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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

1864.0. "Bridgeboard vs. 1.3" by SAUTER::SAUTER (John Sauter) Thu Nov 10 1988 11:28

    Last night, for the first time in several months, I fired up my
    Bridgeboard, so my wife could use some commercial software she has,
    which runs only on MS-DOS.  It booted OK, and the keyboard and screen
    worked, but I couldn't access the 68000's hard disk from the PC
    side.  The JLINK command hung the PC, so badly that even ctrl-alt-del
    wouldn't reboot!
    
    I reinstalled the 2088 software from its original disk, but the
    problem remained.  The parallel printer interface, by the way, still
    works.
    
    The only thing that I changed that might reasonably have anything
    to do with this symptom is the 68000's operating system.  Since
    I last used the Bridgeboard I installed WB 1.3 and converted the
    hard disk to FFS.  Is there anyone else with a Bridgeboard and 1.3
    who has seen this symptom?  Conversely, is there anyone else with
    a Bridgeboard and 1.3 that works?
        John Sauter

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1864.1	Field test available ....	CESARE::ZABOT	Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT	`Thu Nov 10 1988 14:02`	6
	I have Bridgeboard, ROM &WB 1.3, HD on IBM side and on 68000 side ( a2090 controller). I'm also willing to try if it works as soon as at home, but I never used JLINK . I not sure I 'm able to put the hands on docs. Do you want to lead my testing ??? m.
1864.2	here's how	SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Thu Nov 10 1988 15:35`	14
	Thanks for the offer. To test it, click on the disk icon in the PC drawer before clicking on the PC-MONO icon, to enable Janus. Then, when you have brought up MS-DOS, just type JLINK. JLINK with no arguments is supposed to list the linkages: they should all be empty. Actually, I tried it without enabling disk communication and it hung in the same way. I think you're supposed to get a message in this case. If you've never used Janus before, you must add it to your MS-DOS configuration file as a driver, and reboot MS-DOS. The 2088 manual explains how to do this. (I'm not at home so I can't quote it.) John Sauter
1864.3		CANIS::RIES	Frank W. Ries Jr.	`Thu Nov 10 1988 19:34`	7
	John, I have a bridgeboard and WB 1.3 (not KS1.3) and I have no problems accessing the amiga hard disk using JLINK. The only times I have had the bridgeboard hang both the PC and the Amiga is if I try to JLINK to the amiga hard disk without runing PCDISK first. Are you sure you started PCDISK before trying to JLINK to the amiga hard disk? Frank
1864.4	thanks	SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Thu Nov 10 1988 20:09`	8
	Sigh, Thanks for the information. I have tried both ways, running PCDISK (by clicking the icon) and not. Either way it hangs the PC. In fact, the PC is hung so badly that crtl/alt/del won't reboot it! I'll try reconstructing the PC software from the originals. If that doesn't work, it's off to the repair shop. John Sauter
1864.5	Mine works OK !	CESARE::ZABOT	Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT	`Fri Nov 11 1988 20:15`	17
	John, I have bad news for you: it works ! Here is what I've done. 1-start PC mono and modified CONFIG.SYS by adding device=jdisk.sys (as per your suggestion) 2-restarted Amiga ( just in case ..) 3-double clicked PCDISK 4-started PCMONO 5-entered the command JLINK and I got a map of the links ( no one present ...) BTW - All the command where already on the Janus disk I prepared with 1.2 some 145years ago ! Good luck ! m.
1864.6	FFS?	TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Fri Nov 11 1988 20:19`	2
	Is the disk on the Amiga side that you are trying to access from the bridgecard formatted with the fast file system? Does this make a difference?
1864.7	mine is	SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Mon Nov 14 1988 10:24`	2
	My 68000-side disk is formatted with FFS. John Sauter