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From: chanson@isis.cs.du.edu (Chris Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Frances Woes
Summary: 'Dat RF 'll kill ya.
Keywords: RF Frances, Max, Palomax
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.182929.23757@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 18:29:29 GMT
References: <9011251927.AA11302@samba.acs.unc.edu> <1990Dec20.073313.14896@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: chanson@isis.UUCP (Chris Hanson)
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>My frances works in my "500" just fine.  I did, however, have to add some
>grounded PCB board to the underside of the frances board to get it stable.
>Seems the EMI was just too bad without the extra shielding.
 
  I had this same problem when I built a Palomax HD interface for my 500
motherboard. Since it is just a motherboard really, I built it with a
right-angle connector so that the interface would like parallel to the
motherboard. This did not work. It would work, but whenever the machine
would get cranking, it'd get flaky. During heavy IO, I could tap a key on
the keyboard (any key, even a shift key) and have a good 25% chance of that
action locking the hdgeneric8i.device up. Wasn't pretty.
 
   This makes me wonder how the CMI boards, the Supra internals RAM boards,
and the PP&S internal RAM boards handle this.
 
    Chris - Xenon

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