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From: svante@kberg.se (Svante Gellerstam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Serious problems with A3000 parallel port! (REPOST)
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.150045.4461@kberg.se>
Date: 19 Jan 91 15:00:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.221415.3001@kberg.se> <26381@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
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In article <26381@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:

>In article <1991Jan15.221415.3001@kberg.se> svante@kberg.se (Svante Gellerstam) writes:

>>During the use of the Amiga 3000 we have seen some problems regarding
>>the parallell interface. The problem manifests itself by lost
>>characters and hung printers. An example:

>No such problem with either ProPage or PageStream on an A500 with
>a CSA MMR 33MHz 030 with 2 megs of 32bit RAM...

Hmm, maybe the A3000 has some slightly different timing in the access
of the chips. Btw, does the IO ports reside in 32-bit memory? As it is
the centronics interface, even microseconds can cause problems...

>John  M.  Adams   --**--   Professional Student on the seven-year plan!     ///
>Internet:   jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu   -or-   vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu    ///
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Svante Gellerstam		svante@kberg.se, d87sg@efd.lth.se