THOMAS%HUJIDS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Shimko) (08/08/89)
Hello !
A friend of my that has a A1000 and a SideCar would like info on expansion
for his Amiga. He said to me that when he got his and pluged it in the
sidecar didn't worked allthough the expansion has a passthrough . Help
appriciated .
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In article <21230@louie.udel.EDU>, THOMAS%HUJIDS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Shimko) writes: > Hello ! > > A friend of my that has a A1000 and a SideCar would like info on expansion > for his Amiga. He said to me that when he got his and pluged it in the > sidecar didn't worked allthough the expansion has a passthrough . Help > appriciated . > I assume this is an A1000... the problem is probably one of two things. First, there are a couple PAL's on the daughterboard which are too slow to handle more than about 1 expansion device on most stock 1000's. These should be replaced with faster ones if you have more than one expansion device. Also, all the pals should be grounded. I ca supply detailed information if you think this is the problem & want to make some modifications. -- James A. Treworgy "You should have seen me with the poker man, jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu I had a honey and I bet a grand, jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET Just in the nick of time I looked at his hand" Box 5033 Wesleyan Station -Paul McCartney Middletown, CT 06475
bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan) (08/09/89)
In article <21230@louie.udel.EDU> THOMAS%HUJIDS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Shimko) writes: >Hello ! > >A friend of my that has a A1000 and a SideCar would like info on expansion >for his Amiga. He said to me that when he got his and pluged it in the >sidecar didn't worked allthough the expansion has a passthrough . Help >appriciated . > I had the same problem about 2 years ago. After talking with CBM i found out that the sidecar isn't designed to handle being passed through. Supposedly, the timing involved with the sidecar is too critical to handle anything else on the bus. So, I spent the money on memory and a SCSI harddrive and I only use the sidecar when I really need it which isn't that often. Bear -- ------------------------ Signature Version 0.2 ------------------------------ Disclaimer: I'm the one you're mother wants you to marry. Blair "Bear" Burtan, Boston University's Resident Amiga Expert which isn't saying much. bear@bucsb.edu bear@bucsf.edu bear@buengf.edu bear@bu-pub.edu enge05c@buacca.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (08/13/89)
In Message <3038@bucsb.UUCP>, bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan) writes: >In article <21230@louie.udel.EDU> THOMAS%HUJIDS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Shimko) writes: >>Hello ! >> >>A friend of my that has a A1000 and a SideCar would like info on expansion >>for his Amiga. He said to me that when he got his and pluged it in the >>sidecar didn't worked allthough the expansion has a passthrough . Help >>appriciated . >> >I had the same problem about 2 years ago. After talking with >CBM i found out that the sidecar isn't designed to handle being >passed through. Supposedly, the timing involved with the sidecar >is too critical to handle anything else on the bus. So, I spent >the money on memory and a SCSI harddrive and I only use the sidecar >when I really need it which isn't that often. When I was using a 1000-SideCar setup I used an "INSIDER" (the real one) to gain memory expansion and a MS-DOS XT hard drive controller to get hard drives on the system. Of course it didn't autoboot, but back then the 2000 didn't exist either. A friend is now using that set up with the Janus 2.0 software and its a real smooth system. Highly recommenred for those who have a 1000 & SideCar looking for expansion . . . . Sneakers -- ___ Dan "Sneakers" Schein //// BERKS AMIGA BBS Sneakers Computing //// 80+ Megs of software & messages 2455 McKinley Ave. ___ //// 12/2400 Baud - 24 Hrs West Lawn, PA 19609 \\\\ //// 215/678-7691 \\\\//// {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers