news@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Net news owner) (01/28/89)
From: trantow@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Path: csd4.milw.wisc.edu!trantow Brad, I ordered 5 boards for a group of Amiga hackers here in Brew Town. It took us a while to get the first one running because we figured it was safer to try it with out the 881. When we got brave enough to put the 881 in, things went a lot faster. We got all five boards to run on a bare Amiga. Three of them would only work with 7474s and two worked with 74LS74s. We are all using 16Mhz parts at 18.2 or 18.5Mhz. Some abnormalities we noticed were my machine with KickROMs sometimes comes up with a green screen, (about 50% of the time) We were also unable to get an Amega Memory board from Progressive Peripherals to work on either of two machines with any of the five boards. The symtom was showing the kickstart screen, loading up Kickstart, and then right before the WorkBench Screen is supposed to pop up the power light starts blinking and it seems to go into some loop. We were seriously bummed since two fellows had the Amega expansion memory. Anyway one guy took his board home and it works with his machine and his Amega memory and the other gentleman sold his Amega to pay for his LUCAS board + some extra cash for 32 bit memory. FYI my LUCAS board is running just fine with KickRoms, the Erving Hack, a 5.25 floppy and Supra SCSI. We have one unsolved problem with a Cltd SCSI and Microbotics Memory board. On this particular system, neither the Cltd or Microbotics will work. Both will up to the point where the WorkBench picture is about to come up and then the power light will flash. If WorkBench figure does come up we get a GURU soon afterwards. By the way, WHAT are the jumpers for???? _____________________________________________ In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.