rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) (03/31/88)
What happens if someone has an A2000 with a memory expansion already in it. Then you plug the uncased 2 Meg Starboard II (using the new Microbotics adaptor ) into another Amiga slot. Will the StarBoard configure correctly, leaving you with .5 Meg CHIP and 4.5 Meg FAST. Also, when the SBII is plugged intp the A2000 using the adaptor, does it hang over and block the other slots? Also, will the SCSI driver that goes on the A1000 StarBoardII (the StarDrive?) work when the SBII is put in an A2000? Finally, and this may seem like a stupid question, what does an A2000 person do if the slots get filled? The A2000 has 3 PC slots and 4 Amiga slots plus a CPU slot (am I correct?). Now what if somone has memory boards in two slots, a bridgeboard in place, and a hard drive card. That fills all the Amiga slots. Now the accelerator board comes out. Where do you put it? In general, what do you do on the A2000 to get more expansion. And lastly, how is the A2000 custom chip upgrade going to go? Are boards replaced? Are the chips just socketed and merely have to be changed? In a similar vein, how do the KickStart/Workbench upgrades work for the A2000? Can you do it yourself, or do you have to bring it in? And the final, final question, if you have an A2000 and 1.2, how can you boot under 1.1? And once you go to 1.3, how can you boot under 1.2? Thanks in advancefor any answers! ******************************************************************************* * Richard L. Carreiro "Havlicek stole the ball!!!!" * * rlcarr@athena.mit.edu -- Johnny Most 4/15/65 * *******************************************************************************
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (03/31/88)
In article <4163@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes: |Finally, and this may seem like a stupid question, what does an A2000 person |do if the slots get filled? The A2000 has 3 PC slots and 4 Amiga slots plus |a CPU slot (am I correct?). Now what if somone has memory boards in two |slots, a bridgeboard in place, and a hard drive card. That fills all the |Amiga slots. You'll have to do the same as on an IBM XT. An XT can only be expanded using an external XT expansion chassis, which is separately powered. I have seen very few of these, but Computer Shopper still advertises some of them. You will use one of the PC slots and one of the slots on the chassis to connect the two buses. I doubt that anibody has ever tried this with an Amiga, so no promises it will work. This is just theory at this point. On the Amiga side there is currently no way to expand, unless somebody comes out with the equivalent of an Amiga side expansion chassis. |Now the accelerator board comes out. Where do you put it? Which accelerator board? The C-A 68020 board goes in the "coprocessor" slot. |And lastly, how is the A2000 custom chip upgrade going to go? |Are boards replaced? Are the chips just socketed and merely have to be |changed? If things are like described in the A500/A2000 manual, you just have to unplug the old chips (Agnus & Denise), put the new ones in, and change one jumper. | In a similar vein, how do the KickStart/Workbench upgrades work |for the A2000? Can you do it yourself, or do you have to bring it in? I guess you change 1.2 Kick by taking it out and put 1.3 Kick in the sockets. |And the final, final question, if you have an A2000 and 1.2, how can you |boot under 1.1? And once you go to 1.3, how can you boot under 1.2? YOU CANNOT boot the A2000 or the A500 with 1.1. Once you substitute the Kickstart with 1.2 that's the only one you can boot from. On the other hand one can Kick 1.2 and WB 1.3. That can be done NOW if you have the 1.3 Gamma Release. -- Marco Papa -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=