test-drb July 2001

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824 discussions

by jfoust＠threedee.com

It's always embarassing for me to have to ask Amiga questions here, but here goes... I'd like to make archival copies of the hard disk partitions in an A2000 and an A4000. I've got network cards and NFS running, so I want to find a tool for the Amiga that will convert a hard disk partition to an .HDF file that will mount under WinUAE. For example, I'd mount my NT machine's P: drive as NTp: on the Amiga, and the utility would write directly to "NTp:foo.hdf". I tried this once before with 'packdev' and no compression, but the results apparently weren't .HDF files and crashed the WinUAE emulator. Am I missing something obvious, like that the ADF-based tools will work with hard disks, too? - John

23 years, 5 months

How much is a partial Lisa worth?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> When I turn it on, the screen looks good and I can see it going through its > paces. It complains that there is no keyboard. I have no idea how much one > would cost, but I expect it's >$50. > > I do not know how to tell if has been "upgraded" to a Mac/XL or if it is > original. > > What's a good price for most of a Lisa? Too much. I've got a box of parts, from a Widget HD to RAM cards and maybe even a CPU card; two printer cards, etc. Just can't find the "handyman's special" I've been looking for... Regards, -dq

23 years, 5 months

[pups] adding MSCP driver to 2.9BSD

by sms＠TO.GD-ES.COM

Hi -- I'd normally be posting from my '2bsd.com' account but the circuit failed today and the telco is due out tomorrow (Saturday) morning. > From: "Jonathan Engdahl" <engdahl(a)cle.ab.com> > I took the MSCP disk driver (the ra driver) from the PRO-350 > version of 2.9BSD on the PUPS archive, and added it to the Ah, I didn't know that someone had created a MSCP driver for 2.9 > I have figured out that the autoconfig will not work with this > driver. It reports "No autoconfig routines". Evidently, probe is > not implemented in either the 2.9 or 2.11 version of the MSCP driver. > I don't know about 2.9 but I do know just a little bit about 2.11 and the MSCP (and TMSCP) drivers 'probe' and "autoconfig" just fine. In fact in 2.11 floating vectors are allocated descending from 01000 and programmed into the adaptor for secondary controllers (the primary/first/boot controller always gets 0154). > So, how to I get UNIX to "attach" the ra driver? When you updated the kernel did you also update the 'autoconfig' process? In 2.11 there is /sys/autoconfig and whenever a new device driver is added to the kernel it is also necessary to update the autoconfig code with a 'XXauto.c" file and an entry in a couple tables. As I recall on 2.9 the autoconf stuff was intermingled with the regular driver sources which made for a bit of a mess. When 2.11 came around the chance was taken to clean things up. Programmable vector devices (such as MSCP) are a VERY awkward thing for 'autoconfig' to deal with. Prior to 2.11 the vectors were more or less hardcoded in 'l.s' (or was it scb.s or locore.s - gads my memory is slipping) and the driver. 'autoconfig' was mostly a double check that a device was really present. 2.11 has the kernel hooks for 'autoconfig' to request a dynamically allocated vector which can be assigned to a device - bit of a hack but fairly elegantly done. > This is the first time I've tried doing a UNIX sysgen, so extra > explanations might be required. The only documentation I have is > what I downloaded along with the distribution. Look in /sys/pdpuba and see if you can find the '*auto.c' files - follow their lead and craft something for 'autoconfig'. The simplest case is to just "check that something exists" at the CSR and return 'true' - don't try to force an interrupt, etc. Perhaps some other folks who have run 2.9 more recently (or who have better memory than I do ;)) can jump in here. Steven Schultz sms(a)moe.2bsd.com (when the circuit gets fixed ;))

23 years, 5 months

OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

>I for one don't have a problem with that but it would be easy (prehaps too >easy) for the system to be abused or be modified to be invasive to law >abiding citizens. Exactly. LEOs are people too, and a percentage of them are bad people. Some are good people doing things badly. Consider the Santa Cruz police department illegally scanning all cellular phone traffic in a area where they believed protest organizers _might_ be using cell phones to co-ordinate. Never mind that you need a court order to listen in on someone's phone call. Ref: San Jose Mercury news. If you believe an honest citizen (or police officer) is someone who hasn't yet had a big enough temptation to become a criminal, then opening up a free candy store (as things like Carnivore are) in front of them is just plain bad policy. --Chuck

23 years, 5 months

OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote (after Richard Erlacher): > Interesting concept about capital punishment for trivial crimes. Would > that also be the punishment for failing to adequately trim quotes? When > do we start? Shortly after we have successful implementation of a universal requirement for authentication of e-mail senders. (Don't hold your breath.) -Frank McConnell

23 years, 5 months

4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

> > You'd like it here in Florida. Fireworks have made a real come >back. I was outside on the 3rd and 4th and fireworks were popping off in >every direction all day and all night long. It's still technically illegal >to shoot them but it's seldom enforced now. Around this time of year and >on January 1, every major intersection has a large stand selling fireworks. >Most of them are the wimpy class C stuff but they make up for it in shear >volume. There are even a number of stores that sell nothing but fireworks >that are now open year round. I stopped at one at I-95 and SR 520 and >stocked up the week before. I think the state law here in Florida is that you cannot ignite any fireworks other than class "C" without a permit and permits are only given to professional pyromaniacs. Basically, that leaves sparklers and smoke bombs the only legal devices that individuals can display. However... In Broward County where I live, if you are over 18 and sign a waiver stating that you will not ignite them within the state, you can legally buy whatever kind of fireworks that you want. Cherry bombs, m-80s, arial displays (mortars), bottle rockets, roman candles, you name it. The sheriff will routinely check the vendors to make sure they are complying but once you leave the store, all bets are off. There is absolutely no enforcement of the restrictions on individuals. My ears are still ringing and I'm still choking from all the smoke. SteveRob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

23 years, 5 months

please help ID a few Apple ][ boards

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 6, 10:54, Mike wrote: > 3. SSM Microcomputer APPIC > http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/d/o/dogas/A2cardsd.jpg Not sure about the others (though A2cardsc.jpg looks familiar) but this one is an Apple Parallel Printer Interface Card, for an Epson or Centronics printer. Put it in slot 1 and type PR#1 to print. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 5 months

Ancient LaserJet-3 question

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 5, 19:20, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > --- Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> wrote: > > I don't suppose it uses a MIO card? > > > > -Lawrence LeMay > > > > > Does anyone out there have a 10BaseT card they can't use > > How could I tell? The LJIII cards are the size of my hand with a centered > set of edge card fingers on on short end. They are 1/2 the size of LJ4 > cards. I thought the cards were the same, but the LJ4 has an extra blanking plate? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 5 months

Space War?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Are there any ports of SPACEWAR to the Mac or PC that are > completely true to the original? To add a little more detail to Tom Uban's reply, the version of Spacewar you get from the website url he listed is the *actual* *original* binary executable of the Spacewar program. It runs on an emulated PDP-1 that's written in Java and which gets downloaded to your PC or Mac when you go to the web page. So, the Spacewar *program* is as close to the original as possible, since it *is* the original. The real question to ask, is how close to a real PDP-1 does the emulator come? Regards, -doug q

23 years, 5 months

Ebay: Heathkit IT-21 Tube Checker

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1614357896

23 years, 5 months

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