This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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If he has an A3000 then forget scsi.device in any drawer anywhere – it is in the ROM. {@_@}
Modify startup-sequence to place "enforcer quiet" just before the binddrivers call. (You should be able to find enforcer in the listings area here if it is not on the install disks.) {@_@}
SupraFAX Profile Needed!
Message #104856
AT&F2 works a whole lot better. The &F or &F1 defaults to a Macintosh configuration which only "sorta works". {@_@}
Some chips need upgrading but it works just fine on the A3000. {@_@}
I'm impatient. {@_-}
Panther 0 – 3600rpm, 76 sectors per track, 15 heads. 535meg MAXTOR: 3600rpm, 61 sectors per track, 11 heads Majik: 6300rpm, 85 sectors per track, 15 heads These all well exceed the 1meg per second bogey. {@_@}
Bad numbers Don. Good math. The fastest drives around are spinning at 6300rpm or so and have close to 100 sectors per track and something on the order of 15 heads. They *SCREAM*. (The MAXTOR Magic has been clocked in my presence at 3.9megs per second using diskspeed4 and when…
Paul, I am GLAD I am not the only one saying this. I've been arguing about this over on BIX as well. There simply no IDE drive that can approach the transfer rates of typical SCSI drives in the 1.3 to 4 gigabyte size range. And on a well written…
Seacrate? Have they really learned you cannot cheapen up the old Wren designs (er "value engineer them") and keep them running reliably? I heard they had some HORRRRRRID problems after trying to use a cheaper head assembly for one. So far I have liked Micropolis best. Their ultrafast drive has…
(Drily, "Do read the NDAs." Er – you slipped even mentioning that A4000T is on that price list.) {O.O}
A4091 Controller
Message #104848
Person who try to use DB-25 on SCSI-II is person asking for worlds of hurt pain suffering and general headaches. At the VERY least get one with all 50 wires up to the DB-25 end. Note that the DB-25 abortion is *NOT* repeat *NOT* an approved SCSI connector for ANY…
SCSI-II is always parallel transfer. SCSI-II can be 8, 16, or 32 bits wide. 16 bits wide requires a different cable and connector. 32 bit wide requires both the different connector and the original on two cables with VERY fancy software handling the timing skew in the cables. {@_@}
A4091 Controller
Message #104846
SCSI-II is 8, 16, or 32 bits wide. SCSI-2 50 pins is only 8 bits wide. {@_@}
A4091 Controller
Message #104845
Sigh – it is not DB-50. It is not DB family at all. The pinouts are unchanged from SCSI-1 for 8 bit SCSI. Note that 1-25 are on one side of the connector and 26-50 are on the other just like with standard SCSI-1 edge connectors. {@_@}
A4091 Controller
Message #104844
It is *NOT* a DB-50 connector. It is a special ribbon connector in a shell very roughly DB-25 size. It is in no way related to the "DB" family of connector. {@_@}
Apparently it was so bad it is acquiring a following. These seem to be the same folks as doted on Dr Who. {@_@}
#Babalon 5
Message #25784
I saw the pilot for Babylon 5 at the Thanksgiving weekend LOSCON. There is no comparison between the quality of the DS9 work such as the poorly integrated models and screwed perspectives and the Babylon 5 rather smoothly done graphics of Babylon 5. B5 was incredible. {@_@}
I cannot strongly enough recommend WShell to people. It makes AREXX more useable. The goodies that come with it make everything else more useable. The DisplayHandler for the CLI windows gives scroll back and menus. You get file name completion capability. You get PathHandler, which IMHO is worth the price…
Scott – you MIGHT get somewhere with the AUX port. THe SER port uses buffered IO so until you queue up N (see prefs setting) characters it does nothing. Then it sends all those characters out in one swell foop. {@_@}
The latest Distant Suns works on the A4000. I ran it up at JerryP's house. It was amazingly fast. It took me five minutes to find my socks! {@_@}
Right – Caliper was bought by Sankyo about the time that deal went down. {@_@} (I have a CP525 here.)
Betty, the last I knew they were drives made by Sankyo in Irvine Ca. {@_@}
#A1200 clock?
