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Re: What's the latest on A1000 expansion flakeyness

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From: 0040;0000008360;0;340;141;
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 08:26
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In article <32426@sgi.SGI.COM> karsh@trifolium.UUCP (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>I recently added an Expansion Technologies 48mb disk drive and a Spirit
>.5Mb memory expansion to my Amiga 1000.  I wound up with a case of the
>Amiga 1000 expansion flakies!

...

>
>     *  Attach a separate ground wire from the 68000 processor's ground
>	pin
>	to the motherboard ground.

	I myself have .5 megs on a spirit board, with a Cltd SCSI.
I had the EXACT (and I mean exact) same problem. After hooking up the
68000 ground, the computer worked fine. (Only crashes every few days
now...)
	Good Luck!

	-Bruce Rogers
	currently u555917504ea@minnie.ucdavis.edu

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Subject: Re: What's the latest on A1000 expansion flakeyness
Summary: ground 68000 for spirit to work.
Keywords: expansion,spirit,ground,spam,fix
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Date: 10 May 89 08:26:29 GMT
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