RSK100@PSUVM.BITNET (11/04/88)
I know there aren't many Sidecar owners out there, but if anyone has experience
with one, I'd like some help.. Commodore Tech service was clueless...
I have a 20 meg Plus hardcard, which works fine. The default address of the buf
fer to the amiga is at $E000. In this location, everything is fine, but when I
reboot the sidecar, it locks up.. Without the hard card, it reboots fine.
If I change the address to $D000, the sidecar reboots fine, but the amiga inter
face software AKA janus system won't recognize it at all. So I can't use the
hard drive on the amiga side, unless I have the sidecar set at $E000.
If someone knows what I can do to make the hard card reboot at $E000, or modify
janus.device or whatever to work at $D000, please help me..
Thank you...
Randy Katz (working on a signature file)bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) (11/08/88)
In article <59690RSK100@PSUVM> RSK100@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I have a 20 meg Plus hardcard, which works fine. The default address of the buf >fer to the amiga is at $E000. In this location, everything is fine, but when I >reboot the sidecar, it locks up.. Without the hard card, it reboots fine. > >If I change the address to $D000, the sidecar reboots fine, but the amiga inter >face software AKA janus system won't recognize it at all. So I can't use the >hard drive on the amiga side, unless I have the sidecar set at $E000. > >If someone knows what I can do to make the hard card reboot at $E000, or modify > janus.device or whatever to work at $D000, please help me.. > Some PC hard cards have there eproms set for addresses other than $C800. If your hardcard is not set for $c800, try that. The sidecar should be able to workwith a memory window of d000. A memory window of A000 will not allow the special software such as jlink and aread/awrite to work. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bill Koester (CATS) >>Commodore Amiga Technical Support<< Commodore International Ltd. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!bill PHONE (215) 431-9355 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The official word, is NO. I am therefore going anyway! Kirk - Star Trek IV Pleese desrigard eny spealing airors!!!!!!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara) (11/09/88)
In article <59690RSK100@PSUVM> RSK100@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I have a 20 meg Plus hardcard, which works fine. The default address of the buf >fer to the amiga is at $E000. In this location, everything is fine, but when I >reboot the sidecar, it locks up.. Without the hard card, it reboots fine. > >If someone knows what I can do to make the hard card reboot at $E000, or modify > janus.device or whatever to work at $D000, please help me.. Our experience with Plus hardcards during compatibility testing showed a six minute reboot time on both the Sidecar and Bridgeboard. We suspected, but could never verify, a conflict with the Phoenix BIOS we're using on both systems. > Randy Katz (working on a signature file) -- ======================================================================== Joe O'Hara || Comments represent my own opinions, Commodore Electronics Ltd || not my employers. Any similarity to Software QA || to any other opinions, living or dead, || is purely coincidental. ========================================================================
lgulyas@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas) (02/17/89)
I seem to have an annoying problem with my Sidecar. It seems that each time I open up my PC Color screen on the IBM, and am working with it for a while, the IBM screen will freeze up for a second. Then all of a sudden the top 1/4 of the screen will turn into reverse text spaces ( ie white blocks in every other space). When running some programs it would do this every 2-3 seconds. This has become quite annoying. The other problem is that the IBM screen will sometimes get random characters appearing on the screen. I am using 4 text colors on the IBM Color screen emulation with 512K. The ROM BIOS is dated version 2.06. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Laszlo Gulyas