $3700 one with 6mb and a 120mb IDE)
>

     You mean the one that's already been advertised for $2900 several
places?  That's hardly shelling out almost 4 grand.
     (And yes, since the processor is on a separate board, I imagine we'll 
be seeing a lower-cost model in the not-too-distant future).



-- 
Don Lloyd                / "No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of \
don@chopin.udel.edu      | another computer is a kludge.  It has nothing to do |
GeNIE: D.LLOYD7          \ with the Intel CPU"  - Jerry Shekhel                /
BIX: DRL
From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP memory question...
Keywords: how?
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:27:07 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:

> I'm considering getting myself a GVP G-Force 030 Combo-25/1 or 40/4
> but I'd like to know a little more about the memory arrangement...
> 
> The 25/1 comes with 1Mb and is expandable to 13Mb with the addition of
> three SIMMs.
> 
> The 40/4 comes with 4Mb and is expandable to 16Mb with the addition of
> three SIMMs.
> 
> The question is, how are they doing this?  Consider the 25/1.  Initially,
> it has one meg with it.  Is it 8, 16, or 32-bit wide?  How do (or CAN)
> they combine a 1Mb memory with 4Mx24 to achieve 32-bit wide memory??  I
> suspect the board doesn't really use 32-bit wide memory, and thus I am
> hesitant to purchase it.
> 
> Next consider the 40/4.  Is the 4Mb initially present 32-bit wide?  If
> so, does the addition of three SIMMs reconfigure the board (perhaps
> with a jumper change) such that this memory is then part of a 32-bit wide
> block of 16Mb?  This is strange!
> 
> What's going on here?  If someone could help me out, I'd appreciate it!
> I certainly don't want to get stuck with an 030 board using any non-32-bit
> memory design. 
> 

Well, on all GVP boards, the memory is 32-bits wide.  What simms you can use
on the board depends on what board you buy.  The 40/4 can only use 4M simms,
I believe.  The 25/1 can use either 1M or 4M simms.  I'm not sure whether
you can mix or match.  In the Series II boards, the 22mhz board had 1M on
board, and you could mix and match simms to a limited degree.

Me: I have a GVP Series II Combo board (33mhz 030) with 12Megs of 32-bit
wide memory.  It's quite fast :).

If you completely populate a board with 4M simms (16M total), you have a
choice of placing the memory a) all in "extended" space, b) 4M in
autoconfig, and the rest in "extended" space, c) 8 M in autoconfig, and 8M
in "extended" space.

The "extended" memory is DMA'd specially to the Processor on the GVP board,
which solves the problems with exceeding Auto-Config space :).

	-hope this helps out.
	-steve


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried.Krueger)
Subject: Re: aga chipset
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:36:27 GMT

daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

...stuff deleted...

>I'm waiting to see what the boys at DKB Software come up with :-).  They got my 
>A2500 here up to 2MB of chip RAM and 20MB of 32-bit fast RAM.
        
Oh boy, I'm really disappointed. In an earlier posting you mentioned that
your A2500 was 'hacked up'. Do you call MegaChip 'hacked up'? Maybe I
should send you some photos of my 2000 with 2MB Chip RAM _on_board_? 


>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      BIX: hazy
>	"Work like a horse, drink like a fish"	- Psychefunkapus

winnie.
From: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drive Question
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:35:49 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

The numbers you are quoting are BLOCKS.  Each block is 512 bytes, total
of blocks/2 should be your 52 megs.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: etxpnil@etxsk.ericsson.se (Per Nilsson)
Subject: Booting 1.3 with SetCPU on a A3000
Organization: ERICSSON Telecom
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:53:40 GMT

When I boot my A3000 with Kickstart 1.3 using SetCPU, I can't use
any of my Harddrives. When I boot I use the command:
setcpu kickrom <kickfile>
Why doesn't the harddrives show up when I type Info, 
and how can I fix it ?

 - etxpnil@etxsj.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: nschultz@zeus.calpoly.edu (Ned Schultz)
Subject: Checking CIA chips?
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:06:49 GMT


I think I may be having a CIA chip problem.  Could someone remind me of
the symptoms when a CIA chip is going/gone?  Is there any software that
will check the chips?  I've run SysInfo and according to it there are
0 timing errors with CIA(A).

Here are the two problems I've found:  DF1 will not read or write disks.
It's been like this for a long while and I had been thinking it was
out of alignment.  But I just installed an Amax II+ and while it runs
fine the first time it is booted, any subsequent boot ends in an error.
If I pull the floppy cable it runs again (until it tries to find a 
drive).  The REadySoft manual suggests that CIA chips can cause this
problem.

