HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: justin@hybris.UUCP (Justin Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Backing up on a VCR
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:16:26 CST
Organization: FEC Software Programmers, INC.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

In article <1993Jan4.021119.9348@fy.chalmers.se> f92anha@fy.chalmers.se (Anders Hammarqvist) writes:
>In article <3JAN199318154970@md2.huji.ac.il> robi@md2.huji.ac.il (Dr. Wartenfeld Robi) writes:
>>
>>     Hello.
>>  I once saw some instructions on building an interface whuch allows
>>connecting the amiga parallel port to a Video Cassette recorde and backing up
>>the hard disk to the VCR.  If anyone has those instructions please send a
>>copy to me.
>>     Thanks.
>>        Robi.
>
>I would also appreciate a copy, or an FTP site...
>
>Tnx, Anders.

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I would also like to get ahold of this!!  Please post the location of this
information/file to the net!!

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Hybris.UUCP  Amiga500  9600 baud      UUCP:  ..mmedia!hybris!justin
INET:  br365@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu



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From: reynard@romeo.caltech.edu (Reynard, Gregory J.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Recording animations to tape in real time
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:30 PDT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: romeo.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

    At the "World of Commodore" expo in Pasadena, I saw a board called "Digital
EditMaster", made by Digital Micronics.  They claim that it could output
animation or video to tape at 30fps in "lossless" mode(3:1 JPEG compression).
This would mean you no longer need to record one frame at a time - easier on 
your VTR, and you don't need a single frame capable VTR anymore.
The bottleneck seemed to be getting a hard-drive and SCSI controller that could
keep up (I think they said it had to be able to move ~10 Mb/sec).  They claimed
that there are such drives and controllers for the Amiga.
    If anyone is using this board or a similar setup in such a fashion,
I'd really like to hear about your experiences with it, as well as what kind
of SCSI controller and what kind of hard drive you are using.  Thanks.

Greg

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From: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM (Hans Hrasna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI PHASE ERROR using Archive 2150S
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:19:11 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: castlerock.east.sun.com

In article 8u1@caleb.UUCP, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>Hello,
>       I have been using an Archive 2150S tape drive with my Amiga 2000 /
>GVP 33 MHZ Combo board.  I'm using BTN v2.1 and tar to do backups.  My
>problem is "random" but increasingly frequent SCSI PHASE ERRORs which
>cause tar to abort the backup operations. 
*stuff deleted*
>Anyone out there have any helpful suggestions?

I have the same problem with my Archive 2150 and GVP controller... with Quarterback
5.03 and AmiBack 2.0f ... 

I'd be very interested if anyone has any answers/suggestions... I have 
version -03 ROMs on my 2150.

	-Hans
From: tblanchot@vnet.ibm.com (Thierry BLANCHOT)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:13:20 FWT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200 IDE drive
Reply-To: tblanchot@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views only|
News-Software: Usenet 3.1

For those who may still wonder which drive to buy for their 1200, I
have successfully installed a 85MB Conner Peripherals drive in my 1200
and it works perfectly well, even with very large data files (800K+).
If you have more questions, e-mail me (I'm not reading regularly
c.s.a.hardware )...

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*    Thierry BLANCHOT  tblanchot@vnet.ibm.com   A1200 HD 80MB        *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: HELP, Please: The mysterious A1200
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:57:36 GMT

marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold) writes:

>I am unaware what cables come with the 1960 of NEC 4D.
>No monitor cables come with the A1200.  A monitor cable came with my
>Mitsubishi Diamondscan 1381A.  The input is a small plug of THREE rows of
>pins.  What you need (and this is verified in the A1200 instructions) is
>the A1200 DB-23 --> multisync adaptor available from your C= dealer.
>But be prepared to get raped on the pricing.  My dealer wanted $35 for the
>stupid thing.

Yeah.  $35 for something that was supposed to come with the computer in the 
first place, according to the manual.  Can we say "rip off"?

