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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 2630 with 2632 problem
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:35:27 GMT
- Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
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- From article <4id5u7$os@detroit.freenet.org>, by ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey):
- >
- >This is kind of obscure. I recently picked up a 2632 ram expansion for
- >my 2630 accelerator. After a minor problem with an outdated copy of
- >the installation software, it's working fine with the new 8 meg SIMM
- >I got for $109 at a local show (can you believe what RAM prices have
- >cone in the last month?).
- >
- >BUT... My CDROM, an NEC CDR-25 under ASIM 2.0, locks up the SCSI buss
- >if I mount it in the 32 bit memory. It's OK if I set the 2632 to
- >lower priority than the 24 bit memory I have installed.
- >
- >Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?
-
- I presume you are using a 2091 controller. This can only talk DMA to 24
- bit memory. Set the mountlist mask to 0x00fffffe to tell it that this
- is the address range to use.
-
- Allan Duncan a.duncan@trl.telstra.com.au (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6664
- Photonics & Reference Standards Section
- Telstra Research Labs, Box 249 Rosebank MDC
- Clayton, Victoria, 3169, Australia (a world renowned Lab in past times)
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