Please email if you know anyway to check the CIA chips or if you have
ideas about what may be up here.  Thanks...

Ned Schultz
nschultz@nike.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Subject: Re: AA or AGA in A3000 
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 06:46:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.222804.8743@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU () writes:
>	Any body in the know. The net should flud with info from the show
>Question ... How do I get AA (AGA) in the AMiga 3000. 


   The AGA chipset can not be put inside the A3000. AGA and ECS are not pin
compatable, and the A3000 doesn't have the bandwidth required to make use of
the new high-color graphics modes. 


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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: aga chipset
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep15.094144.27575@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried.Krueger) writes:
>daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>>I'm waiting to see what the boys at DKB Software come up with :-).  They got my 
>>A2500 here up to 2MB of chip RAM and 20MB of 32-bit fast RAM.

>Oh boy, I'm really disappointed. In an earlier posting you mentioned that
>your A2500 was 'hacked up'. Do you call MegaChip 'hacked up'? 

No, I said it was "tricked-out".  Big difference.  Sure, I could hack in a 
second meg of Chip RAM, but why bother when DKB sent me their board?  It saved
me time I could better spend on Real Fun, and gives me first hand knowledge of 
this product to pass on to you all, for better or for worse (so far it's worked
flawlessly).  They also sent me a memory board, so I have 20MB of Fast RAM in
my A2500.  Don't tell me you wire-wrapped a Fast RAM board for your hand made
Lucas board, did you :-)

I save may hacking time for the really important stuff.  Like the system I keep
on my desk at home where I do most of my Amiga-based work (well, the system 
there isn't really all that hacked up, but I think many of the good listeners
out there would like it....).

-- 
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 "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: hazy
             "We're not hitchhiking anymore, we're riding" -Ren Hoek
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
From: mbuc1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:06:05 GMT
 <ABAIR.92Sep4215200@parsons.sps.mot.com> 
 <1992Sep6.234843.377@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Sep7.235709.3786@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <copes.715930575@marsh>
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <copes.715930575@marsh> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:

>Yep, thats right.  Over in oz, 4 megs cost me A$240, and that was a bargain.  
>Thats 1Mx4 parts, static colum, 8 chips worth.  People in the US don't know
>how lucky they are.....

>--
>copes@cs.curtin.edu.au

Hmmm... I rang up my friendly Computer retail outlet and talked to the very
helpful salesperson Rob, who informed me that those same 4meg worth of
chips would only cost me NZ$730 !!! (that's approx US$350-360)

Think I might import them myself. I have the address of Memory World, and
AMT in the States. What about Oz?? A$240 still works out to NZ$320 ! Any
suggestions??

much appreciated,
Matt.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech)
Subject: The A570 CD-ROM
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:04:04 GMT

Is there any reason why the A570 CD-ROM drive couldn't be attached
to A3000?  What port does this unit connect too?

In CBM's press release they only mention the A500 as being the host
machine.  Given this fact I would assume the A570 connects to the 
side expansion bus.  This is only an assumption - hence the reasons
for the above questions!




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
Subject: Grapevine does something right
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:43:05 GMT

I just received the 1 Meg Agnus today.  I purchased it from Grapevine
(I know I have been warned, but I couldn't resist.)  First thing I did
was verify that the chip was the correct model number.  Yup.  8372A

Many here have horror stories about defective chips, so I popped it in
without making the motherboard modifications.  Well.  It works just as
well as the old one.  SysInfo 2.70 says it's the ECS Agnus too.  But the
program lost some of its credibility when since it also says I have the
ECS Denise.  I don't I'm afraid.

Now for the fun stuff.  I'm trying to read Grapevine's instructions.
Someone said it was a cheap photocopy.  That's much too generous.  It's
a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy...  I can read most of it.

The heck with these foolish instructions.  There's somebody out in net
land infinitely smarter who can verify the what I've got to do for
my Rev5 A500:
  o cut trace between middle and lower pads on JP2
  o make trace between top and middle pads on JP2 using soldering pencil
  o bend pin 38 (whichever one that is I dunno) of Gary chip up

I think this is all it takes.  I wont make the modifications until
someone in the know can verify this is what it takes and/or tell me the
proper modification instructions.