Not that it's a problem for me at present, as I can't afford a new monitor.
Will I be the only new 1200 owner using a 1080? :)  (yep, 1080.  Not 1084)

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From: THX1138@cup.portal.com (William Tony Leventry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP crap
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 20:32:10 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan10.235653.9061@samba.oit.unc.edu>


>Not a flame, but a fact that invalidates your whole argument:  Amazing
>Computing gave the award to GVP, not Amiga World.  (which I hate becasue
>of the way every issue talks about mostly video and their 'games' issue
>was the crappiest ever!! but have a subscription cause they are the best of
>the worst to subscribe to in USA w/o heavy costs.)
>
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You are correct8^)...

I don't think it invalidates anything tho. AmigaWorld Feb. 93, contains SEVEN
full page color ads for GVP. It will not do an unbiased head to head 
comparison of 040 boards. I say the Amiga community deserves better!

Can you imagine the impression one gets of the Amiga if he/she were to look
to this magazine for information?

Sorry folks, I realize this dosen't belong in hardware.
 
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Commodore: World leader in high end home computer technology! 8^D
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From: n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (BarryB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum 120 LPS a flawed drive?
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:29:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1993Jan7.002908.17481
Organization: Western Washington University

I've been thinking about buying a Quantum 120 LPS (there are still
places selling them!) for my A3000.  But now I'm not sure.  What
is the deal with this drive?  I have seen several people on usenet
having the *same* problem with the drive:  "It just locks up and
I have to reboot".  Why was this drive discontinued so quickly?
It seems odd to me since it was such a hot seller.  I have never
once seen a bad comment about the 240 LPS which is still widely
available.

-BarryB
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: atul@Cadence.COM (Atul Srinivasan)
Subject: Cannot write to hard drive. HELP
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:17:41 GMT

Hello,
	Recently I seem to have lost the ability to write
to my hard drive. My setup is as follows.

A2000
GVP Impact Series 2 controller
Quantum 105 drive (about 4 years old)

The problem is as follows.
Reading from the hard drive is all right, as far as I can tell.
No data seems to be corrupted.
However whenever I try to write to the drive, the write does not
take place.
I can create a directory, warm reboot, and the directory is not there.
Similarly, when I do a recursive copy, the copy fails a few files into
the copy.


I have also started having erratic behaviour with both internal and
external floppies. Read write errors on previously good disks. Usually
on the same track (but I forget the track number)

These two problems occurred together, and quite suddenly.

The one amiga place I called suggestd the Quantum is the problem.
I'm not sure, since I have not had any read/write errors with it
at all, in fours years of operation. 

Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated.  (Any chance the
CIA's are the problem ?)

please email atul@cadence.COM

Atul
atul@cadence.COM
From: jperkski@kentcomm.UUCP (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  SCSI PHASE ERROR using Archive 2150S
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:23:13 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1ik9hvINNjf6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> hans@castlerock.East.Sun.COM (Hans Hrasna) writes:
>In article 8u1@caleb.UUCP, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>>Hello,
>>       I have been using an Archive 2150S tape drive with my Amiga 2000 /
>>GVP 33 MHZ Combo board.  I'm using BTN v2.1 and tar to do backups.  My
>>problem is "random" but increasingly frequent SCSI PHASE ERRORs which
>>cause tar to abort the backup operations.
>*stuff deleted*
>>Anyone out there have any helpful suggestions?
>
>I have the same problem with my Archive 2150 and GVP controller... with Quarterback
>5.03 and AmiBack 2.0f ...
>
>I'd be very interested if anyone has any answers/suggestions... I have
>version -03 ROMs on my 2150.
>
>	-Hans
>

 Use the command GVPSCSICTRL <unit #> DCOFF and see if it helps. If I don't have
this command in my user-startup my drive will lock up on Ami-Back and QB 5.03.

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______________________________________________________
 (Jim Perkowski) kentcomm!jperkski@legend.akron.oh.us

              Where am I when I need me!?
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From: I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How does 2.04 perform on A500???????????????????
Date: 31 Dec 92 09:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
Originator: n08dp@tuda


From what I've seen, WB2.04 performs a little slowly on your bog standard Amiga.

If you want to use it seriously, I think a processor accelerator is a good idea.

