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#101853From: Andy FinkelJan 6, 1988 1:57 PM
Boy, I wish I could easily re-read the thread. Oh well. Maybe your power supply is giving the wrong number of ticks, or the 8520 counter is screwing up. That's the only thing I can think of, assuming that you've checked GfxBase and ExecBase to make sure it doesn't accidently think you've got a 50hz timebase, is to do the following 1) Check the timer ticks with a scope or freq counter 2) swap 8520s and see what happens 3) change the jumper to read off vblank and see what happens. andy
#101899From: BILL LEACHJan 6, 1988 7:31 PM
Andy: OK, next time the box is open I'll check with a scope and see what is present at the clock counter as well as check the clock with the jumper set to 2 & 3 vice 1 & 2. I already tried the 8520 chip shuffle with no change in behavior. I should try the serial port one of these days too. I don't even know if it works or not. Where does the baud rate clock come from? It seems like if the system thought it was running on a 50 Hz line then the clock should gain 12 sec. every minute or 12 min. every hour, no? The gain I am seeing is very close to 4.6 sec/min. Off the top of my head I don't see any relationship between this error and anything from the real world. It will probably be at least several days before I can open the box again. I really need to check out the SCSI drive and see if I will be re-installing it before I open the Ami again. 73, bill
#102019From: Andy FinkelJan 7, 1988 6:27 PM
well, let me know what you find… (the 50hz theory has advanced on the basis of "it might be…") Speaking of hard disks and SCSI… I think I've figured out how to specify LUNs with the 2090. Who was interested ? I don't have such a beast at the moment… andy
#102089From: John Sobernheim(TCR)Jan 7, 1988 11:06 PM
Andy, A number of folks are interested in the way Luns may work off of the A2090. I think the person that brought up the original message a while back was Dan Moore. I'll leave him some mail so he's sure to pick up the thread! -John
#102089From: John Sobernheim(TCR)Jan 7, 1988 11:06 PM
Andy, A number of folks are interested in the way Luns may work off of the A2090. I think the person that brought up the original message a while back was Dan Moore. I'll leave him some mail so he's sure to pick up the thread! -John
#102154From: BILL LEACHJan 8, 1988 11:29 AM
Andy: Ok, I might get a chance to drag a scope out today and if not then sometime this week end. 73, bill
#102154From: BILL LEACHJan 8, 1988 11:29 AM
Andy: Ok, I might get a chance to drag a scope out today and if not then sometime this week end. 73, bill
#102183From: Dan MooreJan 8, 1988 1:58 PM
Andy, I'm the person (or at least one of the persons) who was interested in running multiple LUNs off the 2090. What do I need to do to specify the different LUNs when I'm setting up and mounting the drives? I'll be glad to try it and let you know if it works or not. The worse that can happen is it fail and that leaves me no worse off than I am now. Dan
#102232From: Andy FinkelJan 8, 1988 5:56 PM
Try a funny unit number…left shift the unit number 5 places (binary), add to the real unit number. (in the mountlist)
#102232From: Andy FinkelJan 8, 1988 5:56 PM
Try a funny unit number…left shift the unit number 5 places (binary), add to the real unit number. (in the mountlist)
#102183From: Dan MooreJan 8, 1988 1:58 PM
Andy, I'm the person (or at least one of the persons) who was interested in running multiple LUNs off the 2090. What do I need to do to specify the different LUNs when I'm setting up and mounting the drives? I'll be glad to try it and let you know if it works or not. The worse that can happen is it fail and that leaves me no worse off than I am now. Dan
#102019From: Andy FinkelJan 7, 1988 6:27 PM
well, let me know what you find… (the 50hz theory has advanced on the basis of "it might be…") Speaking of hard disks and SCSI… I think I've figured out how to specify LUNs with the 2090. Who was interested ? I don't have such a beast at the moment… andy
#101899From: BILL LEACHJan 6, 1988 7:31 PM
Andy: OK, next time the box is open I'll check with a scope and see what is present at the clock counter as well as check the clock with the jumper set to 2 & 3 vice 1 & 2. I already tried the 8520 chip shuffle with no change in behavior. I should try the serial port one of these days too. I don't even know if it works or not. Where does the baud rate clock come from? It seems like if the system thought it was running on a 50 Hz line then the clock should gain 12 sec. every minute or 12 min. every hour, no? The gain I am seeing is very close to 4.6 sec/min. Off the top of my head I don't see any relationship between this error and anything from the real world. It will probably be at least several days before I can open the box again. I really need to check out the SCSI drive and see if I will be re-installing it before I open the Ami again. 73, bill