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From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Re: Tape SCSI medium error (HardFrame/Viper)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:22:33 CDT


In article <1992Jul22.082818.9753@rdg.dec.com>, bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink) writes:

    [...stuff deleted]
 
>  When I want to backup to the Viper, it starts to read the directory of
>  the harddisk and start to write the information to the tape (tape 
>  movement)(I guess it just wrote the index to the tape), then it rewinds 
>  the tape (rewind message) and then stops with this message :
>  "Error writing to backup tape. SCSI: Medium Error".
>  If I test it with another program it says "Tape Error #3 (Medium Error)"
> 
>  I'm sure the streamer is fine, but could it be just an Tape problem ?
>  Even if I erase the tape before hand, and rewind it, it gives the same 
>  error. Any clue ?

    Yup.  When was the last time you cleaned the tape heads?  They should
 be cleaned every 8 hours of use.  Also, what kind of tapes are you
 using?  I talked to a tech support person at Archive/Viper and he told 
 me to use ONLY 3M tapes.  I believe him!!  The only tapes that have held
 up are the 3Ms I have.  The Sony and Verbatums died.  So, clean your
 heads and use 3M tapes.  Oh.  One other thing.  The tech support guy 
 also said that you should only use one size of tape in the machine.  So
 if you start with 6150s you should stick with them and like wise with
 the 6250s.  You might be able to read the other size tapes but you will
 have trouble writing them. The reason is that the different tape sizes
 "wear" different patterns on the surface of the head.  When the drive
 comes to write to the tape it has a hard time verifying the data
 because the tape isn't lined up correctly.

> 
> 					Erik Bussink
> 					bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com


    Daniel Baehr

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From: kenward@cs.sfu.ca (Kenward Chin)
Subject: Hi-Q Tower
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:24:44 GMT

This A500 expander has been advertised for a while - does anyone have one,
or is there any word on potential release date?

Kenward Chin
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From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2000 rev.4 & A2630 & AdIDE
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:30:14 GMT
Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG

In a message dated Tue 28 Jul 92  8:08, Jyrkis@mits.mdata.fi (jyrki Saarine
wrote:

 JS> Hi! I found out that A2630 works in A2000 rev.4 if I remove the 68000
 JS> and
 JS> switch some jumpers. 

??? In my A2000 rev 4.4, the A2630 works without removing the 68000 and
switching any jumpers. And I know that so it does in many others' A2000 rev
4.x - maybe I didn't get the story???


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From: JPE1@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Multiple Inputs to One Monitor
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:45:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92205.004505JPE1
Organization: Penn State University


     I have a C1084S and currently have my Amiga and Genesis sharing the RGB
mode - which is wearing out the connector on the back of the monitor - and my
SNES hooked up to the composite input.  I am about to upgrade to an RGB cable
for my SNES, but this is going to mean more wear and tear on the RGB connector
on my monitor.
     I buy custom cables from Redmond to hook up my game consoles to the
monitor, and I even had a switchbox from Redmond so that I wouldn't have to
keep plugging and unplugging things to switch back and forth between my
Amiga and Genesis.  However, running the output from my Amiga through the
switchbox caused interference on the screen (even after trading in the
switchbox for another and having all the custom cables redone).  Also, this
switchbox required custom cables from the Amiga and console as well as from
the switchbox to the monitor, since the connectors on the switchbox were
not the same as that on the back of my C1084S.
     What I would like is a switchbox that will accept the cables I already
have (i.e. one where the connectors to receive RGB input from various devices
are the same as that on the back of my monitor) and won't degrade the output
from any of the devices that I pass through.  It should be able to control
at least four inputs [in case I get another console ;) ].
     Does anyone know where I could get such a device and approximately how
much it would cost?  Remember that I have already tried Redmond.  Please send
any suggestions to me by email, and I will post any helpful results.
     Thanks!


