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PhonePax Fax option
Message #194706
No, a star terminates a call… immediately. 8) What you might be thinking of is that, if you've marked some faxes for retrieval (while in remote access for example), terminating the call (which is what star does) causes the faxes to be transmitted before ending the call. But that's a…
#PhonePax Fax option
Message #194705
Jonathan, Not entirely sure what you're asking, so if I miss the mark feel free to redirect… You said you "can't figure out how to allow the caller to manually initiate a fax while the message is playing." If you're talking about a caller sending a fax TO PhonePak once…
No problem, I've been grasping at straws for days now. Yes, "Verify Data" is the option you run, but you don't have to add any bad blocks it finds. At least not according to the AmigaDOS manual… it says they get added to the list automatically when Verify Data finds…
Thanks for the information, Bill. I don't want to blame this on the cart yet, but your comments about not being able to format sure sound suspicious. Perhaps the cart is marginal and the drive is retrying a zillion times. Rick
Erik, I don't know if the cart was still spinning or not. I note the manual says wait 30 seconds. I doubt I waited that long every time… but I also doubt it takes that long for the thing to spin down. All my references to formatting have been low…
Bill, May I ask what symptoms you experienced? With the very little reading and writing I've done to this cart it's hard to believe it might have just "gone bad," but I did eject it manually a couple of times in the early stages of debugging this problem. I'm thinking…
Yeah, Bill is telling me the same thing over there as we speak. So that's probably not it, but I'll still check the ROM revision number when I go inside. Odd, your story about the terminators. If you had them on the external device I, too, would have thought they…
Aha… Erik is telling me as much (5.25 vs. 3.5) simultaneously in another message. I will still check the ROM when I get in there (the week's been too busy so far), but based on both your comments will drop that one way down on the suspect list. Thanks for…
#Cart drive hangs boot
Message #189170
Thanks for the information. >Is this an A3000/x type machine? Yes. Rick
#Cart drive hangs boot
Message #189169
Actually, the scanner went both ways. When I first found out the thing wouldn't boot, I disconnected the scanner to see if it made a difference. That was my standard procedure through most of this, except when I started having checksum errors after pulling the terminators on the Maxtor. In…
I didn't really get the feeling you were being "rough" on them. Just wanted you to have more of the picture. BTW, I had to put the terminators back on the Maxtor (drive nearest the controller). I tried writing to the SyQuest for the first time after pulling them last…
>I wish I could figure out what's causing it to hang?!? Heh… you and me both. But at least it's non-fatal. As Steve has pointed out, I can simply leave a cart in the drive until I find a solution. Not like your problem, which made it difficult to do…
Tom, > What do you mean by email support? The 95LX, as you know, has the telecom app and that's it. The 100LX adds CC:MAIL, so if you're on a LAN or other sort of network running CC:MAIL you can link in and do your chores. If memory serves, the…
Bill, > … move the SyQuest… to a value greater than the fixed drive(s). > > With no cart(s) installed, run HDToolBox… and set the "last drive" flag. > > The result… the system will not scan for the removable at all. Sorry, did exactly that two nights ago at…
Rob, The problem I'm having is not a long timeout, it' _no_ timeout. Just to make sure I waited five minutes just now. The system is just hung, period. I've already tried the SyQuest as the lowest HD number and as the highest, and have also set the "last drive"…
Erik, Well, four drives if you want to count DF0:. And I still have room for one more, but so far I've been able to resist the temptation. 8) As for internal temperature, I don't think the drives are generating any more heat than some of the accelerator boards, though…
Erik: I'll respond to all three of your messages here to keep the thread from expanding further. I know some of your earlier questions "self-answered" when you read my later messages, but I'll hit them all anyway. The problem isn't a delay, but a hard hang (I know you know…
Ah, well that answers THAT question. Rick
Erik, Well, I have done as you suggested, and the symptoms have changed. Let me echo what I did to make sure I understood you. I remapped my drives so the 60 meg HD is #4, the 212 meg HD is #5, and the cartridge drive is #6. I left…
PMFJI, Tom, And I haven't seen the earlier part of this thread so this may be a total nonsequitur, but: >"Now that'd be neat if there's a term program in the LX ROM, but I'll try >not to get my hopes up…" Go ahead and get your hopes up, just…
Erik, I just noticed something I missed when I composed my first reply to you. You said the system "will sit there for up to 10 seconds, waiting…" I think I could almost live with that! The problem I'm having is actually that it waits _forever_ (well, at least several…
Steve, > Now days, I use scsi tape streamer, and it's always got a tape in it. Yeah, but is it true that for a tape drive the motor isn't running unless you're accessing the tape? Not exactly a comparable situation, if so. > It's no different than a hard…
Betty, I picked up SCSIMounter (is this the "SCSImount" you mentioned?) the same night I first plugged in the SyQuest. Its purpose is to mount/remount a SCSI device. You need to mount, of course, if Amy doesn't recognize the drive on startup. This would be the case if I could…
