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From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix Almost works on my A3000!
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Date: 13 Mar 91 00:13:18 GMT
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eb15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward D. Berger) writes:

>I just received my Amiga Minix package today, so I took the diskette I made
>from the update in /pub/raymond on ftp.cs.vu.nl, and tried booting up on my
>A3000. (AmigaOS disk installed with 1 line s:startup-sequence)
...
>It locked up here, so I try again this time with the write protect on.
>I can now log in as "ast" and ls the files. Wow!

Great! This is our first version with support for all Motorola processors,
and it seems to work pretty well. We've tested it with the 68000 and 68010,
and after your posting i'm pretty sure that it will work with the 68020
and 68030 processors as well. I'm not sure about the cause of the lockups,
it could be a timing problem with the faster processor, it should not
(directly) have anything to do with the protectedness of th floppies.

>Console messages keep showing up like:
>  A590: INST=00 CNTR=78 XT=FFE0

That's debugging output (it's a beta test version).

>When will the diffs be available for the hardrive & 680x0 support?

As soon as we have produced a final version, we will include  source (diffs).
One of the things that obviously didn't work on your a3000 is the harddisk
driver (I read the mail that you sent to Raymond Michiels). He just made
a new version which shouuld work better, could you please ftp it again, from the
same place (ftp.cs.vu.nl, diretory /pub/raymond), and give it a try?

Regards,

	Steven Reiz

PS: Thanks to the guys at M.I.T. for the use of one of their terminals,
even if some of the keys don't seem to work as they should...