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From: whitley@dallas.sil.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Syquest Drive unrecognized
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:22:55 CST
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center

We have a Toaster equipped A2000 with a GVP '030 accelarator.  We have a
non-removable hard drive and a Syquest removable media drive.  Whenever the
system boots, it is unaware of the sysquest until Fastprep is run.  Can
anyone help with some suggestions?

Rick Whitley            Whitley@a1.dallas.sil.org


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:57:25 -0500 
From: "Mark D. Schroeder" <ms70+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: automounting A1000?

I understand that 1.3 and 2.0 support automounting, but I have a friend
with a Starboard II on a 1000 and it doesn't automount.

I'm planning on building a SCSI controller for my machine, and I would
like it to automount. What specifications are there concerning automounting?

Thanks for any help,
?d
From: mk59200@cs.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Parity checking (was: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 12:07:12 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mustarastas.cs.tut.fi

In article <H0mXr*h41@dynam.adsp.sub.org> cbmehq!cbmswi!dynam!jmpor@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>In article <1davn7INNfhf@cs.tut.fi>, Kolkka Markku Olavi writes:
>> Also, parity checking doesn't _fix_ any memory errors, it only guarantees
>> that the machine will _crash_ when a memory error happens. Apparently some
>> people prefer this sort of behavior.
>
>with 10 bits you will be able to correct an 1 bit failure and detect a
>2 bits failure.

But that isn't parity, that's ECC. Besides, I believe that more than
2 check bits are needed for SECDED'ing a byte.

I have used a PC with parity checking, and I didn't find the total
system lock-up resulting from a parity check error very useful. Somebody
said it prevents storing erroneus data to a file, but what if you crash
during a disk write? You may get totally corrupted file system instead of
a single bit error!

--
	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@cc.tut.fi

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:06:58 GMT

In article <BxEyw0.Hoz@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree) writes:
>Dr Peter Kittel Germany (peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com) wrote:
>: 
>: Hmm, I always considered Agnus a male name. And I myself don't object to
>
>You considered wrong. Agnus is a female name and Angus is a male name.

Maybe things are different in NZ, but on this side of the moat, Agnus is always
male, and Agnes is female.

Just to confuse the issue further, the chip called Agnus is labled "Fat Lady"
on my A2000 motherboard...

Amiga trivia:

The chip now called Agnus (actually, Fat Agnus, then Super Agnus and now
Alice), used to be called Agnes in Commodore's official docs - at least, it
was on the A1000.  In the earliest days, as well as Agnes, we had Daphne (now
Denise) and Portia (now Paula).  Does anyone know why the names were changed?


-- 
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 - Regional support guy for PC's, Unix, and networks thereof.
 - But I'd rather be using an AMIGA!  Wouldn't you?
Find me in Mareeba, Australia (on the pointy bit in the northeast)
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: What is PCMIA?
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 07:29:21 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


PCMCIA == Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
 
This is a standard interface that provides for peripheral devices of al
er.. all types.  This standard is supposed to mean that modems, faxes,
LAN adapters, hard disks and other things will be available for your 
Amiga(and other computers) that are plug-compatible. This is sort of
the IBM world's equivalent to AUTOCONFIG(C= trademark).  The plug-n-Play
features make it virtually goof-proof and 'theoretically' you can 
plug/unplug the cards with power on and a running system with no damage.
 
The Association has two standards that cover PCMCIA:  PC Card Standard
(release 2.0), and Socket Services Interface specification.  I believe
they are located in Sunnyvale CA.
From: Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Archive Viper 2150S
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:25:53 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

In a message dated Fri  6 Nov 92 22:49, Cs91eeb@brunel.ac.uk (erik Bussink)
wrote:

 CB> I've also got a copy of the manual for the Viper, and you can have a
 CB> copy I also live near London ;-) Mail me your home address and I'll
send
 CB> you a copy.

why not just give them a call and ask them to send you one?  that's what i
did.  try dialing 800.227.6296.

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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Parity (Was Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:12:23 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> People who run without any Parity should also run without backups if they're
> THAT confident of the reliability of their systems ....