If WB3.0 becomes available, you'll DEFINITELY need a faster machine.

Happy New Year Everybody!

								Ian A. Inman.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Subject: Re: M68000 at 14kHZ
Keywords: M68000 turbo
Reply-To: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:20:09 GMT


	I think you don't want to run the 68k at 14kHz, as
	the standard clockspeed is 7.14MHz :)

	- Janne
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From: cs_e365@ceres (James Simmonds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ***HELP ME!*** HDToolBox problems...
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:43:16 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

x90townsen12@gw.wmich.edu writes:
: I have been attempting to use the HDToolBox program with my Quantum 100MB
: hard drive but everytime I run the program I get a "Driver not installed"
: error message.  What devices are supposed to be located in the devs drawer?
: I currently have gvpscsi.amhd and asdg.vdisk.device in there among the other
: standard devices.  Is something missing?  If you have any idea why I get this
: error could you please send me some e-mail?  Thanks!

 As it happens, in this months Amiga Shopper (U.K) the same question is asked.
 Their reply (if I remember correctly) was that you need to set...

 DEVICE=yourdevice.driver
 
 in the HDToolBox programs info (icon).
 I think its DEVICE, possibly DRIVER? Look in the manual!!?

 I'll check if this is right, if not I'll post their exact answer.


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BCS2 Computer Science
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Thermal Printing
From: dmaster@amigans.gen.nz (Angus Cotton)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 22:55:17 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

If anybody out there in the big techniqual (Sp?) world knows how to hook 
up an Amiga 500 to a Sharp PA-1000 thermal printer I would be most 
greatful. The printer has a serial port (RS-232C) on it's underside, but 
is not the same as the Amiga serial port. The manual doesn't say naything 
about this port apart for that it's there.

Thanks In Advance.....

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dmaster@amigans.gen.nz (Angus Cotton)
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitors, monitors and 5D!!
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:51:15 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities) writes:
> 2) How much should I expect to pay for an ex-demo Multisync 5D?
> (Either in A$ or US$)

	My dealer told me last year that a company was selling refurbished
5D's for $1300 (US) each.

                                                        Dan

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From: heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Is there an experimenting board
Date: 10 Jan 93 09:27:35 GMT
Distribution: adsp
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <3757@cbmehq.esco.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>The german company Edotronik in Muenchen offers a Zorro II board with
>autoconfiguration logic. They are on the net. Contact
>   heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org

Even better: Contact:

    manfred@edomdo.adsp.sub.org

or send a fax or a letter to

    Edotronik GmbH
    St.Veit-Str. 70
    8000 Muenchen 80
    Germany

    FAX +49 89 402293


I'm into SW and HW, not into prices, you know ...

>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...

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FAX +49 89 850 51 25 / TEL +49 89 850 25 20 (HOME!&VOICE, sometimes...)
From: progers@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Mythic Lion Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga 2000 dead
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:05:21 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

OK, here's the story.  After much waiting I got my derringer 030 from CSA and
tried to pop it in my 2000.  Unfortuantely, there was a slight conflict with
my megachip 2000 board which occupies the same bit of space.  I insulated the
two boards so they wouldn't touch and thought I had the deringer seated on
an angle.  Hit the power....and nothing.  Black screen, hard drives turned
on and clicked enough to say they were being checked but no bootup.  A few
phone calls and CSA told me to space the derringer on two sockets and this 
would allow it to clear my megachip and my power supply.  It took forever 
to order the sockets and they're on the way.

So now we got act two:  a friend comes over with some new games, so I pop the
68000 off the derringer and back into its socket.  Hit the power.... and
nothing.   Black screen, hard drives turned on... no boot up.  Now I don't
want to start popping the 68000 in and out a million times to test things 
because the pins are already starting to bend, but I have a very sinking
sensation that something is fried.  My HD controller seems fine, and it 
seems like more than video since there is no boot up.  If it's just my 
68000, that's fine, I've got another coming with my two sockets to meet the
minimum order, but I don't think I'm that lucky.  So if anyone understands
these symptoms a letter or reply would be much appreciated so I can 
budget my life around the repairs.

