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From: rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C-Ltd hard disk (it works! -- sort of)
Message-ID: <249@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 16:33:30 EST
Article-I.D.: rocky.249
Posted: Sat Apr 18 16:33:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 02:47:56 EST
References: <411@pttesac.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
Lines: 46
Keywords: C-Ltd hard disk lockup video streaking troubles
Summary: My experiences with CLTD

In article <411@pttesac.UUCP>, vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) writes:
> I just wanted to report on the status of my C-Ltd 20 Meg
> hard disk.

I thought I'd do the same.  About two weeks ago I had an Amiga with an
Amega board, and nothing else.  Everything worked fine and dandy.  I
sent CLTD a check for $1600, for a 50 Meg Hard drive.  About ten days
later, I got a big UPS package.  I removed my CLTD card, plugged in
the disk, and booted; the hard drive would not come up.  The machine
always locked in the first reference to DH0:.  So I sent it back,
after calling them and telling them that I was shipping it air, and
wanted my second drive shipped air.  (The original was shipped ground.)
In my depression about getting a bad drive, I purchased and installed
the KickRAM.  I highly recommend it; it works like a charm.  But, with
it, my Amega board no longer works.  (I know how to fix it; the
instructions are in the KickRAM docs; you simply replace a resistor and
capacitor on the reset generation circuitry.)  I was so busy writing
BlitLab for the BADGE meeting that I haven't get around to fixing the
memory board yet.  Well, Thursday (the day of BADGE) I got another
package, my new hard drive!  I plugged it in; everything seems to be
working like a charm.  And I exercised that drive.  I moved every single
picture from all of the fish disks and FAUG disks into a directory,
created a huge dpslide.cmd, and let her run for four hours.  No problem.
Next, I moved all of the TeX source onto the drive, and recompiled TeX
*twice* while kermit'ing some stuff from the hard disk down to another
Machine.  At the same time, I was diskcopying some floppies for a friend.
No problems at all yet.  And I've got the disk 31% full.  (Remember, this
is a 50 meg drive.)

I also did some development on the machine.  Let me tell you, having that
drive makes my Amiga an entirely new computer.  Compilation and TeX is
faster than on a 750 with no one else on.  Everything is faster than shit.
I can recompile TeX fast enough to where I can now *experiment* with the
program.  I love the drive.

So today I'm tearing into and fixing the Amega card.  (By the way, if
you have the Amega card and order a hard drive from CLTD, make sure you
also order the APTB (Amiga Pass Through Board) to connect the two; I
didn't and had to wait a few days for it.)  Then I'm going to put
everything back together, and put a few more megabytes of stuff on the
drive.  I just got 3.40a from Manx, yesterday, so I'm going to
recompile TeX and everything else again to see if they work.  (It
was pleasant seeing that they've included my profiler and my setenv
routines in the new stuff.)  And I'll keep everyone posted.

-tom