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Re: SS & '060 - Need help

#11275
From: mick
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:40
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On 15-Apr-96 19:37:14 David K Martin wrote
>I recently replaced the GVP 33MHz '030 combo card in my A2000 with a
>Tek Magic 50MHz '060 board.  Made a very nice speed increase ;)

>However, I've not been able to get ShapeShifter to boot on the '060 yet.
>I have SS 3.4 registered, 1M Mac roms from a Quadra 700, and Mac OS 7.5,
>all of which ran perfectly on the '030 and on my '040 A4000.  What do I
>need to do to get this running on the '060 now?

>So far, I've managed to get the "Happy Mac" displayed once before the
>Amiga Gurued.  Usually everything hangs up long before that point, the
>gray screen will appear and the Mac mouse pointer appears before the
>power light starts blinking and the Amiga needs to be rebooted.
>I get the same if I use the Picasso mode or the Amiga display modes.
>I've tried deleting the PRAM file, various memory settings, from 1720K to
>letting SS use the  largest free block (6580K), tried booting from the Mac
> partition, tried disabling SCSI and hard drive altogether and booting
>from  floppy (HD), but nothing has worked.  Even tried SS 3.2 and 3.3,
>still no  luck.  Also tried disabling the caches on the '060 and removing
>the OS 3.1  rom image from ram.

>At the moment, contiguous memory may be a problem as I have 3 GVP 4M SIMMS
>and 1 72-pin 4M SIMM installed which gives me one 8M block of contiguous
>memory.  I had a brief chance to install and use a set of matched 16M
>SIMMS  on the board which made a 32M block of contiguous 32 bit fast ram
>but SS  refused to work with that combination also.

>What have other '060 owners had to do to get SS working on your systems?
>Any suggestions on what else I can try on my system?

I had similar problems and was about to give up on SS when I just happened
to try a prog from Aminet called MacMem. I placed it in my startup-sequence
just before Prepareemul and everything worked ok. I don't know if this is
any help.

>Thanks in advance,

>Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com


Mick.
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