I have been looking around, trying to figure out how to get more memory in my 3000UX for AMIX to use. Whilst trawling through Usenet, I noticed a post from one of the Commodore devs stating something to the effect that the memory management model of AMIX uses only the first available contiguous block of memory. For this reason, ZII and ZIII memory cannot be used together. It is also stated that AMIX does not use chip RAM.
So to get right down to it: I am looking for someone with an A3000 to try an experiment.
Remove all the fast RAM from the motherboard, and put in a ZIII memory board (DKB 3128, maybe). Boot from the boot floppy, and note how much memory is available or, indeed, if it boots at all.
Another thing to try, is I am curious of the behavior if an A2091 installed with 2MB is booted using a system that has fast RAM on the motherboard. My thought: won't work. But as the A2091 is supported in AMIX, I would like to see someone give this a try too.
I know pulling the RAM from the mobo is a bit of a pain, but it would be really helpful for the legions of AMIX users (at last count, around 10 ;-)) to know if any memory expansion is possible. AMIX flies along pretty well with 16MB, it would be a joy to have more.
Finally, I am working on getting the NTP suite of software to run correctly in AMIX to get around the Y2K issue with the setclk utility. Anybody with a network enabled AMIX installation care to help me get it going?
l8rz :-)
