Buster 11 is working

[TheGoose]

Nope - just a single Super Buster (various revs though). Guess the one that didn't work was just dead.

That's what I meant, a revision. I suppose it could have just been a bad. Like I said at the start, have no way to prove it.

[TheGoose]

And tonight I just installed a bad ass:

Seagate Cheetah 18.4GB Hard Drive 15,000 RPM
link

To replace the shipped drive which was:

IBM DPES-31080-S1S (1.05GB) 5400 RPM
link

It's Smokin.

:afro:

[tone007]

15,000 RPM

That's more than twice the redline of most cars' engines!

[TheGoose]

My Amiga now goes whooo whooo!


Yeah I'm in the F1 ranks now.

[alexh]

That's what I meant, a revision.

Erm the -11 is the revision. If you had a different revision, then it wouldn't be a Buster 11

I suppose it could have just been a bad.

I very much suspect that. AFAIK there is only one Buster -11

[johnklos]

Damn - so I guess I should try to exchange my non-working Buster-11... What a pain in the...

On the other hand, even though my A3000 has a Buster-7, I can still boot NetBSD with a FastLane Z3 and use the Z3 memory without problems. I suppose if I tried to use the SCSI on the FastLane it'd probably be cranky...

[Mark]

I bought a Buster version 11, but it wouldn't work in my A3000D. With it installed, none of the Zorro cards would be recognized, so I reinstalled my Buster version 7.

If you have a 16 MHz A3000 then that is normal:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=318304#post318304

[johnklos]

If you have a 16 MHz A3000 then that is normal:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=318304#post318304

Thank you. An answer, even if it isn't what we wanted to hear, is more satisfying than a lingering mystery. At least I won't buy another thinking this one is bad.

At 16 MHz, there won't be much of a speed difference between the motherboard SCSI and the FastLane SCSI, so I think it'll be fine just as it is.

[Zac67]

It's pretty easy to change a 16 MHz machine to 25 MHz. Nothing more than exchange the oscillator clock and move a few jumpers. The CPU/FPU may be rated at 16 MHz but MC parts were qualified at double(!) clock speed.

[TheGoose]

It's pretty easy to change a 16 MHz machine to 25 MHz. Nothing more than exchange the oscillator clock and move a few jumpers. The CPU/FPU may be rated at 16 MHz but MC parts were qualified at double(!) clock speed.

Hmm, so this applies to to the 25Mhz machines too? We could go to 50Mhz?

[Zac67]

Hmm, so this applies to to the 25Mhz machines too? We could go to 50Mhz?

In theory. It's not just the CPU/FPU combo that'd be running at that speed.

The jumpers that need to be moved from 16 to 25 MHz add wait states for ROM and RAM which wouldn't be able to respond within 40 ns. But there's no setting for clock speeds beyond 25.