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From: commike@lgc.com (Alan Commike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: added 2nd hd - lockup on boot!
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:43:40 GMT
Organization: Landmark Graphics Corp., Houston, Tx


A2000, 2091 controller. 


I added a second hd to the my machine. I was able to format and partition
it just fine. When i rebooted, the machine now locks up in the middle of
the boot sequence. 


Anyone seen anything similar to this? The 2091 is 2 - 3 years old. 


thanks,

	...alan

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! A2091 Maxtor 213 going crazy!
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 00:14:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I suspect my A2091 has totally lost all control... Whenever I boot up, it's
>VERY intent on reading its own information to the point where it takes
>forever to load amigdos. It keeps reading something (who knows what) for about
>3-4 minutes.  This happens no matter what I boot off of - if the controller
>is hooked to the drive, it does this.
>
>After a few minutes it seems to be back to normal.
>
>I have an A2000 (duh) w/ a 30mhz 030 and 8 megs 32-bit ram, maxtor 213(sy?)
>SCSI disk and I'm running 2.04.  Like I said, any amigados disk I boot of of
>does this (the hard disk starts reading like crazy).  Any ideas GREATLY
>appreciated, this is driving me nuts.

Sounds like your drive keeps needing validated and ADOS is validating it
during startup.  Is there no requester saying so?  Is there a program
leaving a file open on your computer when you turn it off?

Just a thought.

>/-------------------------------\
>|Amiga and Unix hacker for hire.|
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>| mike@turing.org  Mike Chapman |
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>
>disclaimer: my views are not mine


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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiprocessing
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:23:39 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov12.212431.25144@news.uit.no> terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:

>"Multiprocessing" in double quotes is certainly the right way to write it.
>I belive that I've read about this board for the Mac and what it does isn't
>really multiprosessing.

It's real multiprocessing, sure.  It's loosely coupled multiprocessing, in
practice.  In a loosely coupled system, you have any number of functionally 
independent CPUs that can communicate via some kind of network.  In this
Mac thing, they're using the NuBus as the network, but any network could be
used.  

Most people think of tightly coupled multiprocessing when they think of
multiprocesing.  In such a system, you have several CPUs clustered on the
same main bus (the generally each need a private cache, hopefully snooped
with copyback, for any decent efficiency).  An intermediate form of 
multiprocessing is firmly coupled multiprocessing, where you have processors
that can share a bus, but also have their own private memory bus.  Such a
system shares characteristics of either loose or tightly coupled systems,
and may actually behave as either, though not necesssarily well.

>It is an expansion card with a 68040 on it which runs totally independent 
>of the host. It's more like having a machine in the machine, than real
>multiprocessing.

If the satellite '040 can access other NuBus addressable resources, this is
basically a card that can support firmly coupled multiprocessing.  Of course,
it's a snap to configure such a card for loose multiprocessing using the 
pre-existing Mac networking model.  It's lots of work to get any tighter than
that, not likely something a 3rd party is going to do.

>Want real multiprocesing?
>hmmm.... what happened to all the talk about Transputer cards?

A Transputer is really just a CPU with some built-in serial links designed to
efficiently support loose multiprocessing.  The first generations of 
transputers weren't all that interesting.  The new ones, on the other hand,
are.  The main reason you'd want a Transputer rather than an '040 or some
other CPU with peripheral links is that the new Transputer links are very
efficient.  They're fast, you get several per CPU (so rather than some linear
network, which can get overloaded in passing messages, you build some
N-cubic structure of interconnected processors), and they're now packet
switched with automatic routing.  Pretty cool stuff, though most of the 
multiprocessing work being done in OSs (Sun, supposedly OS/2 and Windows NT,
AT&T UNIX, etc) is oriented toward fully symmetric multiprocessing in a 
tightly coupled system.
-- 
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From: boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiprocessing
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:40:16 GMT

In <1992Nov7.211453.21687@ultb.isc.rit.edu> snm6394@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.N. Mozumder ) writes:

>To folks at CBM:

>Are there any plans for a multiprocessing or RISC based Amiga?  My last
>rendering took 25 hours on Lightwave 3-D on a 030/882-25 MHz Amiga for

	[ ray tracing stuff cut out]

>multiprocessing?  Radius has such boards for 68040 multiprocessing on
>Macintoshes.  Already maximum performance on the macintosh has exceeded
>the Amigas in ray tracing with the Radius boards.  Help us videographers
>out here.  25 hours is a whole day of not doing work on the computer.