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From: robertk@taoami.lerctr.org (Robert Kesterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ROMDUMP for Amiga???
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:34:15 CDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Jul18.172116.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fspck@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
> Ok, Question:
>
> Seeing as how there are so many RomDUMP programs out the for the Mac, does the
> amiga have any?  I would like to be able to dump my ROMs to disk, and
> manipulate them a little.  See how things work, and then, after any
> modifications to them, I would like to be able to boot from them.  I would in
> essence like to use zKick or KickIt to boot the ROMs from disk.  Wouldn't it be
> nice to use setptach on your ROMs, then dump it to disk, and zkick it into Ram?
> I know it may seem a bit redundant, but, there are things I would like to try,
> and don't care to manipulate ROM code while the machine is running.  The roms I
> am talking about are the 1.3 and 2.0.  I would just like to manipulate it a
> little, and see what I can hack out of it..  I do realize that CBM may not like
> it, but, It's not like they do anything for their machine, much less defend it.
> I am not talking about the people that work there, just upper-management.
> (READ:  The president, IRVING.. LISTENING?!?!)
> So.. If so, let me know.

Why would you want to do that when you can change the OS in *supported* ways
using the SetFunction() routines, adding your own libraries, etc.?

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From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: mice
Date: 18 Jul 92 18:32:58 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

> > In <1992Jul14.122846.22709@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, s915426@minyos.xx.rmit.oz
> > > jerry@marin.uucp (Jerry C. Hudgins) writes:
> > > 	1)	Boing (3 Buttons is great for Dirwork and MNultiPLayer)
> > > 	2)	Pregnat Mouse (Once you get used to it its not bad)
> > > 	3)	Original A1000 mouse (Nice long cable and still rolling along)
> > > 	4)	Amiga 500/200 Mouse (cable is too short, and the buttons suck)
> > 
> > Since we're rating them...
> > 
> > 	1) Logitech TrackMan (been using one on my A3000 for a year now)
> > 	2) Original A1000 mouse
> > 	3) Original A3000 mouse (never used a 2000 mouse long enough to rate)
> > 	3) Boing mouse
> > 
> ...and for another viewpoint...
>  
>   1) MicroSpeed Trackball
>   2) Original A1000 mouse
>   3) (tie)  Boing/ present A500/A2000 mouse...

Well, for MY $0.02 :).  

I did the hack out there that converts a Microsoft Serial Mouse to Amiga bus
operation.  It works like a charm.  I really like the feel of the Microsoft
mouse (which, oddly is made by Tandon for Microsoft...), the click of the
switches, etc.   Also, the mouse has >just enough< mass so that I feel like
I'm moving something, yet it doesn't drag on me.

-steve


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From: Glenn_Carey@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Glenn Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Which accelerator board?
Distribution: world
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:51:54 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

In a message dated Sun 26 Jul 92 21:23, Catapcnl@rose-Hulman.edu. (chris La
wrote:
 CHL> prices come down.

 CHL> I currently have an A2000 with 1MB Chip, 2MB Fast; OS 2.04; a
 CHL> Dataflyer SCSI  
 CHL> board with a (nearly full) 80MB Seagate drive; and access to a
 CHL> DeskJet 500.  I  
 CHL> want to be able to do some DTP work;  I also do some C programming
 CHL> and am  
 CHL> interested in 3-D modelling.

well I would not worry about a laser printer if you have access to a
deskjet its fine for most DTP applications and if you really need a laser
the cultivate some friendships with people that have a laser 
for an accelerator I would say get the GVP 50mhz 030 with a large hard
drive and spend what you have left on 32 bit memory or wait until the GVP
040 hits and get it course thats just my opinion

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From: petter@pnilsen.UUCP (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:27:35 GMT
Organization: Ultima Thule Software

> >Opps, sounds like they should have a good reason for that price. Could it be
> >the rumoured MIDI-compatibility ?
>  
> Kinda doubt that. Like MIDI really costs anything to add.... the PD IO expansion
> project had provisions for MIDI baud rate generation with no problems.....
> and cost less than $100.....