Bah. There's a *vast* difference between electronic chips and drive mechanics.
If you consider it such a dangerous problem, then I'm sure you never use
the Amiga operating system which completely lacks memory protection between
the applications.

I'll celebrate the day when I'll throw away much harddisks and replace them 
with something with not a single moving mechanical part in it. That day keeps 
comming closer and closer for every day that passes.

> > EDC would be even better however the cost can be prohibitive.
> 
> EDC??

Error Data Correction? Commonly used on these dam*ed harddisks that we are 
forced to live with, in order to be able to recover minor disk faults without 
the computer ever noticing. Bascially a method to encode data into the real 
data stream that makes it contain redundant information, so you can detect and 
restore faulty bits up a certain limit. If the disk fault is so severe that 
more bits are damaged than the EDC protocol is able to repair, the drive will 
notice and retry the read operation upto a certain limit. If that failes too, 
your luck just ran out.

                        _       .    __
    Roger Nordin     _ //      /!Net /est Bench
 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Subject: Is a refurbished 1950 monitor a good deal?
Reply-To: helge@cd.chalmers.se
Organization: Smith College
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:28:42 GMT

[This is a posting for a friend whose usenet feed is "read-only".  His 
 email address is helge@cd.chalmers.se.]

> The machines here can't post articles to comp.sys.amiga.xxx. I have been
> offered a cheap refurbished 1950 monitor from a local dealer. Now, could
> you do me a favor and ask in comp.sys.amiga.hardware or wherever appropriate
> if the guys there think it would be a smart thing to buy such a monitor.

-john
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From: Michael.Davis@f117.n207.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: He's dead, jim
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 06 Nov 92  22:57:00

Organization: City University, London                                      

From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)                                    


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware                                        

                                                                           

My (or rather my church's) A3000 has bit the dust just as it               

was about to be commissioned. The final step in the saga was               

installing 4M of SCRAM, bringing the total to 2M chip, 8M fast.            

                                                                           

Hi,
Have you removed that SCRAM and tried to reboot?  Before you do check and
doublecheck that the SCRAM is installed in the correct sockets, if they are
not the machine will not boot, matter of fact it acts just like you said. It
also will act that way with a bad SCRAM chip.


  Michael    //Amiga
  Davis     // Power
        \\ //
         \X/
 Only the AMIGA makes the Magic Happen.

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From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: IDE Master/Slave hassle
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:45:05 GMT
Organization: IDK/Frontec - System Design Group

jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
> >As george said, master/slave compatibility in the IDE world
> >is a can of worms, and it is or was especially bad in the early/cheap 2.5"
> >drives.

dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee) writes:
>  Two C= Engineers, and one Zenith worker have said this in the same week.
> Is anyone willing to post a list of compatible IDE drives or 
> cross-reference table of drives that will work properly in a master/slave
> setup?

I can't post a complete list, but I've got a small reference of how to
configure the jumpers on different Quantum ProDrives in a master/slave setup:

                              MASTER

		     |    A    |    B    |    C    |    D    |    E    |
		-----|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
		 A   | M:DS+SS | M:DS+DM | M:DS+SS | won't   | M:??    |
		     | S:none  | S:none  | S:none  | work    | S:none  |
		-----|---------|-------------------|---------|---------|
		 B   | M:DS+SS |      M:DS         | M:DS+SP | M:??    |
		     | S:DM    |      S:none       | S:(DM)  | S:none  |
SLAVE	-----|---------|-----------------------------|---------|
		 C   | M:DS(SS)|      M:DS                   | M:??    |
		     | S:none  |      S:none                 | S:none  |
		-----|---------|-----------------------------|---------|
		 D   | M:DS/SS |      M:DS                   | M:??    |
		     | S:none  |      S:none                 | S:SP    |
		-----|---------|-----------------------------|---------|
		 E   | M:DS/SS |    M:DS(SP)       | M:DS+SP | M:??    |
		     | S:none  |    S:??           | S:??    | S:??    |
		--------------------------------------------------------

Explanations:
-------------
A = Quantum ProDrive 40, 80
B = Quantum ProDrive LPS 52, 80, 105
C = Quantum ProDrive 120, 170, 210, 425, 425i
D = Quantum ProDrive LPS 120, 240, ELS 42, 85, 127, 170
E = Other (unknown) drive

M: = Master drive setting			DS = Drive Select  
S: = Slave drive setting			SP = Slave Present 
									DM = Drive Mode    
() = MIGHT be needed				SS = Self Seek     
 / = Either will do
 + = Both jumpers are needed

> I'm all for opening a can 'o worms. I hate fishing without bait.

