Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Blue on Sidecar/1000 reboot
Message-ID: <442@becker.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 03:13:26 GMT
References: <12408@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <12408@paris.ics.uci.edu> lgulyas@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas) writes:
|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. 

	1). Ground those PAL's!
	2). Set the Insider for non-autoconfig memory
	    if you can - I assume autoconfig means
	    memory @ 0xC00000. Use addmem @ 0x800000
	    or wherever...
	3). Ground those PAL's! While you're in there,
	    install the bus termination mods mentioned in
	    the LUCAS threads - The SideCar is *very*
	    timing-dependent. (Better yet, put the
	    terminations on the SideCar side plugged onto
	    the bus pins which were reserved for the
	    (non-existent) SideCar 68000 memory card...

| [...]
|PS --- When is the Janus 2.0 libraries coming out. Some of us sure could
|use them now!!! :-) 

	I beleive Janus 2.0 is shipping with the new 2286
	bridge card. It is indeed well worth having - I've
	had a chance to test the Gamma version which is
	pretty solid with a lot of goodies.

|Laszlo Gulyas
|
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Cheers,
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