jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (06/06/90)
Could someone tell me where Starboard II memory gets configured! I would like to talk to someone who has managed to load the new kick into Starboard memory. Thanks Joanne Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science (716) 275-3055 Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627 INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu
rick@tmiuv0.uucp (06/07/90)
In article <7761@ur-cc.UUCP>, jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: > Could someone tell me where Starboard II memory > gets configured! I would like to talk to someone > who has managed to load the new kick into Starboard > memory. > > Thanks Joanne > > > Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science (716) 275-3055 > Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627 > INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu Well, Joanne, it rather depends on what you have on the expansion port. Typically, you'll find the StarBoard configures at $200000, but that may be different if you have other stuff on the bus. I've not tried to Kickit (1.4B3) into my SB2 on Amoeba I (my A1000). Perhaps that's something I can try. 90% of my work is now done on Amoeba II, which started out as an A2000 (small keycaps) but is now an A2500/030 with 8-Up! and HardFrame running a Seagate ST138N and a Conner CP3200. Yes, the 3200 works. No, warm boots are a bit of a problem yet. I'm working on that. "Autoconfig can be a wonderful thing!" -- Paraphrased from Peter O'Toole in "Creator" Rick Stevens, consulting for MicroBotics Author of SB2Test and co-author of MBRTest -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. / [- O] Rick Stevens (All opinions are mine. Everyone ignores them anyway.) \ | ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------| | V | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick (<-- Work (ugh!)) | |--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop (<-- Home Unix (better!)) | | uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2 (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!) | \ 75006.1355@compuserve.com (CIS: 75006,1355) (<-- CI$) / `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' "I was Caesarean born. When I leave the house, I use the window." - Steven Wright
m@applelink.apple.com (M. David Green) (06/09/90)
Well maybe you can tell me if this is a problem with my Starboard or my Amiga 1000. Separately, the A1000 hums along just fine, but I firmly attach my 1-meg Starboard II (with SCSI card) to the beast and she starts freezing and rebooting on me after 1-10 minutes. (Once I actually saw her re-boot while waiting for me to insert a Workbench disk!) Am I in for a visit to the repair shop? Is it the Starboard, the SCSI adaptor, or the A1000 I need to have repaired? -M. -------------------- My opinions are mine, my management's are theirs, and yours are yours; we apologize for any confusion.
maverick@floopy.UUCP (Thomas Schwarz) (06/09/90)
>Could someone tell me where Starboard II memory >gets configured! I would like to talk to someone >who has managed to load the new kick into Starboard >memory. > The StarBoard II memory is mapped in at $200000 for the lower deck and $e90000 for the upper deck. This will allow the kick image file to load into the StarBoard II. The only thing is, it must be the first device off of the Amiga 1000 expansion slot. P.S. This is how it was mapped on my system with a CLtd. HD Controller on the system too. >Thanks Joanne > > > Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science (716) 275-3055 > Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627 > INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu -- ____ / / / Amiga 1000 | Thomas "Maverick" Schwarz - Sirius Software / / / The Machine | Box 349 Caromar Dr. Mars, PA 16046 ____ / / / That Made It | (412) 443-8916 \ \ \/ / / Possible! | \ \/ / / -- |UUCP: {allegra,cadre}!pitt!darth!floopy!maverick \/_/_/ First! | or: ...uunet!nfsun!eklektik!thomas
billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (06/10/90)
In article <7761@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
:Could someone tell me where Starboard II memory
:gets configured! I would like to talk to someone
:who has managed to load the new kick into Starboard
:memory.
The Starboard autoconfigs at the first available memory location
just like any other autoconfig memory device. It should be located at
$200000 on a 1000. Note that to use it to kick 2.0, it *must* be the
first device on the buss. You can't have a hard drive physically located
before it. Put your other expansion peripherals on the outside of your
Starboard.
: Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science (716) 275-3055
: Room 274 Meliora Hall, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627
: INTERNET: jea@cvs.rochester.edu
-Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
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In article <8623@goofy.Apple.COM>, m@applelink.apple.com (M. David Green) writes: > References:<7761@ur-cc.UUCP> <2187@tmiuv0.uucp> > > Well maybe you can tell me if this is a problem with my Starboard or my > Amiga 1000. > > Separately, the A1000 hums along just fine, but I firmly attach my 1-meg > Starboard II (with SCSI card) to the beast and she starts freezing and > rebooting on me after 1-10 minutes. Oy! Gotta rewind the tape on this one! Ah, well. The A1000 expansion port is a strange beast. LOTS(!!) of problems started to occur with a number of systems as soon as you added _anything_ to the port. The most common problems were caused by two things: weak (low drive current capability) PALs and/or poor grounding of the PALs on the Amiga. Your shop will know what I mean. Commodore changed vendors a couple of times with the PALs. One of these vendors' chips didn't have the oomph to drive the expansion port properly, hence there were all kinds of weirdness going on. Since you mention the fact that it warms up then poops out, I'd suspect that you have one of the grounding problems (either cold solder joints or inadequate grounding of the PALs). Once the system warms up, the connections get flakey. Trying to fix either problem is not for the faint of heart. If you're qualified to wield a soldering iron and have good intestinal fortitude, you might have a go at retouching the grounds on the PALs as a first try. I would __STRONGLY__ suggest that you take your baby to the shop and let them do it. -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. / [- O] Rick Stevens (All opinions are mine. Everyone ignores them anyway.) \ | ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------| | V | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick (<-- Work (ugh!)) | |--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop (<-- Home Unix (better!)) | | uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2 (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!) | \ 75006.1355@compuserve.com (CIS: 75006,1355) (<-- CI$) / `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' "I was Caesarean born. When I leave the house, I use the window." - Steven Wright