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From: colas@aenegada.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030 Accelerators for the Amiga 500
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:12:23 GMT
Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France

In article <epa.715928734@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>, epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric
P. Armstrong) writes:
|> I am looking at buying a 68030 accelerator for my Amiga 500 since I
|> I want a 68030 w/MMU  (None of this EC crap!),
|> Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.

I am looking too to upgrade my 500.
Here is what I have gathered so far:

The GVP A530 seems the best solution. In europe it is not much more expensive
than the Mega Midget Racer or VXL solutions, and seems much safer than all
these german "hacked" accelarators...
Besides I want a HD too, and then  the GVP is then cheaper than say a VXL +
HD...

But: the price of a GVP is VERY close from a A3000, so I am waiting till the
announcment of the new models... may be there will be discounts on 3000s,
putting them at the same price as a GVP ?

PS: all sources seems to indicate that you can just unsocket the EC on any
current accelerator and put a full 030 in the same place...

-- 
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From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A500 Fat Agnus question
Date: 9 Sep 92 06:48:50 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

Hiya
	I know this is a FAQ ... But, could some person who has the
information mail it to me?

	I'm Looking for the information necessary to >enable< the fat agnus
on a REV 6A A500.

	The chip is installed, and SysInfo reports it present, but there is
still only the 512K of chip there...

	-Thanks a bunch.
	-steve


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From: wirth@igd.fhg.de (Hanno Wirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Putting an ECS Denise in A2000 rev. 4.1 -> Problems?
Summary: Are there any problems putting an ECS Denise in an A2000 rev. 4.1 with non-Commodore flicker fixer?
Keywords: ECS, Denise, A2000, rev. 4.1, flicker fixer
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:04:36 GMT
Organization: Zentrum fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt, Germany

Hello out there,

I have an old A2000 rev. 4.1, equipped with KS/WB 2.04 and a DeInterlacer card.
In order to get the new video modes and to kill this #%@&! border around non-
black screens, I am considering of buying an ECS Denise. Are there any known
problems with the configuration described above (such as jittery right edge of
display, flicker fixer not working any more, the like...)?
	Would anyone who put an ECS Denise in a similar config be so kind of
mailing me his/her experiences? That would surely help me making the decision.

Greetings & thanks in advance,

	Hanno

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From: john@igd.fhg.de (Werner John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A2090 and large drives : SOLVED !!
Keywords: A2090 HD Drive large
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:21:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: IGD FHG Darmstadt, FRG

Hello everyone,

I've received many relpies with some nice ideas.  The problem is solved.
I'd like to thank Michael L. Hitch (cheers) from the Montana State
University  Bozeman, MT  USA.  He send me the solution and an explanation
for it: (in short)
The driver maintains 8 8-block buffers. When a read or write request for a
single block is received, it checks to see if the block is in one of the
buffers. It does a DIVU on the block number followed by a MULU to get the
starting block number of the 8-block segment. With more than 0x80000 blocks,
DIVU fails, because the quotient is more than 16 bits.

Michael sent me a patch, I patched hddisk and now it works :-) Thanks
to you, Michael.

So, here are some other hints, that might be useful to other A2090 users.
     o	Disable parity checking on your drive. Although it doesn't make
	a difference with my A2090. I had (and still have) parity enabled
	on my ST157N, ST1096N, LPS425 and it works. Perhaps parity is
	simply ignored.
     o	Buy a new controller. New controllers have autoboot, FFS, and
	are faster. Currently, the transfer rate I got with my A2000
	rev. 4.4, Kick+WB 2.04, A2630 4MB, SetCPU FASTROM HEAD CACHE is
	somewhere between 1.0 and 1.1 MB per second with FFS. I used 
	DiskPerf and DiskSpeed for testing.
	What about other controllers and system configurations. How fast
	are you?

The maximum nuber of heads supported with the A2090 and hddisk is
32 (surfaces), 32768 Sectors and (2^^31)-1 Cylinders (or was it vice
versa? I have to check). Of cause, the total number of blocks must not 
exceed the maximum 32-bit integer value (about 2,000,000,000 with signed
integers) Anyway, it is large enough for the Amiga.

By the way, I've formatted my primary partition with FFS too !!  It
works with my ST1096 since I got 2.04 and thats almost 8 month now.
You have explicitly give the FFS option to system:format and you'll
get 512 byte blocks. BUT: the buffers will be in CHIP-MEM, but this
doesn't make much difference with the A2090.

You got more questions, helps, ... I'll be with you.

Thanks to all who replied,			yours
							Johnny

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