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From: blf@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Bill Frandsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Bridgeboard questions...
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.034710.11646@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 03:47:10 GMT
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I have a couple of questions regarding the bridgeboard.  My system consists
of an Amiga2000/6.2 motherboard, ECS Agnes, 2 Megs fast ram, A2088 BB.

I also have a CMI 14.28 MHZ processor accelerator installed, with a 68881
co-processor.  (This is the board that pops in the 68000 socket, not the
CPU expansion slot)

My first question is:  Why can't I use the Bridgeboard with the accelerator
on?  I have to leave it at 7.14 MHz.  Any attempts at any point running the
toggling program will cause the bridgeboard janus software to crash.  If I
accelerate the machine at boot time, the system cannot find the command.com
file, and will refuse to boot from anything except the 5.25" disk.  If I
switch the speed after booting, file writes will cause corrupted blocks on the
hard disk and/or full IBM system crashes.

I should also mention that I have a Supra WordSync Hard Card with a ST-157N1
(48meg/28ms) drive attached.  I have 39Megs partitioned with FFS for the Amiga
with auto-boot from KS1.3.  I have a 8 meg partition set for the Bridgeboard
that has a 7.9 meg file in it created as a psuedo hard-drive as specified
in the Janus 2.0 software manual.

Is the speed increase affecting the Bridgeboard, or is it affecting the
Supra WordSync controller?  Since the BB seems to still work with floppies,
I am now beginning to assume it is the HD controller.  If anyone else
has expierenced similar problems, I would appreciate a solution.  Is there
a flag I can set in the config portion of the Supra Utilities to let it
work with the faster processor?  (The wierd thing is that I have no problems
with accessing any file on the Amiga partition with the increased speed!)

2nd BB question:  How come some times after working on the BB, and switching
windows to the Amiga (like the CLI), when I type, only ALT characters
seem to appear.  Same thing goes for the term program, or word processor
on the Amiga side.  I sometimes can get it out of this lock, but often have to
reboot the Amiga.  (No CAPS LOCK isn't down) :)

3rd question:  How come Janus insists at looking at the A: drive all the time?
It is very annoying to be working on the C: drive, moving files, zipping
stuff, or running Quatto, and any time it comes to accessing C:, the light for
A: comes on, and it sits there for about 20 seconds, unless I put in a disk
for it to read, then it goes on its merry way.  Also, it sits there for about
20 seconds at boot time before booting from the C: partition.  Is there a
way to alter the time required that it hunts these drives?  It is really
annoying.

Any help is appreciated.  Don't mail me---the mailer here is broken for
incomming messages right now, it will just bounce.  Please post if it
is of importance for others.  Thanks.