	But see ... on an AMIGA it's not a whole day without doing 
	work on the computer.  We can multitask unlike the MAC.



>Just a few thoughts from a bored videographer.

>Bobby Mozumder
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:13:31 GMT

In article <1936@vall.dsv.su.se> matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
>3. Does the lovely 72Hz mode 800x600 flicker, using an A4000
>   together with a multisync monitor. (I won't tell you what that
>   mode does to my A3000's flicker fixer.)

   It depends entirely on the monitor.  The Super72 800x600 mode is interlaced
at 36Hz, which is a higher frequency than the 30Hz interlacing of NTSC, but
most multisync monitors use very light phosphors which will make the Super72
800x600 mode appear to flicker more than NTSC interlaced on a C- 1084 monitor
(which uses medium phosphors).  On my AOC monitor, the flicker in Super72
800x600 is almost intolerable.

>=========================================================
>=  Regards  =  EMail:              =  1280x512x256000+  =
>=  Mattias  =  matt-dah@dsv.su.se  =  I love it.        =
>=========================================================

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From: spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA monitors/ IDEK MF series ????
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:49:03 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <1992Nov6.232222.27390@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
> 
> Ok.  Here are the monitors that I know will sync down to 15KHz:
> 
> Sony 1302
Out of Production & hard to find.

> Sony multimedia monitor

> Mitsubishi DiamonScan (old 14")
Out of Production & hard to find



> IDEK MF5017 (17")
> IDEK MF5021 (21")


> Princeton Ultra 1600
> Princeton Ultra 1400

Company went out of business. The mail order liquidators (C.O.M.B, etc )
had some but I think they are sold out of them. And good luck getting
spare parts & warranty work for a monitor put out by a dead company.


> Mitsubishi ProScan (23" +)
> 
> I'm sure that there are more, but I don't know what they are.
> I have many questions regarding all of these monitors still.  I'm trying
> to amass data concerning them, and I will repost a summary.
> The questions I have are:  who has these monitors?  What are your
> opinions?  I want a monitor 16" or larger, know of any more?  What is
> the dot pitch like?  What are the exact scan rates (horiz, vert)?
> Microprocessor controlled? How heavy (remember, over 70lbs requires
> special shipping)?
> 
> If you have answers to any of these questions, please forward them to
> me via email, and I will incorporate it into my list.  I'd really like
> to know how sharp the displays are as well.  I'm used to ultra
> crisp displays at work, but when I see PC monitors, I feel they are sorely
> lacking in quality (with the exception of Sony).


                              Scott Corley

spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 15:30:47 CET
From: <K3023E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hardware Questions.

Hi Folks.
...
Some questions about A4000 Monitors & other stuff...:
...
1. Would a NEC 3FG/4FG be a good monitor for th a4000, I mean would it be able
   to display *ALL* the resolutions?
   As far as I know it syncs down to 28khz so what would happen with the 'old'
   GFX Modes which, are 15.6khz or so?
   ---> What a terrible pity the GREAT NEC 3D is out of production |||
...
2. Do the AGA custom chips run at the good old7.14Mhz? And the Chip-Ram?
...
3. I hear a lot of people complain bout the IDE Controller. Is it really that
   bad, I mean is it true that the CPU is completely busy with data transfer
   when having a HD-Access?
   So, would a relative multitasking still be granted when, as example, I am
   downloading something at 14.4k baud onto the HD?
   Is it true that Commodore will release a Zorro III SCSI II Controller in
   January?
...
4. I would like to repeat my quest for the *new* Hardware Reference Manual at
   this point. Someone heard about it lately?
...
5. I would still sell my mother for a portable a600HD.
...
Thanx, Werner at Austria LInz JK University.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 05:01:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.193743.7172@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu
(Martin Black) writes:

>>So I'm much much happier with this new monitor, but there is just one
>>feature of my old monitor that I miss.  The old C= monitor had both RGB
>>and composite video inputs.  The new one lacks composite video inputs.
>>I liked the video input because then I could use the same monitor as a
>>TV set by attaching it to my VCR.

