From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Problems with the Emplant Board
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:08:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: cryo.jdrew.0gwg
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26 beta (Oct 19 1992)


In <trb3.721489238@Ra.MsState.Edu>, trb3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Tony R. Boutwell) writes:
> o.k.    I installed the board.....one of the appletalk ports were slightly off
> alignment...(no biggie) the board did take some work to squeeze it in....
> I did not have the appropriate battery to put in it (so) I installed it without
> one....(which could be my problem?)......put everything back together. Placed my
> Emplant disk on the old hardrive (along with all the libs,drivers, etc.) and
> ran it....(also you have to copy the startup off the disk to your startup sequence)
> when I ran it it asked for the disk (I just cancled) the requester and it went into the beginning screen where you set every thing up....I set everything up except the
> 
> mass storage: <----did nothing when selected
> Devices: <---------also did nothing when selected
> 
> I loaded the rom image....I loaded te amiga video driver......
> when I tried change the memory in MEMORY OPTIONS ....all
> of the buttons ---> 16-bit had (0K)   32-bit had (0K)  CHIP (0K)  RANGER (0K)
> out of all of the memory buttons
> only CHIP would let me change it...
> it would go from a range of 0-1280K
> 
> NOW my system has 10 megs of mem...2 chip and 8 fast
> so it seams like it not "seeing" the rest of my memory??? so when I tried to run it, it would just do nothing....
> 
> In the memory section it also say above the rest of the stuff
> that all my memory is at 0k except for chip-->1545856
> and free system memory ---->which is the same as above 1545856
> 
> NOTICE:when I put it in the back ground and check the workbech status bar it
> says I have 1597008 graphics mem and 7006520 other mem.....SO it is there even
> when the emplant setup is running....??? ya got me on this one.....
> 
> HEY JIM DREW....any ideas on whats the problem????
> 
> otherwise the converter software seems real nice for sybil.
> 
> Stuck until I get some help,
>                       TONY BOUTWELL
Well, here is the story....
 
With some wonderful luck, the read.me file never made it to the copies
from the masters used at the duplication place...so, here is what you need
to know.
 
IF YOU CAN MAP YOUR MEMORY IN THE 24 BIT AREA ($200000-$800000) DO IT!
The MAC II/x/cx can *not* recognize memory outside of the 24 bit
boundries.  We have included a program (found in the C: directory on the
EMPLANT Emulation disk) called "lowmap".  This sets up the MMU tables to
map the high memory (like found in the A3000) to the 24 address areas.
 
Once you run this program, everything should work just fine...
 
Now, on another note... we are upgrading software on an (what seems like
hourly) daily basis, making things faster, smoother, and more user
friendly.  There have been two major upgrades in the last two days.  These
upgrades can be obtained via our support BBS.  If someone would like to
put these on FTP sites, be my guest, as I do not have access to such
services (and I am a bit busy too!).
 
Yes, there is a problem with the hard drive support, and yes, it has been
disabled... It seems that our emulation does not get along with Seagate
hard drives (reguardless of what controller it is connected to).  We have
a few *irrate* customers that have garbage for hard drive data.  We
appologize for that, and are trying to fix the problem ASAP.  However,
until it is fixed, we have disabled the MASS STORAGE/DEVICES gadgets. 
Quantam & Rodime drives (what we use) have no problems that we have seen,
but I do not want anymore bad news about someone losing their data....I
really feel bad about it...


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
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