scott@geowhiz.UUCP (Scott Kempf) (01/20/88)
In article <6495@drutx.ATT.COM> dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (VachonD) writes: >In article <8801150020.AA17848@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") writes: >> RE: Transwarp >> >> I assume you don't have one. There is no interference with peripherals. Dip >> switches on the card allow any peripherals that need to operate at 1 Mhz. > >Sorry Bruce....Not so.... I have a friend who runs a BBS with both a TimeMaster >and Transwarp. The problems is that these two cards can not live off the same >bus together. With both cards installed he gets I/O errors on his Hard Drive >and funny things happen like hanging. If he takes one card or the other out, >it functions fine.... >Later -Dan Vachon- !ucbvax!ihnp4!drutx!dvac Maybe your friend doesn't have a good enought power supply to support all these cards. Does he have something other than these three. He must have a com card. Scott -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Kempf Blue itself teaches us blue. -Bill Ranson MAIL: 1302 Rutledge St., Madison, WI 53703 PHONE: (608) 255-6205 (home) UUCP: {seismo, topaz, harvard, ihnp4}!uwvax!geowhiz!scott ARPA: geowhiz!scott@spool.wisc.edu PHONE: (608) 262-6154 (work) BITNET: scott%geowhiz.uucp%spool.wisc.edu@wiscvm.bitnet
halp@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Bruce P. Halpern) (01/20/88)
My TRANSWARP User's Manual, v1.1, states that clock cards generally need a 1 MHz timing signal (in contrast to the 3.6 MHz provided by TRANSWARP). This is accomplished in the presence of a A.E. TRANSWARP card by setting the TRANSWARP cards Block 2 switch for the clock card's slot to OPEN. A cooling fan is also advised because of the power drawn by TRANSWARP. I did observe in one ][e that the original Apple power supply could not support the TRANSWARP and a A.E. RamWorks card. An A.E. replacement power supply (double the capacity of the original power supply) solved the problem. However, I have no hard disks connect to my Apple ][x, and have never had a clock card and a TRANSWARP in the same ][e. -- | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | ARPA: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu | | BITNET: HALP@CRNLTHRY D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5 | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
craig@lakesys.UUCP (Craig Stodolenak) (01/21/88)
A friend of mine is running a BBS on his Transwarped IIe. In it he has a
ThunderClock, 5MB Apple ProFile, and Novation Apple-Cat II modem (212 card not
in "slot-saver" mode, as he also has an AE power supply and the Cat just
doesn't seem to run correctly that way).
He also has been experiencing sporadic errors, lock-ups, file errors on the HD,
etc. When he called a local dealer, they told him to get the AE power supply,
which he did. He STILL experiences them, on the average of two per week.
His bus is "full", with an enhanced 80-col card, parallel printer card, and
floppy controller rounding things out. Heat doesn't prove to be a problem,
although he has put in a fan "just to be sure".
Apparently now, he isn't the only person to be experiencing these problems.
Just what is going on? Is it a traffic-jam on the bus? Something wrong
with the Transwarp? A lot of questions and few answers... hopefully something
can be done.
Craig Stodolenak
{ihnp4,uwvax}!uwmcsd1!lakesys!craigbuyse@convexe.UUCP (01/21/88)
In my experiences, those Cats are trouble. I owned one for awhile, and it was so frustrating that I finally sold it. The BBS operator for whom I was a consultant had the 212 version, and he had constant problems with it. The only thing I could recommend is pulling the cards out and trying to add them back in one by one (old fashioned, but predictable). He may also still have a heat problem despite the fan. Accelerators run hot as the dickens-- try popping the top off the computer and running it that way for awhile. Also make sure you have plenty of ventilation around it. -Russell Buyse. ...convex!buyse