                                  -Pat
From: johnr@rowe.adsp.sub.org (John Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: PAL DCTV doesn't seem to work on A4000s!!
Date: 8 Jan 93 02:06:56 GMT
Organization: John Rowe 3D Graphics & Animation
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

After a long wait for my A4000 to arrive, and being much relieved during this
period to see the many posts here and there attesting to the fact that DCTVs
work fine on A4000s, now that it's finally here my PAL DCTV won't work with
it!  Has anyone out there got a PAL DCTV to work properly with an A4000!?
                                ^^^
Here are the symptoms:

The DCTV will pass a standard PAL or NTSC screen through and spit out a
standard composite image fine; in this case, as you would expect, the DCTV
remains inert, and merely passes the signal through and converts it to
composite.

Also understandably, if you try and display in an AGA screen mode (e.g. DBLPAL
or DBLNTSC) it sends the DCTV's composite display bezerk!

HOWEVER, when you display a DCTV image and line it up to the point where
DCTV normally displays it in all its glory, the composite display goes black!
Run DCTVPaint and the same thing happens as soon as any DCTV encoded image
appears - e.g. the gadget panel in DCTV Paint!!??

I spoke with another PAL DCTV owner here in Australia yesterday who had also
just received his A4000 and he found exactly the same problem with his DCTV!

DO ANY PAL DCTVs WORK WITH A4000s!!??  8-(

I also have another more minor problem with my dctv.  It seems that the pass-
through connector on it has never worked correctly.  Previously I was using it
on my A3000 along with a 1950 multisync and so never had cause to use the pass
-through.  Now, due to the single video port on the A4000, I have to plug my
1950 into the dctv's pass-through.  The pass-through seems to somehow alter
the video signal with the net result being that the 1950 shows a much darker
display with noticable thin vertical banding and a purple stain down the right
hand side of the screen.  1081 and 1084 monitors plugged into the pass-through
(with the A4000 displaying a standard HiRes Pal screen that they would normally
display without problem) seem to refuse to sync properly, with the screen
rolling and skewed.

This more minor problem seems to be a problem with my particular unit only.
As it is now out of warranty I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem
and if there is any easy way to fix it??

Can anyone shed any light (preferably of the pseudo-24bit composite type)
on either of these problems???

With apologies to Dire Straits "I want my, I want my, I want my DCTV!..."

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From: rmorgan@vsbbs.UUCP (RONALD MORGAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How to put a CLock in A1200
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:23:31 PST
Organization: BBS

You are missing the point!  The point is that CBM did not put a frigging clock
on their new "Flag-ship" model.  I have owned CBM products since the PET, and
CBM never ceases to amaze me with their stupidity.  If brains were dynamite,
CBM could not blow it's nose!

     "Commodore, the company you love to hate"

Ronald Morgan                      >>>LIGHT FIGHTER<<<
HHC 3-9 INF
Ft. Ord CA 93941           UUCP:  vsbbs!rmorgan@hotcity.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: saunderb@unvax.union.edu (Breton N. Saunders)
Subject: Advice on monitor for A4000
Summary: Trying to buy a monitor for an Amiga A4000
Keywords: A4000
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:39:59 GMT

	I have just bought an A4000, and I need a monitor that will display ALL of its modes.  This means that the monitor will be able to sync down to 15.0 khz horizontal scan rate, and up to at least 31.4 khz horizontal scan rate.  Any advice would be greatly apperciated, since I am using an old 1084 monitor right now, and it does'nt look that good.

				-Brett Saunders
				 saunderb@unvax.union.edu
From: x90townsen12@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: ***HELP ME!*** HDToolBox problems...
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:03:44 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I have been attempting to use the HDToolBox program with my Quantum 100MB
hard drive but everytime I run the program I get a "Driver not installed"
error message.  What devices are supposed to be located in the devs drawer?
I currently have gvpscsi.amhd and asdg.vdisk.device in there among the other
standard devices.  Is something missing?  If you have any idea why I get this
error could you please send me some e-mail?  Thanks!

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