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Dieter, I am not sure how much having terminating resistors on both of my (internal) drives really affected things. Under AmigaDOS I was not having any problems at all. The most important factor (I think) was the _sbic_inhibit_sync thing. If I power down the machine I can boot up in…
Dieter, Ahhhhh, I have had success! I re-examined the hardware and removed the terminating resistors from the drive having SCSI address 1 (ooops) and used binpatch as suggested. Things seemed to move pretty smoothly thereafter. Still the system seems to boot into UNIX more reliably when I power down before…
Dieter, Well, before reading your last message I went ahead and changed the addresses of my drives so that the NetBSD partitions had the lowest address number. This change gets me one step further in the boot process – we now recognize the SCSI drive but still no partitions. I…
Dieter, Thanks for your detailed reply to my plea for help. It seems I have done all that you suggest but the boot (loadbsd -b netbsd.a3000-1.0) hangs when it looks for SCSI devices. Does anyone think that my NetBSD partitions must be the only partitions on the drive or that…
Brian, You are, of course, correct. I am only prompted for the filename when I attempt to add a filesystem, which I now figure is not required (see Dieter's reply below). I gather that I need only change "identifier" to the values given in the "INSTALL" document. Still things aren't…
Thanks for the encouragement… I haven't given up yet! Rick
#UNIX Setup .. Help
Message #47250
Anyone, I am attempting to set up NetBSD on my A3000 and have a question – I am having trouble getting NetBSD to recognize my Unix partitions on the Harddrive. I am sure that the partitions have not had their filesystems set up correctly. HDToolBox wants a filename to define…
Thanks, That's a different number than those I've been trying.
Hamlab support
Message #36292
Is anyone using HamLab? If so, do you know the number of Ed Hanway's support BBS? Or is this project dead? I am a registered user and the number for the support BBS in my last newsletter (7/92) is no longer in service (and has not been for quite a…
Well, I'd be happy to pay you something for it, I've got a 6809 development board here and the software looks useful. As far as Amiga the Engineering Tool goes, yeah I agree there's not much hope. Although I used my ol' A2000 for 3 years of EE school for…
#EMU6809
Message #53423
Say, I called your 800 number to enquire about the 6809 emulator and no-one knew anything about it. (So I ordered DSoup instead – is this some sort of ploy?) In particular I need a price, and evidently a shipping date. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Rick
Thanks for the help… Rick
Please excuse me for breaking in here, but I've played with the vi Uedit configuration file for a couple of hours with no (favorable) result. Since I'm still in school that's all the time I had for it so it just got set aside for the time being. Now I'm…
#Access!
Message #13261
Keith, In case you do decide to continue development of Access! I was wondering if you still have records of the folks who did pay the shareware fee. Thanks, Rick Barrett
I really appreciate your help, Dale. I realize I'm asking a little (alot?) much when I ask for subjective evaluation of printed output – but I guess I figured somebody's opinion was better'n no opinion at all. I found a copy of Maxiplan on sale (very cheap) at a local…
Thanks for the quick response. Yes it was long, but I appreciate the detail in your descriptions. I've seen Maxiplan output and was not impressed. Have you printed any graphs (pie, bar etc.)? I really need a spreadsheet for school, but our professors are fairly picky about the appearance of…
#Advantage
Message #8408
I recall seeing some discussion (mostly favorable) regarding the "Advantage" spreadsheet here a while back. Can anyone who owns this package give me an idea of the quality of printed output can expect if I buy I need spreadsheet desparately, but thingare looking pretty grim as far as what I've…
Thanks, everyone who answered my question. I'm very sorry to hear it, I think Transactor is without equal in the Amiga Publication Community. Don, I take it you'll not be writing for them anymore? Doesn't sound good at all… Rick
#Transactor?
Message #77762
Does anybody know what's going on with Transactor? I think I have (had?) a subscription but have heard anything for quite a while. Sorry if this has been hashed over already, but I now live very long distance from the nearest CIS line…. Thanks Rick
Well that's what I thought. I did experience some spectacular crashes while playing with a program I've been working on (coping image data into unallocated memory and whatnot). I did stumble across some similar information while browsing through the (Tah Dah!-) AmigaDOS users manual. I know, read first and THEN…
#ClockVirus???
Message #58578
Does there actually exist a Clock Virus? I though that was all hogwash and then my clock stopped (A-2000). A program called ClkDoctor V2.0 set things right again. Does anyone know anything about this thing ie is it a virus? and how does it propogate if it is. Or do…
Thanks, I think that's my problem. JRComm's great, I think I'm about to switch from Access! Rick
#JRComm/CIS
Message #56102
I am in the process of trying to switch to JRComm…Can someone tell me the proper settings to use for CIS? I am using 7E1 now but B+ protocol doesn't seem to work (transfer starts and immediately quits). I am using V0.94a which is supposed to work fine with B+…
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2000/Fat Agnus
Message #53718
Chris, on my machine the procedure involved 3 steps: 1) Move jumper at J101 2) Cut trace at jumper pad J500 3) Pull old Agnes (by far the hardest part) and install new Agnes Mine is a revision 4.5 motherboard and I understand from my local service guy that installation…
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DRAM Types & Prices
Message #53556
Bill, I just (Tuesday) ordered 16 chips from Leo Electronics (ad in Computer Shopper) at $15.00 ea. These are 1Meg x 1, 100ns – I've been waiting a while for that price. They have not arrived yet, I will post any problems that arise. Rick
Well Ken, I wondered the very same thing after seeing some references to HardFrame using about 150K per partition. I called Microbotics and they were extremely helpful, ran some tests and called me back within two hours (I was impressed – my only previous experence was with CLtd – try…
I've been running my HardFrame a couple of months now and I LOVE it, it's easy to set up, VERY fast (even with my SLUG-DRIVE). I have yet to see a read/write error, and it AutoBoots, NOW. I also heard a lot about the DMA contention problem (mostly 'cause I…
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#Pascal Compiler
Message #13497
Art, Thanks for the prompt reply…As I just mentioned to Larry this is for a school project and I need Pascal, but if they're no good compilers around I think I'll try some other alternative. Modula-2 DOES interest me and I think my money's better spent there. Know the status…
#13319-
Pascal Compiler
Message #13496
Thanks Larry, Doesn't sound good. I think I personally would prefer Modula-2 but this is for a school project. Think I may just use someone elses computer/compiler and save MY money for Modula-2.(BenchMark may be available by then, ya think??) Rick