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From: greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 & Bridgeboard problem
Message-ID: <1267@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 89 00:43:20 GMT
References: <17135@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
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In article <17135@cup.portal.com> Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
>.... When the machine is started from a cold boot (just turned on), all
>is fine. However, if he does the old vulcan nerve pinch (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga),
>the machine starts to reboot and then the machine hangs.  ....

I have had this symptom without the Bridgeboard.  I have traced the hang
to being in BindDrivers, but haven't been able to get much further than
that.  I \have/ discovered that the re-boot sequence became more reliable
the fewer commands there were in the Startup-Sequence preceeding the
BindDrivers, but I've never been able to find out why.  Right now, the
BindDrivers is the first command in my Startup-Sequence, even before
FastMemFirst or SetPatch, and I can re-boot with control-Amiga-Amiga
about three-quarters of the time (the rest of the time requires cycling
power, as you indicated).  I don't like running it this way, but....

These problems began when I added a SCSI drive to the ST-506 drive already
on my CBM2090.  I'd dearly love to find out what is going wrong so that I
can fix it.....  (BTW, if there's anybody considering buying a second 2090A
for your 2000, please call me -- I'm quite willing to discuss a swap so
that you end up with a 2090A to boot from and a 2090 for your other disks,
while I end up with a 2090A to boot from....)
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo   Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM  or  greg@ncr-sd