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- ************ Modification of the A2060. *******************
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- This text is freeware.
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- What is this ?
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- This Text describes how to modify the A2060 arcnetcard to make it
- work in an A4000.
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- Why ?
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- Some Arcnet 2060 don`t work properly in an A4000 or in some highly accelerated A2000`s.
- (This bad behaviour doesn`t affect the A560 !!)
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- What is to be fixed ?
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- If the board is accessed continously, e.g. when copying the card`s buffer
- into Amiga memory, a lack in the design shows up:
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- In the area of the LED.connector the level of 5V drops down to less than 3V.
- (This effect gets even worse, if there`s a LED connected. )
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- The dropping voltage keeps the buffers from supplying the correct byte, the
- last accessed byte is repeated instead.
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- (You can see this repeats using "sanamon".)
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- To conclude: You get lots of timeouts, unknown packets...arcnet suxx..
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- Let`s fix it !
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- Remove the small capaticitor close to the LED.connector. (5V 2.2uF)
- Solder an extra wire from the 5V and the GND to the IC (74Ls244) close to the
- LED.connector.
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- This should fix the prob.
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- I did this hack to 4 A2060`s and they all worked fine, after this hack.
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- Who wrote this text ?
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- Email: judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org
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