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- From: jodo@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Joerg Dorchain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ------->A2286 Bridgeboard questions<-------
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:22:48 GMT
- Organization: Studenten-Mail, Rechenzentrum Universitaet des Saarlandes
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- fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu wrote:
- :>In article <uleblanc.727126076@mcl>, uleblanc@mcl.ucsb.edu (Gregg Le Blanc) writes:
- :>> Hi-
- :>>
- :>> I would like to know if:
- :>> The bridgeboard itself takes fastmem from the Amiga even if I'm not using
- :>> it during my normal operations. I have taken all the driver commands
- :>> out of my startup-sequence that have to do with the BB and put them into
- :>> a script file that I run to access the BB.
- :>
- :> I think you could find this out using the avail command before
- :> and after you run your script. I think the BB takes up about
- :> 512K of address space, but very little fastram unless you're
- :> using the PC windows and such.
- I also have an A2286 Bridgeboard, but I didn`t notice it using
- fastram if not used. The only thingis that the BB behave like an
- ordenary slotcard that uses 512K addressspace above your fastram.
- (Thats why you can get only 6MB into an BB-Amiga)
- :>>
- :>> If the BB does take up fastmem when not in use, can I do something
- :>> to make the Amiga ignore its presence?
- :>
- :> Have you tried commenting out all references to BB programs in
- :> your startup-sequence and user-startup. If you also store
- :> janus.library away from the expansion drawer it might help.
- :>
- :> Of course, if you want to run the BB, you will have to undo these
- :> things, so you might want to put comments in the startup files to
- :> remind you.
- As I said, Idon`t have this problems.
-
- :>> Is there any economical way to speed the 286 up to say, 10 mHz, or
- :>> 12 mHz?
- :>
- :> Hey this is interesting! Has any body tried replacing the
- :> 286 on the BB with a faster part? I'd like to know too.
- :>
- Yes, there is. I bought my BB second hand with an 12MHz-upgrade-kit
- build in. There are (few) merchants, but there are. I don`t know
- any addresses, but I suggest you just to look at ads in magazines.
-
- Joerg Dorchain
-
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- "Die heilige Dreifaltigkeit ist wie ein Kleeblatt -
- klein, gruen und dreifach gespalten" -Monty Pyton
- --
- Joerg Dorchain, Student an der Universitaet des Saarlandes
- EMail: jodo@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de
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