Well, so far so good. However, my original question was for
information on this card. I know the price by now, but not too much
else. I need a card now, not in two months.  The card your making
looks very interresting, but as I said: I need one soon. 
Do you have any specific information on the GVP card ?

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From: apel@physik.uni-kl.de (Martin Apel (SAGA))
Subject: Re: A1000 kickstart WOM
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:22:47 GMT

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From: litz@cs.uwp.edu (Jeffrey Litz)
Subject: MMR's and 32bit RAM (again)
Summary: "auto-configing" 32bit RAM for MMR's
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:06:12 GMT

Attention to everyone who replied about "auto-configing" the 32bit RAM
for the Mega Midget Racer.  Due to a mail system problem, all mail I received
in the past few days got trashed.  (Everything - MMR related or not!)  So,
if all the people who replied would send me mail again, I'll send out a copy
of the program as soon as I get the response.  It's all ready to go, I just
need the addresses - again.  :-(

Sorry for any inconvenience!

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From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Intrested in some info
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:00:02 GMT
Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG

In a message dated Sun 26 Jul 92  7:00, Jvl@redorc.chi.il.us (system Operat
wrote:

 JO> does anyone have any specs and procedures in installing a pal/ntsc
 JO> switch in a
 JO> revision 4.5 motherboard? I have looked and looked for the jumper or
 JO> what have
 JO> you to modify for the switch with no luck.

When I decided to switch from PAL to NTSC because of the flickering, I used
a little PD prog that made the job for me. It's called SetDefaultMonitor
and kind of simulates the hardware solution. There are more of these
utilities in the PD, I guess they all do the job equally well. I have no
problems at all, and all screens are opened as NTSC screens now. If not,
the programs are newer ones that provide a way to configure their screen.
The great advantage is, I could always switch back to PAL without opening
my Amiga, if I wanted to (but definitely I don't! :-)

If you have problems (like I had some) switching by software, contact me,
I'll do my best to help you.

Anyway, I'd also be interested which is the magic jumper making the
decision on PAL or NTSC, flicker or not (less) flicker, Europe or States?  


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From: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin)
Subject: HELP!  HD LED Light not lighting ???
Summary: LED Light does not come on for HD access
Originator: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:06:51 GMT

Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Keywords:  Hard Drive LED Light


	It seems that my LED light is not functioning on
	Hard Disk access anymore. Does anybody know if this
	indicates something further is about to happen to 
	the Hard Disk or is this just the fact that the LED
	is burnt out.
	
	I do not know how long this has been ocurring but I
	just noticed today that the Green light wasn't flashing
	anymore.


thanks in advance . . . 



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From: gfm@gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: TrumpCard/ST157N problem
Date: 25 Jul 92 19:49:46 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation
Originator: gfm@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu


	Yes, this is a "please help" problem.. :)  I've been using a IVS
TrumpCard w/ WB1.3 and TCUtils 1.3G for a couple of years without trouble.
About 2 months ago I upgraded to 2.04 and TCUtils 2, and since I've been 
getting rare but annoying read errors on my hard disk... They didn't seem
to occur until I formatted the disk under 2.04's new FFS and used TCUtils to
do it (That is, it worked fine under 2.04 until I changed something by 
reformatting it)  I have two suspicions but don't know for sure what the
problem is...First..the max transfer default rate under TCUtils 2 is different
than that with TCUtils 1.3 (In fact its about twice as high..Could this be
wrong and cause the errors?)  or, I've heard of lots of people getting
read/write errors on floppies under 2.04, I havent had this trouble but
most of my floppies are still in old file system, so is it the new file system
that doesnt work quite right under 2.04 with older systems such as A500s?
The write/read errors are not really there, it seems, as retry'ing usually
works and they pop up unpredictably....Can anyone offer a suggestion as to
what the problem is and how I can fix it?

