Subject: Re: Any know problems with old CCs in A3000?
To: None <fr30@dial.pipex.com>
From: Tim Preston <tim@graywolfe.redcat.org.uk>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/18/1996 11:53:17
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> >
> > Like the subject says, any know problems with the older DMAC, RAMSEY, etc
> > in the A3000? I already have a Rev-11 Buster.
> >
> > This just that I have random HD lockups under NetBSD 1.1 Amiga stuff and
> > NetBSd 1.0 worked quite fine. There is no common factor in these lockups,
> > nor are they load realated.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Preston tim@graywolfe.redcat.org.uk
>
> I have a 3000T with:
> -04 Ramsey
> -02 DMAC
> -07 Buster
> -04 SCSI (WD33C93A)
>
> I have been running NetBSD 1.1 for a couple of months and have not had any disk
> problems (2 x Seagate, 1 x Rodime). I do get SCSI bus lockups with my Tandberg
> TDC3600 tape drive but from what I have heard, that is almost certainly a
> problem with the Tandberg rather than the Amiga (it doesn't work reliably under
> AmigaDOS either).
>
> If you are going to change anything, try upgrading the SCSI chip to a revision
> 08 if it is currently an 04. I haven't tried this, but I have seen reports that
> it resolves problems with some drive combinations.
>
>
Cheers, looks like I'll be doing that, as well as swapping out a suspect
Quantumn drive and playing with termination. the annoying thing is that it
all works fine under Intuition or NetBSD 1.0 =(
--
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