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- From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Problems switching from 68040 to 68000
- Message-ID: <Btyx1J.415@CAM.ORG>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 20:32:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug23.185619.16414@sarah.albany.edu>
- Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
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- tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:
-
- >Howdy,
-
- >I own a Fusion Forty equipped with 9 megs of ram (four 1x9 70ns simms and four
- >1x9 80ns simms, all are manufactured by Micron) which is sitting in my 2000.
- >I've got a problem concerning switching processors (from the F40 68040 to the
- >original 68000). Whenever I switch using the hardware switch on the back of
- >the board, the computer refuses to boot-up right away, it takes several (9-10)
- >warm boots (CTRL-A-A) to get it going again! And when I switch back it does
- >the same thing. I own an ICD AdSCSI 2000 (switched from a Trumpcard Pro) which
- >has 2 105 Quantums and 1 40meg Sony hooked up to it. Worse yet, everytime I
- >switch processors and the computer does boot-up, the drives take a billion
- >years to finish-booting (2 minutes was the last time I booted, bootup usually
- >takes less than 39 seconds). Has anybody out there had the same problem?
-
- >I would call RCS but it's a REAL LLLOOONNNGGG distance call and costs me a
- >pretty penny every time I call.
-
- >Thanks for the help,
-
- >Teddy
-
- > ////////
- > // twang@thor.albany.edu
- > // TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // eddy Wang TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
- > New Illusions Albany, NY "Increase the Peace..."
-
- Teddy, you can't go straight from the 040 <> 68000 mode on a warm boot.
- The system must be powered down for 30s to flush everything. RCS is
- aware of your question though, and will be intouch.
-
- Somewhat related, atleast to warm and cold boots, is that RCS now has
- "plug & go" roms for the 040. There is no software instalation required
- anymore, everythings automatic. Boot up time is now down to 10s. Controllers
- like the 2091 are automatically detected and the 16bit roms are moved
- into 32 bit Ram, increasing speed. There's a $50 US upgrade fee for those
- who already have the board. All new boards shipped will have new roms on
- it.
-
- hope this helps..
-
- stephen
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