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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DiskFailure
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Date: 19 Oct 90 15:56:01 GMT
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  To those two people who said they were starting to have problems with their
ST506 ST-251's connected to a 2090:  I just started haveing read/write errors
after I installed a new dual serial board.  It took me a while to figure it
out but I had too much draining the power from my 2000.  I have a
flickerfixer, bridgeboard, 2090, 2 meg 16 bit RAM card, dual serial card,
68030 board with 4 megs of RAM, 2 floppies, 2 hard disks, and one 5 1/4 floppy
for the bridgecard, oh yeah, and 1 Mac 3 1/2 for A-Max.  Things were fine
until I added that dual serial board.  That was the straw that broke the
camels back.  Just not enough power to run all those beasts.  I now have an
external hard disk case with power supply and all is fine.  So the moral of
the story is:  Check to make sure you don't have too much soaking up the
power.  It seems kinda easy to think of but when it's happening you just think
the hard disk(s) are going or the controller os going.  By the way, does
anybody know why the 2000's no longer have a little shield on the mouse cord
right where it plugs into it's port?  Another by-the-way:  After getting my
dual serial board to run a JX-100 color scanner from, I found out they won't
work together.  The JX-100 software looks into the serial device to see if the
scanner is connected but when it transfers data it does not go through the
serial.device.  It goes directly to the serial port.  This makes it impossible
to change the serial.device to siosbx.device andn have the scanner send the
data to that device instead.  I can't use the dual serial board for my modem
because A-max can't access that port either, not to mention my modem games
that i would have to try to get to work.  Has anybody done anything to their
software for the JX-100 to get it to work with a dual serial board?  How about
workbench 2.0?  Does it have better support for multi-serial board in that it
might work then?  Thanks ahead of time for any help.