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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A2630 and '86 A2000
- Message-ID: <33301@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:09:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.195630.759@mits.mdata.fi>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Jul22.195630.759@mits.mdata.fi> jyrkis@mits.mdata.fi (Jyrki Saarinen) writes:
-
- >Does the A2630 work with _A_2000 rev. 4 or 4.3? There is '86 sign on
- >the motherboard, so my Amiga is quite old. Golem's 68030-cards don't
- >work, GVP Combos don't, but does A2630?
-
- The A26x0 work in the "A" 2000 boards (4-layer design done in Germany) as long
- as you set the appropriate jumpers on the board and remove your 68000. The
- A2620 requires three jumpers to be reset, the A2630 does it with one.
-
- >Why doesn't those cards work with A2000? There some signal missing from
- >A2000's 86-pin slot, but what's the meaning of 'the missing pin'?
-
- There are several signals missing from the original slot that most cards count
- on. The 7MHz clock is missing, so a card that supports both types of 2000s
- must know how to synthesize its own (the obvious way to do this doesn't work
- right on all B2000s, due to some timing slop in the non-ECS Fat Agnus's clock
- generation). More critically, there's no coprocessor interface on the "A"
- machine's "CPU" slot. This is the mechanism by which the processor takes
- primary control of the system from the 68000. Because this isn't present, the
- 68000 must be removed, and the card must be able to compensate for the 68000
- not being there. The A26x0 card did this -- they pretty much had to, after
- all, the original A2000 was a C= product, and we wanted to support it as well
- as possible. I guess other vendors didn't consider the number of these
- systems (somewhere around 30,000 as I recall) significant enough to both with
- a little extra circuitry.
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