Please email to gfm@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you can help...
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Subject: HAM_IFF.ZIP
From: david.brown@grapevne.lrk.ar.us (David Brown) 
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: david.brown@grapevne.lrk.ar.us (David Brown) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The GrapeVine BBS *** N. Little Rock, AR *** (501) 753-8121

I tried to dl ham_iff.zip in the amiga hdwr section, but the board
replied "not found on disk!" Is this file on the board? if so, how can I
dl it?
                                                                                                             
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From: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Subject: Re: MIPS results: Which one is true ???
Reply-To: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:35:10 GMT

	Since computer companies use MIPS, atleast in marketing,
	is there a "standard" instructions that are used to get
	these figures? If there isn't a "standard", then it
	seems to me that most of people are cheated (although
	pure processor speed isn't a good meter for system performance,
	but anyway). If someone has any facts about measuring
	MIPS numbers, I would be happy to see them.
	Thanks in advance,

	- Janne











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From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:50:35 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.

If you can't buy 2.04 in the store, mail order it...

What a concept?

Thom
From: eastwood@inline (David Eastwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Green/Purple screen on boot... help!
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:25:06 GMT


A friend's A500 was moved last weekend to a new home. After hooking
everything up again, it failed to boot; blinking power light and 
screen alternating between green and purple are the most noticeable
symptoms. I haven't had a chance to look at it myself yet, but I thought
it worth enquiring here whether this is something easily identifiable.

System is an original A500 + A501, with a Supra 500XP and Sony 1311
monitor, 2.04 ROMs. The obvious thing to try next is unhooking the
hard drive and trying a floppy boot - any other clues would be
gratefully received. This may be an FAQ, but if it is, I've FTA.
(Forgotten The Answer)

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From: jvl@redorc.chi.il.us (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Intrested in some info
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:19:36 GMT
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

does anyone have any specs and procedures in installing a pal/ntsc switch in a
revision 4.5 motherboard? I have looked and looked for the jumper or what have
you to modify for the switch with no luck.

If you have and information it would greatly be appreciated. Please email me on
the subject!

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From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Xebec SCSI Controller and 2.04
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:42:36 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

In article <1992Jul30.075127.29184@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dweinste@gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Weinstein) writes:
>We have an Amiga 1000 ("New To Us" :-) ), with 2.5 meg of memory (mostly
>in a MAXImega box), and a Xebec SCSI controller and 20 meg SCSI drive.
>
>The Xebec software is 1.2, (and won't format FFS), but runs just fine
>as a formatted drive under 1.3.
>
>Questions:
>
>   (1) Has anyone gotten this controller (it uses a scsi.device driver)
>       to format FFS manually? (The supplied software does not do anything
>       but OFS, and since it uses its own programs [i.e. scsimount] rather
>       than the more recent HDToolBox, I'm not sure if it will format
>       from the CLI)

Have you tried this from the cli:

	format drive <deviceName> name <name> FFS

(I'm away from my Amiga, but I beleive the syntax is correct)

You will be instructed to insert a disk, just hit return and it should
do an AmigaDos format.

In my case, the device name is dh0: and name is dh0.  I'm using the Spartan
interface and device driver.  There is a section in my mountlist for
dh0: which also calls out the fast file system and the spartan device
driver, and other things

Hope this helps...


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From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: MIPS results: Which one is true ???
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:55:03 GMT

In <33228@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>Lets just say that the 68040 is *very* fast.  The 68030 is fast (as is the
>68020 at the same clock rate unless you add the external MMU) and the 68000
>is rather slow (when put beside these others).

Now compare it to an Apple-II with a 10MHz 6502 clone built in ECL with
80ns static RAM....

Regards,
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From: gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
Subject: Re: Sparc coprocessors
Keywords: coprocessors, sparc, bridgeboard
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:01:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.090519.664@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
>Doesn't the Sparc take a bit of a performance hit, running through the
>ISA bus?

Why?  It is literally a computer on a card.  The only thing that it gets
from the PC is mouse and keyboard info, plus a little bit more.  It
is pretty much independent of the PC otherwise.
-Ralph

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