Message #85669
Well….. It may be time for Microbotics to resurrect their little "plugs into the mouse port" RTC hack. It works… But it is more cost effective I suspect to just get a bare MBX1200 board. {@_@}
Yeah – but the mass that has to be moved to move a flat lander is of a different order than that to move a three dimensional-er. Think of what it might mean for someone with most of his mass in another dimension. It might be a tad hard to…
Nononono. Odo is actually a 37mm tall amoeboid intelligence who can mimic the holodeck using mental telepathy and telekenesis and mental projection. This gives him the ability to imitate almost anything be it a life form or a wall or a bag. He projects holographic images of what he wants…
Shhhh, don't tell my machine you cannot. It happily runs UNIX or AmigaDOS. {@_-}
It sounds like you might have a superkickstart version of the A3000. If so you MUST have the system partition named WB_2.x. No other names need apply. {@_@}
Toaster is important to the Amiga market. But I doubt it accounts for even 10% of Commodore's Amiga sales. (I'd believe 1% at most.) Somehow the thought of NewTek trying to push Commodore around gives me giggles. All it would do is prompt C= to "pointedly ignore them." Yet this…
Has to happen if they are going to continue to compete with the rest of the world such as the "Toaster Killer" thing that Brown-Waugh was pushing at COMDEX. {@_@}
What version of the OS? What memory mapping for the Insider? It is possible that there is an interaction of softwares here that corrupted a critical piece of information RAD sticks away in interesting portions of memory. (Under 1.3 "setpatch -r" command must be run. (Or something like that. It…
The FCC BBS stated catagorically the FCC ID given for HAM-E was not a valid ID and the product could not be sold in the US. By the time I hit the FCC BBS and saw this HAM-E had appeared to have dissappeared from the market. There is much speculation…
In regards startup-sequence leave it as stock as possible. It is not a crashes issue as much as an upgrade issue. I have reduced the changes to startup-sequence around here to two edits. (One if I had ROMs instead of using a special command to allow me to test new…
(Repeat – lose VD0:. It causes problems with later versions of the OS.) {o.o}
Thanks Bob. It IS nice to know a few people appreciate the efforts. {O.O}
I suspect most of the antipathy I see among techies towards BYTE is a feeling of being robbed of what was a wonderful techie magazine. It is *NOT* a techie magazine anymore. *THAT* is what has driven me away from reading BYTE regularly. *THAT* is why I may feel frustrated…
Run up an 8 bitplane workbench and let it scroll. It is, I repeat, a bleeding dog. That is the simplest test to make. When you run up enough bitplanes in non-interlaced modes that you have used the entire memory bandwidth in fast ram things turn very slow very fast.…
Dunno about other writers but I have known Jerry for about 10 years now and I have NEVER known him to SELL anything he has received. (And he receives more than he can feed on to family members to see if they will use it even if it is not…
for awhile. They are quite strict. I also know a large body of writers in the closed writers.pros conference on BIX who would take extreme umbrage with your "on the take" remark. Maybe this tells us something about your writing style more than theirs? {@_@}
Jerry writes about what he finds useful and interesting around his place. His business is writing. Things that foster that get tried first. He is sent things in incredible bulk. (You really have no idea how much bulk.) It is to some extent random chance that he will talk about…
Seems the threat of a trip to the tech cleaned things up. Jerry's CDTV is now working fine. {@_@}
Requires very clever use of the MMU. The A4000 MMU is very different from the A3000 MMU. This the "very clever" part. Since it requires the MMU and C= has more or less reserved the MMU for OS functions we'll all have to wait on C= releasing a "cpu fastrom"…
No MMU == no UNIX. no FPU == no UNIX. {@_@}
I'd suggest talking to the folks who made the DataFlyer. It may have an OS incompatability with the newer OS. {@_@}
Whyinheck does it require l:fastfilesystem in the RDBs? Is the DataFlyer brain dead that it does not realize that the new file system is in the ROMs unless you want to try that new directory caching version? {@_@}
I'd not consider the Manx compiler unless I received an unbelievable discount. It is very long on the tooth these days and may be no longer effectively supported. The SAS compiler is a very nice product. I use it here. DICE is available and has its afficianados. I am not…
The A1200 MAY not allow as much power draw from the modem port pins as the A3000 allowed. {@_@}
Abacus books >> nil: Mask value for a Starboard II can be anything. For compatability reasons I'd make it $7ffffffe. {@_@}
The highest data rate the board will support is 19.2kbps. The highest rate the modem will support is 14.4kbps. Hence it will be the limiting factor on all but raw text transfers to similar modems. Then the 19.2kbps will become the limiting factor, VLT'd probably be able to provide rates…
If you do not register with the FCC and provide proof of compliance with part 15 you can be liable for fines in amounts way way over the $10,000 it may cost for the testing. You are not making sense Dave. PS: HAM-E was never registered with the FCC and…
I'd suspect A500 & A600 are K-mart bound. But I'd be surprised to see the A1200 there. {@_@} K-mart cannot handle the compatability questions engendered by the newer OS versions etc.
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