A2286 & AST6PAK
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Has anyone tried the AST6PAK with the A2286 AT bridgeboard? If you have, I
am interested in knowing how well it works. Thanks in advance.
Tim
I have it's close cousin the AST6Pack Premium and after a bit of tinking
about,it works just fine. I have 512k on the board which gives me 384
above 640. I decided to put a pseudo hard disk in this area using the AST
software. The only caveat, is that the disk is "hardcoded" to label itself
D. (I have a PC hardcard installed). This causes conflicts with jlink
which has similar hardcoding with it's virtual drives starting with D even
if not linked. The solution was to junk Jdisk.sys. With the AST fastdisk
and my hard disk,I don't need virtual disks on the Amiga side. If I didn't
use the AST FastDisk, there is no problems with Jlink. I will continue to
experiment, using Vdisk in place of Fastdisk and see how Jlink takes to the
idea. But as I said, Jlink is no longer needed as the AST and it's
FASTdisk work perfectly. I have run ProCommPlus Test Drive from the serial
port and will experiment with my Polaroid Palette next. One more thing, I
suggest you configure the AST paralel port as LPT2: to avoid conflicts with
the Bridge LPT1: emulation.
FL