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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CSA Accelerator
Keywords: Accelerator, custom chip
Message-ID: <4365@scolex.sco.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 17:43:13 GMT
References: <4098@rayssdb.ray.com> <1285@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <1990Jan7.052421.13946@wilbur.uucp> <1936@becker.UUCP>
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In article <1936@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <1990Jan7.052421.13946@wilbur.uucp> scott@wilbur.uucp (Scott Beckstead) writes:
>|I happen to be the proud owner of the original CSA 68020 accelerator card
>|serial number 2.  However I happen to also be the not so proud owner of a
>|Starboard II 2meg/multifunction card.  The problem is that the Starboard II
>|refuses to work correctly with the CSA board.
>
>	I can't offer any help unfortunately, but I
>	would like to comment that it looks to me
>	that Microbotics weren't able to come up with
>	a fix and didn't want to admit it.  My instinct

Just before Christams, I bought a used CSA board.  It had no FPU
(I'm going to fix that soon though :-) and I installed it into my system.
Alone my ami 1000 had no problems.  However, the memeory card
(MicroBotics don't you know) did not work.  I called CSA support 
and they told me they knew of this.  The Supra didn't work either,
but once I turned off blind reads, it worked fine.

They also told me that they could fix the Microbotics for a small 
fee (about 40 bucks I think) since they had gone out and purchased
one of these to test with.  However, my Supra SCSI buss seems to clean
up any problems that I was having with mu MicroBotics Board, so I 
never sent it in.

Give CSA a call and see if they can help.   They told me they could
as of around the 20th of December.  My situation now is

Amy 1000
Supra 4x4 SCSI Board
Microbotics Starboard II w 2 Meg.

It runs fine.

Just FYI

brian moffet