>Well Any genlock should work.  Just bring up a black screen on your amiga,
>and you will be able just amiga m to it.  Of course they are like $200.

Another alternative is a Sony or Mitsubishi multiscanning monitor with
RGB input. Not exactly cost effective, but the best of both worlds.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Subject: Monitor for an A3000
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:03:03 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

My wife just bought an A3000 through the Creative Computers fire sale.
Now we have to go shopping for a multisync monitor.  Up to now we've
pretty much shunned the pc-clone market, so I'm a bit ignorant of the
ins and out of such monitors.  [Well, more than a bit.  These questions
sound pretty dumb :-) ]

The socket on the back of the computer is labelled "31 khz".  Must the
monitor go at most this fast or at least this fast?

The dot pitch of a monitor is often quoted as part of its specs.  Is this
just a measure of how sharp the picture is, or does it really figure into
the number of pixels per line it can display?

Should we get a monitor with internal deinterlacing, or is this made
redundant by the computer's display enhancer?

The local pc-clone warehouse mainly sells Viewsonics.  Can anyone recommend
a particular model?  My wife wants at least a 14" model.

AdvThanksThanksThanksThanksThanksance
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University of Kentucky                                         +1 606 257 2975
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a huge cauldren of fire-breathing dragons."  "And they call this a par three?"
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:18:36 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> In article <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> > In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> >> Before the A1200 was officially announced in Europe someone
> >> had posted specs about the 1200 which were not official. In that
> >> post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the 
> >> new 1.76M floppy.
> > 
> > It has an 880Kb floppy.
>             ^^^^^
> Thats too bad, i guess i won't be getting a A1200!  Why is it that Commodore
> is the only computer manufacturer who doesn't have a HD floppy as its
> least common denominator? (granted I don't know about Atari but then again,
> they don't really count :)) I mean its bad enough that commodore came out 
> with the 2 speed kludge so late but now they are still not making it standard?
> A HD floppy should be standard on all Amigas introduced since the 3000! I 
> probably wouldn't have bought the 3000 if I didn't think that Commodore would
> have a HD floppy RSN (of course that was in Jan 1991) and look at what 
> happened. Its these little everyday things that make a BIG deal to people.
> How much room does a super hires interlaced ham8 pic take up? Can't move
> many of those between machines if any at all on one floppy!  Oh well, just
> my .02 worth, I just wanted you guys to know that even though you might not
> lose a 'lot' of sales because of that, you have lost SOME, namely mine!
> Good job on the 4000 though! :-)
> and AmigaDOS 3.0!

Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return.  I'll admit
that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.

Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:18913 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:28390
From: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 5 Nov 1992 09:29:49 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

In article <1d9i8gINN9i7@mozz.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>	I'm preparing myself for 2 things, TAX and SPEND.  I figure it won't
>   take Congress and their newly elected buddy to long before they start
>   raising everybodies income tax, along with every other type of tax that
>   they can get there hands on or create.  Look for national gun control 
>   also, one more freedom down the drain.
>

TAX and SPEND is infinitely better than the TAX and BORROW that we had 
under Reagan and Bush.  Keep in mind that our Federal Deficit every year is
nearly equal to the intrest that we have to pay on the debt.  Maybe you should
blame the administration that brought about the debt and not the one that's
going to take the responsibility to do something about it.
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Wanted: CD-ROM solution
Keywords: CD-ROM
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:57:03 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov4.090541.27808@sunbim.be> accs1@bagheera.mumath writes:
> Is there any possibility to connect a CD-ROM drive to my A2000-A. I got
> the A2090 HD controller and I'm thinking of a solution using the SCSI port.
> Which CD-ROM drive is the best to take and which special driver software
> is needed. Will it recognize the currently available CDs for the PC world?

