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- From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
- Subject: Re: A2286 AT Bridgeboard problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.154828.862@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- Organization: University of Passau, Germany
- References: <1992Dec16.230512.7781@qucis.queensu.ca> <10354@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:48:28 GMT
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- In article <10354@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
- >[ This may be a little late, but I didn't see any response yet. ]
- >
- >In article <1992Dec16.230512.7781@qucis.queensu.ca> akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman) writes:
- >>I just got a new A2286 AT Bridgeboard and installed it in my Rev. 4 German
- >>motherboard A2000. I have Workbench/Kickstart 2.04. I ran the Amiga
- >>Janus version 2.1 installer and put everything on SYS: except for a 30 MB
- >>virtual drive on Work: At the end of the installation it couldn't start up
- >>PCPrefs, "Could not open Janus.library". I added
- >>
- >>SysInfo 2.69 reports address $FF000000, 0K, ZORRO II, and XTBRIDGEBOARD or
- > ^^
- >>ATBRIDGEBOARD depending on which slot it is and how hard I bang it.
- >
- >Hmm, don't know about SysInfo, heard mixed stories about it. But a
- >bridgeboard definitely uses some memory (512 K). So, if this memory
- >isn't there, I assume a hardware problem.
-
- Although I sent well-documented code to split the XT and AT-BB to Nic,
- he managed to screw up resulting in SysInfo still not correctly detecting
- XT or AT-BB.
-
- But I think your problem is another one:
- As Sysinfo reports the BB to reside at 0xff000000 whith is OUTSIDE the
- 16MB-space ZorroII can address, my guess is you have already fully populated
- the 8MB of autoconfig-space.
-
- >>I also have a GVP Series II HC+8 card that works fine.
- >
- >Perhaps they conflict with one another? Have you already tried it with
- >this card removed?
-
- No in my machine they work(ed) fine together, but maybe it's populated with
- 8MB of RAM?
-
- So my hint: remove at least 2MB of your RAM and it should work pretty well.
-
- Ciao, Klaus.
-
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