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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: using the interface between an Amiga 2000 and bridgecard
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Date: 18 Jul 88 03:57:06 GMT
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In article <5217@watcgl.waterloo.edu| grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) writes:
|Where can I find information on using the interface between an Amiga 2000
|and the bridgecard ?
|I am interested in writing a driver that would allow the Amiga's mouse to
|be used as a mouse on the bridgecard side, as well as writing something
|that would allow the bridgecard to get current date/time from the Amiga
|side (it seems kinda silly to have TWO battery backed up clock/calenders
|inside one box).

You need the "A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual" available from Lauren
Brown at CATS, and the "Amiga 2088 Software for PC Bridgecard V2.0 
Alpha 1 Release" that was distributed to developers at DevCon.  COntact
lauren to see if you can get a copy of it.

|On a non-related topic, will the fast-file-system work on an Amiga
|partition of a hard disk setup on the bridgecard side ?

Nope.  Reason is that DPFormat, the program used to format a Janus 
partition, has not been updated to handle FFS.

|Also, in the Introduction to the Amiga 2000 manual it mentions a jumper
|J301 which is used to enable/disable (or something like that) a second
|internal drive. Where is this jumper found on a Rev 4.3 B2000 ? 

I don't have a Rev 4.3 B2000, but I have the schematics of the original B2000
(from the above mentioned A500/A2000 Tech. Man.).  Jumper J301 is connected
to pin 34 (_RDY) of the "internal floppy connector" named CN303.  Changing
the jumper will allow to have an external DF1: drive (instead of the usual
DF2:).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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