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From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can You Use A 2000 24 Hours A Day?
Message-ID: <18283@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:35:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.18283
References: <6113@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1957@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
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drues@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes:
>j_parsons@csc32.enet.dec.com writes:
>>>Are there any problems with leaving an Amiga 2000 on 24 hours a day?
>
>>I've run my 2000 on a 24x7 basis for the last 3 or 4 months; during that time 
>>I've powered the machine down maybe 3 times total. Of course, I do live in an 
>>area where the power is exceptionally stable.
>
>For that matter, anyone know about the A1000 being left on 24hr/day???

Sure do.  I use mine as a terminal and leave it on all the time.  I decided
to start leaving it on when I got my new hard drive and ( due to numerous
suggestions ) wanted to leave it on.  Right now it has a LUCAS/FRANCES combo
in it and has been on like that for 4 days.  My only beefs with my system are:
	- I have a CDC Wren III drive, which is running hideously slow due
	  to a non-DMA Controller ( Comspec A1000 )
	  I mean, we're talking a diskperf of 180K/sec as the biggest number
	  diskperf spit out!!!
	  ( with LUCAS/FRANCES, that went up into the 300ish range )

	- my LUCAS/FRANCES only runs at 12MHz.  Any electrically minded people
	  have any suggestions?  The symptoms are simple:  at 16 or 20 Mhz,
	  it give random GURUs after random ( in the range of 1-5 minutes )
	  amounts of time.  At 12 MHz it's solid.

Of course, if the A2024 will work with all this, I will be a happy camper
when it comes out!  ( remember, my main use is as a terminal ) 
-- 
-- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student )
-- bmacintyre@{watcgl, watdragon, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca}