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- From: darkrain@mindvox.phantom.com (Swiftshadow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000+ Kickstart 3.1 ???
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 22:45:18 GMT
- Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox
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- James Sleeman (sleemanj@voyager.co.nz) wrote:
-
- : MN> In a few days I will get a A3000+
-
- : MN> It has a SCSI interface on board and AGA chip set.
-
- : A3000 wth AGA (ROFL), I think you may have your wires crossed here,
- : the A3000 has SCSI on board, but does NOT have an AGA chipset, at the moment
- : the ONLY amigas with the AGA chipset are the A1200, A4000 (and derivatives of
- : the 4k), and the CD32, the A3000 has an ECS chipset.
-
- He specified the A3000+. That plus in the end is there for a reason. An
- A3000+ was a prototype/testing machine built by Commodore in very limited
- quantities. It does have AGA and supposedly an AT&T 3210 DSP on the
- motherboard or on ZIII card. As to the original question. I suppose that
- the ROM sockets should be compatible with either A3000 or A4000 ROMS.
- Hopefully the version of AGA on the A3000+ is the same as that on the
- A1200/A4000. The problem might arise with the fact that neither A1200/A4000
- ROM has the scsi.device to drive the A3000 SCSI controller. It should be
- interesting to see if it works. Keep us posted.
-
- : Now onto your question about SCSI, the workbench version has nothing
- : to do with the HD interface that you can use. I am using WB 3.1 on my 3000
- : and I have not have a problem wth it at all.
-
- See above
-
- : I suggest that you sort out what you are buying and make sure that it
- : is what you are expecting, from what you have said i sounds like it is not.
-
- : Gotta go, friends is starting.
-
- : Seeya
- : James Sleeman
-
- Swiftshadow
-