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- Subject: Re: Specs on MTek (GVP) 060 board?
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:13:02 +0100
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- On Do 11.01.1996 dkm@col.hp.com (David K Martin) wrote
- about "Specs on MTek (GVP) 060 board?":
-
- > Anyone know anything about the MTek '060 board for the A2000 that
- > Software Hut has listed in their ads? The ad only says that it
- > is a combo board and will accecpt both GVP and standard 72 pin
- > SIMMS. How does the MTek compare to DKB's Wildfire (assuming
- > that the board is not vaporware)?
-
- The board isn't vaporware, I had it for testing but only with a 68040 on it.
- Not only phase5 seemes to have problems in getting 68060s.
-
- It works fine with GVP-SIMMs and PS/2-SIMMs. You can mix these SIMM-types. The
- board has 8 sockets where always two sockets build a "team". That means that
- you only can use one socket of a team at a time. With PS/2-SIMMs a maximum of
- 128 MByte is possible.
-
- It's a pitty that M-Tec removed the serial and the parallel port otherwise it
- really would be a great thing for A2000 owners I think. The 68040 works at
- 40MHz, the speedup compared to the original GVP GForce40 is equivalent to the
- more MHz it has.
-
- The SCSI-port works fine, it's slightly slower than the GURU-ROM in maximum
- readspeed but has more CPU-time left. With a Quantum LPS525S I got nearly 2,8
- MB/sec max. readspeed and 87% CPU-time left. With the GURU-ROM I get little
- over 2,8 MB/sec and 67% CPU-time left.
-
- It seemes as if the device uses a big buffer because I got a directory scan
- with over 5000 files/sec and no CPU-time left.
-
- Because of my damaged internal Amiga serial port and the missing serial port
- on the M-Tec board I could not check out whether the M-Tec board has the same
- problems in receiving data through the serial port during SCSI-bus activity
- like the GVP GForce40 or not. Maybee the new Jumper called "DMA ignores
- Interrupt/DMA Back Off for Interrupt" will solve this problem.
-
- Overall I can say that the board works fine. A good thing is that the
- chips/sockets are placed on the other side of the board than they are on the
- GVP GForce40. Placing the board in the socket on the A2000 motherboard is
- really easier to do. The external SCSI-port got a HD-Connector.
-
- Updating the board to the 68060 (50MHz) should be an easy thing as written in
- the manual. All necessary parts got sockets.
-
- Candid
-