Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: a3000 questions... Message-ID: <1991May8.162146.24619@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 8 May 91 16:21:46 GMT References: <3860@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 41 In article <3860@ux.acs.umn.edu> mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--) writes: >I've been accumulating questions for a while, and I just thought I'd >bother to ask a couple. Just for the reccord: This is an a3000 25/50, >with the hard drive replaced w/ a 100 meg version. I have 2 internal >floppies, an A2232 serial card, and a 1950 monitor. > >1] Is there any driver better than "epsonx" for a Citizen 200Gx printer? Try EpsonQ. That is what we use on the Citizen 240 printer. >3] When I boot 1.3, I get "Battery backed up Clock not found" and yet the > system time is correct. Huh? Do you usually boot up at midnight? :) >4] Even with the multiscan monitor, both SuperHiRes-Interlace and > Productivity-Interlace flicker heavily, and SuperHiRes looses a lot This could be the type of interface connection between the monitor and the Amiga. > of image data (i.e., some vertical columns seem to be getting lost)... With the higher resolutions, some verticle columns disappear on our system as well, so I think it is unavoidable with the current graphics output. Either that or my a3000 is mesed up too. :) >And, of course, is there any efficient way to back up hard drives? If you haven't used BRU, try using Quarterback, or one of those public domain hard drives back up programs. >--SeebS-- -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.