Hope this 'bait' helps a bit.

		-- Bjorn


       ///  Bjorn Stenberg, Stockholm, Sweden         bjst@sth.frontec.se
      ///  main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}
 \\\ ///  "- Your documentation no longer confuses me, old version!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD drives
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:04:06 GMT

Quoth elauren@hubcap.clemson.edu (Addison Laurent):

]> would sell? Surely you jest... (remember, the power-up deal was a
]> mistake) They didn't even bother to look at history to see the problems

Huh?  How was Power-Up a mistake?  Explain...

]> I hate .sigs. 

Too steenkin' bad.... :-)
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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 500C!!!(+new 550?)
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 92 21:15:34 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> OK, so you get better _black_ reproduction!

Not only that, you save a lot of ink, too. Why waste three colours to get 
black, when you can use a single colour for black, considering that in most 
cases black will be most common colour (pages with text and graphics mixed etc)
.

                        _       .    __
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 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: healyj@columbia.dsu.edu (Jon A. Healy)
Subject: 2.04 ROMs & Amiga 500
Keywords: It doesn't work
Organization: Dakota State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:52:52 GMT

I recently purchased a 2.04 ROM for my A500 with a revison 5 motherboard.  
When I got the ROms it said to connect a jumper between pins 1 and 31.  I 
did that and the ROM didn't work.  I called the company from which I bought 
the ROM.  They said to try a ROM switcher.  So I purchased an ICD Kickback 
ROM switcher.  It still didn't work with or without the jumper.  So I called 
ICD tech support and they said the ROM must be defective.  So I called to 
get a replacement ROM, it came i nthe mail, and it still doesn't work.  I am 
in need of someone who can tell me what is wrong and what I should do to fix 
it.  Anyone's help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon Healy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:07:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Martin Black (22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu) wrote:

> 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.

That is the wrong direction.  All the genlock advertizements I see say
"NTSC Composite video out".  That's not what I need; I want NTSC _in_, and
analog (separated) RGB out.  But thanks anyway.

  - steve
From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 10 MB fastram onb a2000: technical question
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
Organization: TheNews

In article <1992Nov12.190837.20584@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val
Kartchner) writes:
>frits@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) writes:
>: Recently I saw in the German Amiga magazin an add from WAW Elektronik
>: where they advertised a chipram expander for the a500/a2000 that also
>: had an extra 2 MB on board with which you can get a total of 10 MB Fastram.
>...
>: I know this is possible with a bigger processor, but if I read the add
>: correctly they intend it for the standard a500/a2000 with a 68000 processor.
>
>I have an A1000 with 9.5MB of FAST RAM and .5MB of CHIP RAM.  It is all
"legal"
>memory.  It's actually possible to have 9.75MB of FAST RAM in the A1000, but
>I don't know of anyone who actually makes a memory board that has the extra
>256KB of memory.
>
>    A1000    A500-A2500  A3000/A4000
>+-----------+-----------+-----------+
>|   .5 MB   |   1 MB    |   2 MB    |   "chip" RAM
>+-----------+           |           |
>|           +-----------+           |
>|           |           |           |
>+-----------+-----------+-----------+
>|                                   |
>|               8 MB                |   AutoConfig (tm) space
>|                                   |
>+-----------+-----------------------+
>|  1.75 MB  |                       |   Memory space
>+-----------+                       |
>|                                   |
>...                               ...   I/O, chip registers, reserved
>|                                   |
>|           +-----------------------+
>+-----------+                       |
>|  .25 MB   |         .5 MB         |   Kickstart ROM
>+-----------+-----------------------+
>
Actually, you've just hacked memory into the $c000000 auto-config space. It's
the place where the bellt slot A500 or  .5Meg Agnus A2000 memory lives, also
called 'SLOW-FAST' memory because it uses the CHIp memory access decoder to
address the memory. This memory is config'd at boot time , in 64 bytes chunks
by writing a values to it and seeing if you can read it back. When you run out
of memory it figures thta at the end of the memory.
From: DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is a 6mb 1200 available???
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:29:26 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

NewMedia sells a 4MB PCMCIA card designed specifically for the A600
and A1200. It's available through most Amiga dealers. It's not
battery-backed, and can only be used as system RAM.

