bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) (04/17/89)
I'm really hoping someone out there can help with this.
First, I've been trying to get my Lucas board to work since January
when I finally got it built. It has always worked, but I could never
get it to behave in a stable manner with my Spirit 1.5Meg board inside.
I built a bus-terminator a couple of days ago and it finally worked!!!
Yeah! ( thanx Brad )
BUT! In the interm, I bought a Supra 4x4 controller ( with an Adaptek
board and a Seagate 40M drive ) and now that I finally got the memory
to behave with Lucas, Lucas bombs with the Supra controller on.
Symptoms:
- it does not consistently get to the kickstart loading with any of
the chips I tried and with the Supra connected with the terminator.
- assuming it gets that far, it will spuriously crash with random and
wierd errors ( 000000004.?, 00000000a.? ) very quickly.
- if I try to run SupraMount it hangs ... no Guru sometimes.
Yuck.
My first impulse:
"Hi, how much for a 2500? $5100? Yikes!"
Second impulse:
"For sale: one Lucas board, works fine."
I really want an 020 and 881, especially if and when the ram board
comes out, but I want the hard drive more!!!
Third impulse:
"For sale: one Lucas board, one Amiga 1000, Spirit inboard, ..."
"Hi, I'd like to order a 2500"
But I like my 1000!!! I like kickstart, I a morbid sort of way.
*sigh*
Any ideas????
- a bemused Blair
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in article <13332@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) says: > My first impulse: > "Hi, how much for a 2500? $5100? Yikes!" I'm probably the last guy who knows about retail prices, but I'm sure you can get these for under $4000, at least. > "Hi, I'd like to order a 2500" > But I like my 1000!!! I like kickstart, I a morbid sort of way. > Any ideas???? With an MMU, you can get many of the features of KickStart, plus more, if you're willing to burn a chunk of your memory for this. I have a program called "SetCPU", freely redistributable, which currently lets you spend about 260K of 32 bit memory to speed up your system by making the ROM kernel run in this 32 bit memory. I'm currently testing a version that does this in a slightly more sophisticated way, and also speeds up a few more things, like hard disk performance with a 2090A. It's theoretically possible to actually start up with a KickStart disk or something similar, using the same MMU techniques, though it's something I haven't pursued. > - a bemused Blair -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession