Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Problems with Hard disk and 4.3 motherboard? Message-ID: <3506@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 24 Mar 88 17:32:44 GMT References: <4595@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 50 in article <4595@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, kjws@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (K.J.W.Smithers) says: >>People get so panicky over little things like ".2" vs. ".3" that they're not >>supposed to even know about. Now I know why I never used this numbering >>scheme before. Next time we go back to coding it, like most other vendors >>do. >>Dave Haynie "The B2000 Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" > > > PLEASE PLEASE don't do something so rash as to change the relatively > simple numbering system. I am a poor user stuck with a revision 4.0 b2000 > the reason why I care is that I AM *WISHING* TO ***USE*** my CSA 68020 card. > A CSA 68020 does not work with a C= A2090 h-disk on 4.0 b2000's > Since Commodore UK have refused to answer any of my letters as have their > service sub-contractors I have been left talking (expensively) to a German > rep. of CSA. It has been helpful to make it quite clear which revision I have > it is hard enough with the language barrier let alone having to deal with coded > boards! The CSA board doesn't work reliably with the A2090 hard disk on any revision of the B2000. The CSA board also doesn't work with several different add-on RAM boards. Detect a pattern here. You should. There's a big problem with the CSA board and repeatable operation. It appears to be a marginal design (I personally haven't seen one myself, but there are so many reported problems with it I can deduce this). > BUT more importantly is the /VPA line anything to do with the problem > on my board? No. If you have a Rev 4.0 board, you have the Toshiba supplied Gary which does not need the pullup. If you re-read my original note, you'll notice that I mentioned these pullups were installed before the MOS Gary went into production. > I have deciphered something about resistors in my conversations > with CSA but since it has been 7 seven SEVEN **SEVEN** MONTHS since I ordered > my board it makes waiting for the A2620 look easy since that apparently will > work! LOOK someone I am getting very very angry, p*ssed etc with the way I am > being treated. Is their any way I can get my system to work in harmony? That's something only CSA can answer. I really wish I could tell you something better, but it's out of my hands. > Kit Smithers. -- Dave Haynie "The B2000 Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"