Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!ucla-cs!uci-ics!bonnie.ics.uci.edu!lgulyas From: lgulyas@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Blue on Sidecar/1000 reboot Message-ID: <12408@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 21 Apr 89 06:03:37 GMT Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: lgulyas@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas) Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 38 Hello all you happy net people: I am having a problem with my Sidecar. My setup is as follows: Amiga 1000 (non-grounded PALs) Insider Memory (set for auto-config under 1.2) Sidecar with 512K, clock/calendar/parallel/serial card parallel set to LPT2 serial to COM1 1 external 3.5 floppy Amiga side. 1 40meg Atasi hard drive configure 50% Amiga (using FFS hack from Transactor Magazine). My problem is that the hard drive does not always catch the information. It will work fine sometimes, while other times it will just stop in the middle of a program load. For example, I was trying to backup my drive, and I would only get part of the way through the backup before the hard drive/ SIDECAR would stop sending information over to the Amiga. The only way to get things to work was to reboot. When I reboot, I would get a blue screen. However, when I reboot again. ie reboot (get blue screen) wait a few seconds, and reboot again (while the colors are changing) , the blue screen does not show up. Also, running DiskPerf2 on my FFS/Janus drive gave me a reading of about 30,000 to 100,000 bits per second , depending on the amount of space used. Any comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be appreciated. This drive is driving me crazy. PS --- When is the Janus 2.0 libraries coming out. Some of us sure could use them now!!! :-) Laszlo Gulyas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is a kumquat" -Agent 86 "Get Smart" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------