Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:3712 comp.sys.amiga.introduction:536 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: random A3000 questions Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 16:02:54 GMT References: <8974@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: The Search For TERRESTRIAL Intelligence Lines: 43 In article <8974@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes: > >If you feel like it's a stupid question, put it on >comp.sys.amiga.introduction. I don't get that one. >>And why are there two sets of ROM >>sockets on the motherboard? > >It takes bigger ROMS. I don't mean two sockets, I mean two sets of sockets. In the picture in the June '90 AmigaWorld, there are *four* ROM sockets. Two have EPROMs in them, two are empty and labeled "alternate ROM sockets." >>And a question I don't think I've ever seen >>anywhere: Is it possible to plug in a 1.3 ROM to save RAM? > >Eeek. You don't want to do this. You really want the 2.0 ROM. I probably should've explained myself better. I didn't mean getting rid of the 2.0 ROM. I meant plugging a 1.3 ROM into one of the empty sockets. After all, even when the final version of 2.0 is in ROM, if I want to load 1.3 it'll still take up my fast RAM. (I am NOT being fearful of 2.0, just cautious!) >>(5) Is there enough memory left with Kickstart in RAM to do a one-pass >>one-drive floppy copy? > >Well, let's see: 2 megs - 0.5 meg = 1.5 meg. Assuming you don't need >880k of contiguous RAM, you should be ok. I just copy the disk to >RAM:, then copy it back to a blank floppy. That's one possibility, but what I was really interested in was Diskcopy. I think that a single-drive Diskcopy (even at least some 1.3's) will copy all 80 tracks into RAM in one pass, then write them all out. Am I wrong? -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)