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#GVP & GigaMem

    04-Dec-93 00:19:34
Sb: #GVP & GigaMem
Fm: Tony Thompson 73447,2430
To: ALL
This is for anyone who has pulled their hair out trying to get GigaMem to work with the A2000 G-Force 040 Combo board. GigaMem will work but there are a few things to do first. First off, you need the 68040.lib ver 37.3 not 37.10. Secondly, the data cache must be turned off, the inst cache can remain on. Finally you should have setpatch 37.38. I have gotten GigaMem to work reliably under this configuration using a second startup-seq for use with AdPro. GigaMem will not work with either the 37.4 or 37.10 040.libs. I've found this out through a lot of trial and error not to mention a call to Inovatronics. As for Inovatronics tech support line, that is another story in itself. The person I spoke to was somewhat obnoxious being that he was more interested in getting me to say the correct pronouciation of GigaMem than he was in why I called. Further, claims were made that GVP 040 boards do not use true 68040's but that GVP uses 040's without MMU's since the board supplies the hardware for relocating Kickstart. I don't know one way or the other if there is any truth to this but I would take anything said from Inovatronics with a grain of salt since I got this to work with a board which supposidly has no MMU.