wolff@cs.purdue.EDU (Robert M. Wolff) (02/05/89)
From article <1356@agora.UUCP>, by billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour): > [ much talk about my GROSS comment on the 020 board which DOES NOT > exist from CMI...sorry... ] > > ....I'm sure he was just thinking of the Processor > Accelerator, which is a 68000 speedup board. ---> Yep...that's what I was thinking of...sor I bought one...put it in last night... Now, Bill, I have one problem...on a few tries of booting, I got about 5 tracks into reading my kickstart disk, and then the 'kickstart' screen would come back up...I tried many different kickstart disks which I knew worked, and finally one of them worked...hmm...so I turned off the machine, rebooted, and 1.3 boot worked fine...hmm...I *RARELY* turn off my machine because I run a BBS, so I wont be testing this out any further, but I was wondering if you knew of any problems in this area and could suggest a fix of some sort... Has anyone else had this problem with the CMI PA board?? Thanks, bob -- -=-=-=- Insert Standard Disclaimer Here, Please... -=-=-=- /************* MS-Dos? Me? No, You must be mistaken! *************/
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (02/12/89)
From article <5977@medusa.cs.purdue.edu:, by wolff@cs.purdue.EDU (Robert M. Wolff):
: Now, Bill, I have one problem...on a few tries of booting, I got about
: 5 tracks into reading my kickstart disk, and then the 'kickstart' screen
: would come back up...I tried many different kickstart disks which I knew
: worked, and finally one of them worked...hmm...so I turned off the
: machine, rebooted, and 1.3 boot worked fine...hmm...I *RARELY* turn off
: my machine because I run a BBS, so I wont be testing this out any
: further, but I was wondering if you knew of any problems in this area
: and could suggest a fix of some sort...
Hmmm, I don't have any machines that still use Kickstart, but I
imagine I would have heard *lots* about a problems like that! :) There
were a few PAs shipped with bad Thompson processor chips (Date codes from
8813 through 8832) and they would show up as 'read/write' errors on floppy
drives. That may be what you're experiencing. Take a look at the PA and
make sure that you either have a Motorola processor or one of the older
(8801, 8805 or 8810) Thompson processors. If you have one of the bad chips,
just give us a call for an RMA number. If you have the good processor,
and still see the problem, give us a call and we'll try to figure out what
else it could be. (BTW, what speed do you have it set up to default to?
It might make a difference if you have it in 'forced 14MHz' mode.)
: Has anyone else had this problem with the CMI PA board??
Not that I know of... But then I don't do much of the technical support.
I leave all that to Lilliane. :)
: Thanks,
: bob
:
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