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- From: mike Redrobe <mike@redrobe.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 386SX Bridgeboard fix/upgrade
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 02:05:04 GMT
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- >I have a 386SX bridgeboard and I wonder if anyone can help me on a couple of
- >things.
- >As it comes out of the box, you can't allocate an amiga partition to be a
- >PC hard disk. I know that it allows you, in theory, use a PC hard disk.
- It is *much* faster to use a dedicated pc disk (IDE controllers/disks are
- dirt cheap anyway)
-
- >The problem is that I have an A3000 which has only 2 PC slots,so I don't
- >want to use one up adding a bloody PC ide card.
-
- Well I had more slots than you in my A4000, but ran out so I soldered more in!
- (Call me mad but I knew what I was doing...ISA are only parallel connectors)
-
-
- >Also having a PicassoII card, it would be nice to be able to use that instead
- >of a SVGA/VGA card.
- nice..but not likely...buy a monitor swicthbox...
-
- >I guess that what all this waffle is saying is -
- >1 > Does anybody know of a way of allocating an amiga partition/scsi HD to
- > the PC side ?
- look on aminet misc/emu directory
-
- >2 > Does anybody know how to utilise the PicassoII board ?
- don't hold you're breath here...it'd be slow...too much data to transfer
- through janus
-
- >3 > Has anybody actually got Windows 3.1 to work ? (i.e. over come the bus
- > problem )
-
- Yeah used it for ages..even used win95 before selling my bridgebaord a few
- weeks ago.
-
-
- Its actually very flexible (In some ways I miss It..I sold it because I got a
- cheap pentium, and I couldn't expand it >486/40 or >8meg )
-
- I recommend sxserv (aminet:misc/emu)
- and amicdex (if you have a CD-rom - this shares the amiga's CD-drive
- very elegantly on a 1st come first served basis)
-
-
-
- >If it can be made to work, I will dust it off and upgrade the processor with
- >one of those turbo-nutter-bastard upgrade chips.
- hehe
- get BBcpuupgrade.lah (or something) an amigaguide descibing your options for
- upgrading the cpu (with pictures/benchmarks!)
-
- see there *is* a lot of info out there!
-
-
-
- Mike
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