| From: | Nick Lamburn |
| Date: | 1 Sep 2000 at 12:56:53 |
| Subject: | Super Dead Buster ;-) |
Hello
Only I can do these amount of damaging things to an Amiga! :-) Anyway today
i have inflicted damage upon a poor A3000. Poor because it live here with
me ;-)
Anyway, the A3000 did have a Super Buster rev. 6 so it was a very early one.
After trying to remove it, with suffice to say, wrong tool i damaged so that
it no longer works, well at least the Super Buster chip anyway ;-). As it's
a rev. 6 i'm not really that distraught, also I happen to have a rev. 11
Super Buster however it appears to have a slightly damaged corner, so I hope
it works. (Because frankly £50 for a c.1992 chip about 2.5cm Sq. is a
exploitation imo!) The A3000 still works fine, except absolutely no Zorro
boards are recognised, so my Picasso IV, and GoldenGate 386SX are sitting
there nice and idle. :-(
Anyway apart from this story (I have ordered the proper removal tool now :-)
I have a few questions about the Super Buster chip.
As far as I am aware, the rev. 6 buster does not implement Zorro III DMA,
does the rev. 7 however?
Is there a rev. 8 Buster about, it's just I have *never* heard of it before.
Is there a rev. 10 Buster, likewise i have *never* heard of it again.
If I was to aquire a Buster rev. 7 - would that be quite alright to drive a
GGate 386SX and PIV, and soon a Budda IDE card? (There's one Zorro slot
left, what could i plug in there.... :-)
Last question: does the A3000 fast slot for accelerators utilise Buster as
well, or is that only Zorro that uses it? Ok that's all for now folks, until
the next disaster... :-) (Like breaking the Buster's chip carrier or
similar :-))
After this I have to do the INT2 fix, hehe :-))
All the best,
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