> PMJI… "Pardon???" But jumping in is what I _want_ you to do! Interesting tidbit of information; thanks for sharing it. Currently the cartridge drive is #4, followed by two hard drives at #5 and #6. I'll remap them and try your suggestion if nothing more suitable turns up. I'd…
Steve, > Easy solution — leave a cart in the drive. Isn't that really more of a "workaround" than a solution? I'd rather not leave a cart in if I can avoid it. This machine has to stay up 24/7, and in the event of the watchdog cycling power to…
Don… > hookup a double pole switch and use it to turn the power on/off to the > drive Man, what a hack! Doable, certainly, but I'm hoping for something a bit more… elegant. I _know_ there's a way to deal with this, I just don't know what it is.…
Betty, Dunno why either. Maybe part of the difference is that the SCSI is built in on the A3000, whereas I assume you're using a controller card in your 2500. Doesn't that imply a potential difference in the device driver? I mentioned in my first post that a place I…
Hi Betty, This may be different for me 'cuz I'm on a 3000, but I didn't need to do anything with the mountlist here. I used HDToolBox to low-level format and partition the cartridge, then rebooted. That gave me SDH0:NDOS. Then I used the AmigaDOS FORMAT command to format the…
Oliver, > Unfortunately you forgot to mention which host adaptor you use… No, unfortunately I forgot to mention this is on an A3000 . Probably because I posted about this machine in another thread only days ago, and was therefore thinking I had already typed "A3000." Apologies for the omission.…
#Cart drive hangs boot
Message #187815
Hi Don. Long time no type to. > IF the Syquest is an external unit… Unfortunately, it's not. It's internal on an A3000. (And yes, I know that's not possible. ) Any other suggestions? Rick
#Cart drive hangs boot
Message #187576
I'm in the middle of installing a SyQuest SQ3270S cartridge drive. Everything is working fine except when I boot up with no cart in the drive. When the SCSI scan hits that device, it hangs with the drive light lit. I've waited a good long time, so I don't think…
Supplements to Larry's message: A representative sampling of Magneto-Optical drives: MANUFACTURER MODEL MB/SIDE ACCESS, mSEC PRICE HITACHI OD112-1 322 75 5000 MAXTOR TAHITI 322/500 35 9900 RICOH RO-5030E 297 71 3800 SONY SMO-D501 325 95 4650 SONY SMO-S501 325 95 5250 These are all SCSI drives. All the capacities are…
Jon, Do not, repeat NOT, assign a Soundscape-ish name to the directory in which you place Soundscape. Soundscape has a disk-based protection scheme which is so tacky as to CRASH YOUR MACHINE (yes, it's DESIGNED to do that) if it doesn't find what it likes. If you don't assign the…
Leaf-raker? Hmmm… 8)
Rats, who told you! 8) I never meant for it to be "mysterious". The thing was supposed to be revealed to the public in late spring, and I started mentioning it shortly before then, thinking that we'd all know what it was soon enough. Of course schedules slip and problems…
Although I think you're overstating the facts (no, I KNOW you're overstating them! 8), I appreciate the thought. Thanks! Rick
Geez, two replies to the same message; two days out of the sysop seat and already I'm getting senile. 😉 Rick
I'll do what I can, Steve. Thanks! Rick
Thanks, Larry. It HAS been fun, and I'm sorry it has to come to an end. You can bet you'll be seeing me around… mostly here. Where else would I go? This is THE place to be. 😉 Rick
Bill, Thanks very much for the kind words. I've grown from being here too. I know this'll sound corny, but there ya go: this is a special place, and you guys are special people. It was great just being a part of it. There's not much additional information there, but…
Thanks, Chris. You bet I _want_ to be here, and certainly will be as much as is possible for me. We'll see how it goes. Rick
Thanks, Terry. — Rick
Thanks for the kind words, Vic. I don't know who'll be doing the COs; Mom, I'd expect. Any of our sysops are more than capable of handling the job, though! Take care, Rick
Thanks, Richard. My Latin is very rusty, but if I read that right, I appreciate the thought. (And if I didn't, how dare you! 😉 Rick
Thanks, Barry. Take care! — Rick
Thanks, Larry. I've had a ball too. Wouldn't trade it for anything! Regards, Rick
Thanks for the kind words, Betty. If it were up to me, I'd continue to be here as often as before. Unfortunately, it's up to the electric company, the phone company, the grocery store, the bank holding my mortgage… 8) I WILL try to pop in from time to time,…
#Personalities
Message #37715
Here's an interesting tidbit from the 10/27 EET (used without permission). It's a clip from a viewpoint piece by George Morrow (I assume the George Morrow of Morrow Micro Designs; they don't say specifically). In his writings he says "… Jack Tramiel and his company represent an enigma in the…
#Personalities
Message #37715
Here's an interesting tidbit from the 10/27 EET (used without permission). It's a clip from a viewpoint piece by George Morrow (I assume the George Morrow of Morrow Micro Designs; they don't say specifically). In his writings he says "… Jack Tramiel and his company represent an enigma in the…
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#SoundScape
Message #37497
Fred, What version do you have? Mimetics is updating SoundScape pretty much constantly, and has already released one new version. I'm just getting started with SS, and would be glad to answer any specific questions that I can. As to crashing, I will observe that their standalone sampler software (the…
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