• arghhhhhhh

    From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to All on Sat Aug 9 04:05:06 2008
    Was happly playing around with my A3000, compiling a new Linux kernel for the beast! (It's towerd) After getting a brand new X-Surf network card a few weeks ago... Leave her alone, and turned off for a few days.

    Come back to the system, and she's dead jim! (Star Trek pun intended).

    Strip the hole system down to just the motherboard and riser card (So out comes the X-Surf, Cybervision 64, A2091 [Has my cdrom on it], Cyberstorm MK1 68060, 128mb ram).. Run some test's, get the nice kickstart boot screen with insert floppy.. Coool, things might workout to just be a dead Accelerator card..

    Couple of days latter (when I had the time to spare), run more test's.. Boot up with just a workbench disk, and nothing else hooked to the beast... A few minutes latter and the &^%^%$& thing has locked up frozen (cant do squat).

    Wish there was someone closer with another A3000 or A4000 to test things in (the closest I know of is MAUG [Melbourne Amiga Users Group] 120K's away.


    So I might get a working system one day... Have been sending email's back and forward to Jean in france... So half my gear is going to have to take a world trip just to get board level work done on it...

    Then if i'm lucky it's fixable...




    Stephen

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  • From Benny Pedersen@39:14/0 to Stephen Walsh on Sat Aug 30 20:28:14 2008
    Hello Stephen!

    09 Aug 08 04:05, Stephen Walsh wrote to All:

    Was happly playing around with my A3000, compiling a new Linux kernel
    for the beast!

    with one ?

    (It's towerd) After getting a brand new X-Surf network
    card a few weeks ago... Leave her alone, and turned off for a few days.

    is this card supported in kernel.org ?

    Come back to the system, and she's dead jim! (Star Trek pun
    intended).

    not pun :)

    Strip the hole system down to just the motherboard and riser card (So
    out comes the X-Surf, Cybervision 64, A2091 [Has my cdrom on it], Cyberstorm MK1 68060, 128mb ram).. Run some test's, get the nice kickstart
    boot screen with insert floppy.. Coool,

    yes it nice as long it works

    things might workout to just be a dead Accelerator card..

    but a3000 is still a 68030 with mmu so linux m68k is possible

    there is now m68knommu in kernel.org :=)

    Couple of days latter (when I had the time to spare), run more
    test's.. Boot up with just a workbench disk, and nothing else hooked to the beast...

    succes ?

    A few minutes latter and the &^%^%$& thing has locked up frozen (cant do squat).

    time for debug, but that needs full debug via serial or full enabled as so in kernel, else its hard to find what happend

    Wish there was someone closer with another A3000 or A4000 to test
    things in (the closest I know of is MAUG [Melbourne Amiga Users Group] 120K's away.

    i like to travel olso, but there is longer then to mars from me to you :)

    So I might get a working system one day... Have been sending email's
    back and forward to Jean in france...

    there is a repair center there ?

    So half my gear is going to have to take a world trip just to get board level work done on it...

    super ok if it works later

    Then if i'm lucky it's fixable...

    yes, we lost the battle :(

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    amiga linux ?


    Regards Benny

    ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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  • From Stephen Walsh@39:901/280 to Benny Pedersen on Sun Aug 31 20:09:28 2008
    Hello Benny.

    30 Aug 08 20:28, you wrote to me:

    Was happly playing around with my A3000, compiling a new Linux
    kernel for the beast!

    with one ?

    Debian Sarge 2.6.x (it's been a while since this happended)

    (It's towerd) After getting a brand new X-Surf network
    card a few weeks ago... Leave her alone, and turned off for a few
    days.

    is this card supported in kernel.org ?

    Yes. The stock amiga kernels have x-surf support.

    things might workout to just be a dead Accelerator card..
    but a3000 is still a 68030 with mmu so linux m68k is possible

    Not with only 6mb ram total (2mb chip, 4mb fast)

    Couple of days latter (when I had the time to spare), run more
    succes ?
    [...]

    So I might get a working system one day... Have been sending
    email's back and forward to Jean in france...

    there is a repair center there ?

    yes. France amiga Center!


    -+- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5

    amiga linux ?

    Nop, i386 on my pc server...



    Stephen

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