| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hi, I just receieved a new Mircobotics 8-Up board from Abel Supply yesterday and am having a problem. The new memory (4m) works fine if the board is placed after my C-LTD SCSI (can't remember what model, about 2 years old 'Moe special') controller on the bus. (mem diags run ok., etc). However, I need to have the 8-up board in the first slot.(testing 1.4) When the 8-up board is in the first slot with no other boards present, everything is still ok. If I put the C-LTD card in any other slot I can't even boot the machine. All I see is a grey screen with no activity on df0: and the power light flashes. No guru message, no nothing. Any ideas? Is it more likely that the problem is the C-LTD or 8-UP board? Hate to have to send the 8-UP board back again (1st one had bad chips) Good excuse to go out and get an A2091? ;^) Thanks. Jerry
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| 3553.1 | It's the C-LTD thingie... | FROCKY::BALZER | Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029 | Tue Mar 06 1990 11:57 | 13 |
Re: .0
Yeah, I still remember those suckers... This generation of C-LTD
controllers have a faulty autoconfig circuitry which will allow
them only to work in the leftmost slot. I dunno if a fix is
possible/available.
Looks like a perfectly good excuse to me for getting a 'real'
controller. ;-)
Regards,
<CB>
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| 3553.2 | If I scap the C-LTD... | SMAUG::LINDSEY | Tue Mar 06 1990 15:29 | 13 | |
re: -1 Thanks.
That brings me to my next question. If I go for the
A2091, what is a 'decent' price? Back about a month ago I called
around to the mail order houses (only Briwall had it then) but ended up
getting the best quote at Omnitek (Salem?,Mass) for $499 populated with
2m of 100ns memory. Is that reasonable or has anyone heard of better
prices (mail order or eastern Mass./southern N.H)?
Thanks.
Jerry
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