Did you get a A2090 or a A2091?  You need to SCSI support on the A2091
to really get anywhere.  There is software available that will work with
the High Sierra/ISO CD ROM formats, but be warned that many "PC Compatible"
CDROM packages use non-standard formats or require a special reader/search
program to access the data, which may only be available for the PC...

-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.games
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: DigiPrint PC Joystick/Mouse Adaptor
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:35:10 GMT

I just noticed the DigiPrint ad in the November issue of AC. Has
anyone had any experience with either their IBM analog joystick
or bus mouse adaptors? For $9.95 + $3.00 S&H, these look like
amazing deals if they function properly.
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:08:36 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Nov4.143513.17319@decuac.dec.com> bell@ufp.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>Hi.  I got the A1200.gif, and I notice that the A1200 keyboard is
>different from my A500 by two keys.  

European keyboards (for all those accented characters) have these two
extra keys standard. Perhaps they chose in manufacturing to build only
one sort of keyboard, so that the US version now gets two white/empty
keys? I think, it's this way at least with the A600, perhaps the same
with the A1200. (Didn't see US production units yet, and won't for some
time, I assume. :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ad960@yfn.ysu.edu (Thomas Smith)
Subject: Why won't my printer work?
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:41:05 GMT


    Well, let me update you on my situation. First, I just 
replaced my old motherboard in my 2000 to a rev. 6.3E(i think),
and I'm running a Supra2000 Ram card with two megs, a GVP Series
II wo/ 0 expanded mem on the controller, a 105meg Quantum, and
a 
Supra internal modem, and a nx-1000c printer. The problem I'm 
having is that while operating the system(autobooting form HD)
I cannot get any of my WPs, Paint, and other programs with print
options to print. This is weird because, about a week ago I could
dump stuff to the printer but, I could only get the generic 
driver to work, and graphics wouldn't print. Now, I get an error
message, "Can't open printer.device." The printer device is 
still in the devs dir; and I've even replaced it with others I
found on floppies. This happens with any driver I use that is
compatable with my printer. One assumption is that there may
be some compatability problem with the GVP controller and the 
new motherboard; because, for instance, I booted a WP from 
floppy and the printer worked. Oh, btw this is all under 1.3.
       I was told by the dealer who installed the new mother
board, who by no means had much knowledge of the 1.3 system,
and is a authorized CBM dealer, this gripe in a latter post).
The dealer told me in other words that he was clueless, and
that the solution to my problem would be to upgrade to 2.0.
	This whole thing is really p---ing me off. I had
to wait over 6 months to get my motherboard replaced, and
now I can't even print out a simple letter for my 
customers.

Thomas, (getting real peaved with the Amiga and CBM)
-- 
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From: dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt)
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 13:00:23 +0200
Organization: HAL (ECG089)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: 50MHz 68040 BSC Accelerator system
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.8m

We are a bsc dealer (not active). When we saw this folder the first
time on the Amiga Exhibition in Nov. '91 in Cologne we told bsc that
there was a mistake. Since we are delveloping ourselves using the
68040 I can say that it is *not* possible and due to our information
it will *not* be possible to use a higher external clock rate then
33Mhz. So they said to us that these boards are 25Mhz boards, #BUT#
they are *NOT* developed by bsc. They only sell them. I don't know
whether current folders have been corrected.

so long

Ludwig

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From: s2z@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 1084 & A1200? What will I see?
Date: 6 Nov 92 09:20:50 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I was wondering ....

If I get an A1200 and hook it up to my 1084 (assuming that can be done),
what will be the results? My guess is that I'll be able display the 
regular 320 or 640 by 200 screens with the 256 or HAM8 modes. And the
320 or 640 by 400 screens will flicker. But what about the "non-flickering"
modes and all the other ones? WIll they not show up, will the monitor
explode, what? Just wondering so I can decide the "keep my 1084 for awhile"
vs. "shell out for a multisync" argument.

thanks,
Aaron

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