#IVS Trump/A4000/040
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David: You are giving up on your 4000 too easily! Although the 4000 does
have it's quirks, most of the time it will run just fine with very few
guru visits. I would say your SCSI controller is the most likely culprit,
and you might check into purchasing a GVP 4008 or the DKB 4091 if you can
afford it. The GVP controller will work fine with either the -09 or -11
SuperBuster and gets a decent transfer rate of 750K-1MB/sec transfer
rates. The 4091 requires the -11 Buster and 3.1 (or above) processor
board.
Some programs don't like the Copyback cache of the 68040, but unless it's
a game, I usually trash such programs. Same goes for a lot of programs
that cause Enforcer hits.
// John (Speeding on the Information Superhighway)
\X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
>David: You are giving up on your 4000 too easily!
I've pretty much got the A4000 running smoothly. I do still get a LOT of
unexplainable crashes though. Upon someone's (sorry, I can't find the
original message, but thanks) recommendation, I contacted Sam Noonan from
IVS and he is going to try to help me out with my SCSI controller
problems.
I do feel confident the problems are SCSI and software related and not the
fault of the A4000 itself.
Thanks for the reassurance. I had forgotten what it feels like to have
such problems with such a reliable ol' gal as my A2000/030. For awhile
there, I felt like I was running AmigaDOS 1.0 again. I checked the disks
for a copy of Kalaidoscope. 🙂
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