Note that you don't want to use the PCMCIA route for RAM
expansion--memory in the trap door slot will be MUCH faster since
PCMCIA is only 16-bit.

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Denny Atkin                | dennya@cup.portal.com          | "No matter where
Editor                     | Portal, GEnie, and BIX: dennya | you go, there you
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 specs and HD floppy infor wanted
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:27:25 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <36694@cbmvax.commodore.com> <36728@cbmvax.commodore.com>
  <69085@cup.portal.com>

>I've been trying to convince the marketing folks that an external
>hi-density drive would be a Good Thing that they could sell lots of.
>(Works with any Amiga, plug and go, assuming you're running 2.1+).
>
>Perhaps the user groups should band together and let CBM know there's
>a demand for this.

Perhaps they don't see the higher density as being enough of an Amiga
standard.  Perhaps they need to noticed that CrossDos is now part of 2.1 and
that the IBM standard is 1.44MB drives.  I think an internal, and yes, and
external drive could do nothing more than make them more money.  Ooops,
that's a sure sign it will be rejected. ;-)

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>Denny Atkin                | dennya@cup.portal.com          | "No matter where
>Editor                     | Portal, GEnie, and BIX: dennya | you go, there yo
u
>COMPUTE's Amiga Resource   | CIS: 75500,3602                | are." - B.Banzai
>---------------=====<<<<< YES! COMPUTE _DOES_ COVER THE AMIGA! >>>>>=====-----
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-Joel
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From: Mike_Noreen@arkham.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000,1.3,2.0 HELP!!!
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:42:43 GMT
Reply-To: Mike_Noreen@arkham.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
Organization: Arkham Asylum, Stockholm, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: All

You can indeed load kickstart 1.3 even on a A3000 with kickstart 2.04 in ROM. 
It is not entirely trivial, though.

First: Use the MakeFiles command you can find on your install disk to create a 
kickstart 1.3 kickfile from your kickstartdisk.

Second: Get hold of hte command SetCPU (that is the nontrivial bit! ;-)), and 
use its kickrom-option to load the kickstartfile.

This kickstart wont survive keyboard reset, but it will survive software reset.
I find this quite useful when I wish to play Elite.


MVH: Mike Noreen

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mckillnm@unix2.tcd.ie (Marky Mark)
Subject: HELP : HD SCSI or IDE and the A1200
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:33:24 GMT


Hi there netter's,
		  I have just got my self an A1200.  A quick machine 
when compaired to my old A500 BUT a lot of software does NOT run on
it.  In order to get more serious use for the A1200 I want to install
a hard drive to it.  I have to choice of two drives

	1) A Microscience Int Crop (model HH-1050)
	or
	2) An old Seagate ST-238R

		  My first question has to be ... which, if any, have an
IDE interface ?  I have got a PSU that will do both drives and know a bit
about electronics so making up cables is not that difficult a task but am
I asking too much ... Can either of the above be linked to the A1200 (it
is clamed to have an IDE controler inside) with just a cable ?  If this 
is possable could some one E-MAIL me the pin connections ?

		  Provided the hardware connections go ok ... what has to
be done to the software to make it "see" the harddisk ?  How do I format
the disk (just like a black floppy) ?

		  The questions I have put here may seem very simple but
as I have not got the FULL set of manuals with the computer I have no 
circuit digm to go with !  So a full set of pin-outs for the 40 way IDE
connector in the computer and the pin-outs on the drives would be a big
help to solving this problem.

		   Thanks is advance,
	
			Mark (mckillnm@unix2.tcd.ie)



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