Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:66266 comp.sys.amiga.tech:14503 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!stsci!scott From: scott@stsci.EDU (Jim Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: A3000 and WB2.0 --- HELP!!! Keywords: a3000,wb2.0,ram,memory,bru Message-ID: <1788@nemesis.stsci.edu> Date: 18 Sep 90 06:28:46 GMT Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 Lines: 115 hiya folks -- first let me say thanks to all of you who answered my posting in june in which i asked "why buy an amiga" and which model. i wound up buying a 3000! i love it! but .... i am having problems and need answers! maybe some of you kind folk (particularly those who own 3000) might be able to answer. ^l 1. i noticed in magazines featuring the wb2.0 that the title bar which gives memory information that they all have slews more memory than i do. at first i thought 'well, maybe they have extra ram installed. this weekend i was at a users meeting at valley forge, pa where various companies had the 3000 demonstrating hard/software. all of them, too, had huge amounts more memory than i. well i asked one of the fellows, and he was at a loss to explain the difference. tonight i noticed in my "using the system software" manual that came with the machine that all the sample wb pictures had more memory! this is getting ridiculous. normally, i might drop it, but i have been having problems which indicate that my memory is low (see 2., below) lemme give you the figures... my machine: 944000 graphics 193000 other amiga world: (10/90 pg 60) 944160 graphics 2256648 other manual (2-41) 942480 graphics 1274024 other at the expo 941000 graphics 2120000 other ^l now, okay, the 'graphics' memory seems in line, but! my 'other' memory is like 1/10th of everybody else! another curious point is that my "ram disk" title bar always shows 100% full! as a double check, i downloaded several memory test programs from some bb's and got weird answers (all consistant...like .... size in use avail chip: 1,040,152 69,232 970,920 fast 0 0 0 $c00 0 0 0 >16m 524,256 198,616 325,640 -------------------------- 1.564meg 267,848 1.3meg ^l can it be that my machine isn't 'seeing' a 1meg chip? can it be that it was never installed? did my "authorized dealer" swindle me? what can i do? 2. i have tried backing up my hard disk. since the tool "hdbackup" is not available yet, c= has given 3000 owners bru. when i try to use the compress option (-z) i get about 5 floppies into it and get a ram disk full error. wierd. it is writting to df0. what has ram got to do it? it does say in the manual, do not attempt the comp- ression if you have <= 512k ram. well, that shouldn't be a problem! bru _will_ do the whole backup perfectly fine if i do not compress (37 floppies! yikes!) i watch the title bar while doing this. most of the time i see the 'graphics' memory oscillate between 800,000 and 600,000. but at five floppies i watch it drain...down... down .... down ... to about 10,000 and then bloop ram full error and a reboot for me. ^l have other 3000 owners had problems with bru? the command i use is: bru -c -l "blah blah" -vz work: (work is my hard disk partion for general use, system2.0 and system1.3 are other partitions) 3. i, too, never got amigavision. it was not in the box, nor was there a coupon! (i ordered it in july through the educational discount and got it the end of august.) when i found out i was supposed to get it, the dealer sent me the wait 4-46 weeks coupon. it has been 5 weeks, we'll see ...) 4. friends of mine who have the 1000 and 500 all got basic. i find it nowhere on my system, nor is mentioned in the documentation. does c= no longer provide basic? how come? ^l 5. when is the real wb2.0 comming? will i need to bring the machine in to the dealer? will i still have the option of booting with 1.3? (i hope so) 6. by the way, c= never showed up at that users expo they were having in valley forge that i mentioned before (about an hour away from thier place.) people were pissed, and i don't blame 'em. the host didn't show up for their own party. thanks in advance for any and all *help* jim scott scott@stsci.edu ps. if my ^L's don't come out, sorry. we're having trouble ....