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- From: sales@mt-inc.com (MicroTech)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 2620
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 19:56:47 GMT
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- On 31-Mar-96 20:03:44, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. (critter@wizvax.wizvax.net) posted:
-
- > I just acquired a 2620 accelerator (so I'm on a budget, okay?!?) from
- > the local used Amiga parts dealer, who are very difficult to get ahold
- > of save for one night each month (when they host the local users'
- > group meeting and so are open way late). This card is populated with
- > 4MB of ZIP's. When I put it into my machine, I got a yellow screen,
- > blue text, stating that there were total 5MB (incorrect, there are 7
- > with the 4 on the accel, 2 on the 2091 and 1 on the motherboard) and
- > that Autoconfig ran out of RAM. It dropped me into an ML monitor of
- > some sort.
-
- > I was able, by playing with jumpers, etc, to get the machine to
- > display a boot selection screen (three boxes, one each marked
- > "AmigaDOS on 68000," "AmigaDOS on 68020" and "Amiga UX."), but still
- > the message about Autoconfig being out of memory space in the upper
- > left-hand corner. If I clicked on either of the AmigaDOS boxes, it
- > hit my HD a couple of times, then came back to that screen. If I
- > clicked on the AmigaUX box, it hit the floppy drive and (natrually,
- > lacking a UNIX boot disk) returned to this screen.
-
- > For the record, here is the full setup:
-
- > Amiga 2000, fat agnus, 1MB chip ram installed.
- > 1 stock floppy drive
- > 2091 SCSI HD controller, with 2MB fast ram. This has revision 08 of
- > the SCSI chip.
- > Multiface 3 card (2 serial + 1 Parallel)
-
- > The SCSI chain has a 330MB Seagate HD (Unit 0 LUN 0) and a Zip drive
- > (Unit 5 LUN 0).
-
- > My questions:
-
-
- > 1. Is the Autoconfig RAM shortage problem configuration related or
- > trashed-ram related?
-
- > 2. What do the jumpers do and how should they be set?
-
- > 3. Is the RAM on the 2091 interfering? It does not appear to be as
- > the results are the same if the 2091 is removed, but might it
- > cause interference once the initial problem is solved?
-
- > 4. Any other bits of advice?
-
- > Thanks in advance to any and all who can help.
- > --
- > Critter@Wizvax.Net
- > To Bill Gates: /* All the Money in the world can't buy hapiness, and
- > all the money in the world can't get rid of pimples */
-
- You will need to update the ROMs on the A2620 to use it with Kickstart 2.04
- and higher, or it will not autoconfig itself properly. Perhaps your vendor
- may have them available, if not, try calling DKB. The ROMs are no longer in
- production, but in the past, DKB has burned new roms for us if we send them
- the old set.
-
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