| From: | Greg Tallent |
| Date: | 13 Jun 2000 at 21:14:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Oddities with MTec 020i in A2000 with OS3.1/3.5 |
Back on 13-Jun-00 07:11:39 Don Cox doncox@enterprise.net Wrote:
> Hello Greg
> On 12-Jun-00, Greg Tallent wrote:
>> Back on 11-Jun-00 23:16:09 Alan W. Rateliff, II forager@talstar.com
>> Wrote:
>>> Interesting thing that I finalized tonight. I found that using OS3.5
>>> in my Amiga 2000 with an MTec 020i accelerator does not work
>>> properly. For whatever reason the system absolutely REFUSES to boot
>>> after the application of SetPatch after a cold boot. It continuously
>>> crashes everytime it comes back up.
>>
>> Ouch, the M-Tec 020i accelerator is pretty much a pile of trash. I
>> know because I have one here in my old 500.
> It might pay to get a newer accelerator. The Phase5 2040 (which I think
> is available from DCE) is working well with OS3.5 in an A2000 here.
> It's worth hanging on to an A2000 in spite of its age because it has
> five slots.
Dunno, my GVP 040/33(in the .sig) has been working pretty well for about 6
years now. :)
The whole reason that I still use a 2000 is for it's slots, while they're slow
still it's far easier to add stuff to this computer than a 4000 or 3000.
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