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From: ranjit@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CSA Accelerator
Keywords: Accelerator, custom chip
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Date: 11 Jan 90 21:57:00 GMT
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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 have contacted both companies
>and what I get from CSA is that they have tried to get Microbotics to work

I have a Ronin Hurricane accelerator in my 1000, and a Comspec
2meg expansion card.  The thing didn't work when the Comspec was
installed, so I called Ronin and they said "it's probably the
expansion card."  I said "nawwww..." and the Ronin sat in a box
for 6 months because although a 68020 is nice, it's not much use
with 512K ram.  Finally I got an opportunity to borrow my brother's
memory expansion card, and it works fine with the 68020.

Moral of the story: this seems to be a somewhat common problem.  It
also seems to vary with individual units, because the person I bought
my Ronin card from used another seemingly identical Ronin with a 
seemingly identical Comspec and had no trouble.  I would suggest
that you beg, borrow, or steal another expansion card, and see if
it works with the accelerator.  If it does, see if you can trade
yours for the other.  I traded my Comspec to my brother for his
junky old BareBoards card which is big and ugly and has no pass-through,
but at least it works.  The Comspec works fine on an un-accelerated
system.

	 - Ranjit


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