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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A2630 board
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Date: 29 Mar 90 16:16:22 GMT
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  I just purchased your 68030 board through the student discount offered by
Commodore.  It is very slick and I am very impressed.  I have your SetCPU
program also but there are a few questions and problems.  Before I start: I
have a B2000 with 1 meg agnus, 2 megs of 16 bit RAM and the 2 megs of 32 bit
RAM that came on your '030 board, 8088 bridgeboard, and 2090 (not "a") hard
disk controller.  For the hard disk controller I have purchased the Centaur
autobooting card that takes up an Amiga slot and lets the hard disk autoboot. 
Ok, the first question is abou the caching and burst mode.  Should I set the
instruction cache *and* the data cache, neither, or either, same question
about the burst modes.  Two:  When I use the CARDROM option like this "CARDROM
s:CardROMList" (I have a file called that in my S: dir just like you said, and
it looks like this "0x202 0x01 0x010000 0x10000 0x10000
CBM_2090_Disk_Controller") and SetCPU doesn't give any error that it can't
find anything but it also doesn't say anything about *doing* anything because
I use the VERBOSE option like your instrucions alos said.  Am I doing anything
wrong there, and can I do the same for the 2630 ROMS & my 2 meg 16 bit RAM
ROMS & my bridgeboard ROMs?  Three: The KICKROM command doesn't work with
Kickstart 1.1, but it does with 1.2 and 1.3, I do "SetCPU KICKROM df0: CONFIG
0" (I've also tried CONFIG 1, and CONFIG 2, but they don't work either).  AM i
doinf something wrong or is there a problem with the version of Kickstart and
your board, or both?  And finally Four:  Does the 32 bit RAM map itself into
$200000 and map the 2 megs of 16 bit RAM into $400000?  I've used a couple of
programs to show me the memory lists biut I don't know which one is which.
What does MergeMem (the command in the system drawer of workbench) do to the
two memory section (af anything at all).  The largest still says around 1.8
megs even when I use meremem and type "avail".  Sorry for so many questions
and thank you for such a well designed product.