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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A3000 and WB2.0 --- HELP!!!
Keywords: a3000,wb2.0,ram,memory,bru
Message-ID: <14538@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 16:50:09 GMT
References: <1788@nemesis.stsci.edu> <1990Sep18.190542.25968@agora.uucp> <1990Sep19.000307.4728@uokmax.uucp>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep19.000307.4728@uokmax.uucp> drtiller@uokmax.uucp (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes:
>For all of you 3000 owners who will want to maintain the ability to boot into
>1.3, be sure to retain a copy of the 512K 1.3.2 kickstart for use with
>SetCPU.  The Kickstart used in the 500,1000 and 2000 machines IS NOT the same
>as that used in the 3000.  

That's certainly true.

>A special version had to be hacked for the 3000 to run 1.3.  

Actually, that's not the reason.  Plain old 256K 1.3 works just fine on an
A3000, but it doesn't know anything about the 3000's hard disk or Fast memory.
So the special version adds in modules to manages these items.

>This is why the 3000s 2.0 will not run on the other machines.  

The 3000's 2.0 won't run on other machines because it has an A3000-specific
module which panics if the hardware it expects isn't there.  Much the same
way the generic startup code panics if it finds a Chip RAM or CIA failure.

>For future reference, keep a grip on that 1.3 kickstart because the rest of 
>us won't be able to help you boot into 1.3 after 2.0 is in ROM if you lose it.

Again, you could run standard 1.3.  I still have an A3000 or two around here
with a pair of A2000 1.3 ROMs plugged in, no problem.  Unless, of course,
you want a hard disk and/or object to having to AddMem the extra A3000 RAM.



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