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From: a774@mindlink.UUCP (Wayde Police)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Bridgeboards
Message-ID: <2546@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 05:34:03 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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While I am not using a Sota386 in my Bridgeboard, I am using a Sota286i.
Initially I had problems with Jlinking, and with Atime and Amouse. It is easy
to get the 'turbo' BB to operate properly though. A command called Sota286i
came with my Sota that allows toggling on/off various system caching. If you
set up a batch file to turn off System Bios Caching (ie. Sota286i /noBios) and
then execute the various Janus/BB utilities, it will work. At the end of your
batch file simply restart system bios caching (ie. Sota286i /Bios). The Janus
utilities seem to be very timing critical.
  A few extra comments here ...
        generally my Sota286i works great! It even ran Windows 3.0 with Amouse
rather nicely!
        give at least 16k of DOS memory to hard drive caching if you have a
hard drive, if not, your HD performance will actually go down.
        call all janus setup utilities (amouse, atime, jlink) within a batch
file ... see above.
        it seems to help to run PCDisk, AMouse, and TimeServ (on the Amiga
side) after the BB is fully booted, too early seems to confuse matters.
        use the Sota286i.sys device driver instead of the toggle switch.

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