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From: mike_myke_schwartz@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AMAX II Problems
Message-ID: <34347@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 09:18:32 GMT
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Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I am a recent purchaser of AMAX II.  I would like to report some problems that
I am having with the product.  If someone out there has found solutions to
these, I would appreciate a reply!

First of all, my system is:
	A2630 (68030, 25MHz, 4MB 32-bit RAM)
	Fat Agnus
	GVP Impact-80 (just upgraded to FAAASTROM)
	Syquest 44MB removable hard disk drive

Now for the problems

1.	Even though I have the latest and greatest GVP ROMs, I cannot
	format either a Syquest drive or a partition on my 80MB drive
	and use it with AMAX at ALL.  I called ReadySoft and they told
	me that GVP has a problem with Syquest drives.  I called GVP and
	they said ReadySoft has the problem.  My dealer, HT Electronics
	mentioned that Commodore itself says that the Syquest drives have
	a problem.  I called Syquest and they say that they will supply
	me with a ROM replacement.  Commodore says that this ROM will
	also improve the reliability of the Syquest drive.  The Amiga
	has no problem using either the 80MB drive or the Syquest...

2.	When I click on the "use workbench" colors option on the startup
	AMAX screen, I end up with white text on a black background
	instead of black on white which is what my workbench colors are.
	This is really stupid of AMAX to not just use the colors the way
	I set them instead of inverting colors 0 and 1 in my workbench 
	palette.

3.	ZTerm does not work under AMAX II.  It crashes during ZModem
	transfer.

I did not find either GVP or ReadySoft to be of any help to me and
I did not get an answer or an idea of when we would have a fixed
driver from either.

Good luck to anyone else out there who has a GVP controller.