sbmueller@trillium.waterloo.edu (Stephler();) (12/06/88)
The scenario: UW student spends three hours at World Of Commodore Show,
spends lots of as-yet unearned money on new toys for his
Amiga 1000. Something doesn't work quite right.
I've had a Comspec AX2000 RAM board for about a year now, never had
any problems. At the show mentioned above, I purchased the Comspec SCSI
Host Adaptor, planning on buying a SCSI disk RSN. When both RAM and SCSI
are connected, I get the sorts of symptoms I seem to remember require
grounding PALs to be fixed. (Excuse English of previous sentence.)
Things like: frequent lockups, usually within a minute of booting, almost
always returned to the KickStart prompt. The clock module in the SCSI Host
is occasionally reset as well. Using either the SCSI Host or memory alone, ie
without the other attached works wonderfully. (Well, as well as can be
expected without a real hard disk to do anything with)
Questions: Am I right about grounding PALs? If so, some details on the
actual procedure would be appreciated.
Does anyone know if Comspec plans on using the new official method of
reading filesystems from disk, so that I won't need to keep an SFS
partition at all? They've got it reading Kickstart from the HardDisk,
a filesystem should be a piece of cake.
Any personal favourite drives in the 40MB range anyone can recommend I buy?
Any hints on what the problem might be, if I'm wrong about grounding PALs.
I realize it shouldn't matter, but is there a 'better' order to attach
the devices in question (ie, should the RAM be connected to the Amiga,
and the SCSI to the RAM, or the SCSI to the Amiga and the RAM to the SCSI?
Any help is appreciated.
stephler();
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