Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!drysdale From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 and AT Bridgboard Message-ID: <21624@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 May 91 00:31:44 GMT References: <21523@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991May15.093100.10112@cc.newcastle.edu.au> <21617@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 66 In article <21617@cbmvax.commodore.com> drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) writes: >In article <1991May15.093100.10112@cc.newcastle.edu.au> birjt@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes: >>Hello, >> I have just put a '286 bridgeboard in the A3000 here at work. Their >>idea not mine! The set up included a hard disk controller as well which >>had to go in the slot below the BB. This works fine except that the floppy >>controller on the BB itself seems to be unavailable while the controller >>card is in place. This was no real problem as the controller card had its >>own floppy controller as well, which I used. >> >> Now my main problems are: >> 1) I can't get windows to install, although I hear there is >> way to get aroung the keyboard.drv problem. This doesn't particularly >> bother me as it was not one of the software items I guaranteed would >> work. >> 2) I can't get PCColor to work. If I follow the manual and >> type mode etc. the whole machine hangs. If I change the jumper on >> the BB (J14 from memory) then click on PCColor the machine crashes. >> From what I can gather around here this is not normal behaviour, so >> if there are no more hints from here I will return it to the dealer >> for possible repairs. > >since you're running a 3000, if you're using ks/wb 2.0 with the bridgeboard >you must disable data caching of bridgeboard address space. if you *have* >already done this, then yes - try another bridgeboard. try it under 1.3 >just for kicks, anyways. oops - forgot one more thing. try deleting the file sys:pc/system/sidecarsettings.table (whew). this file contains the pcwindow "save settings" data, and when the phase of the moon is just right, pcwindow can save illegal window settings in there. it doesn't do sanity checks when it reads the file back in, and things go poof. >to disable data caching on machines with data caches (030 and up) running >ks/wb 2.x: > >1) put the line > CPU NODATACACHE > in your startup-sequence file *before* the BINDDRIVERS command. > this method may slow your system down slightly, but everyone's > got the CPU command. > >2) put the line > ENFORCER QUIET > in your startup-sequence file *before* the BINDDRIVERS command. > this method assumes you have a "modern" enforcer which knows about > bridgeboards. your system won't be slowed down at all using this > method. > >> The A3000 works flawlessly, same as mine at home. >> >> Thanks, have fun, >> Russell >> >> BIRJT@cc.newcastle.edu.au > > --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE - yes. "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=