Classic Workbench; Problems with aca1233 accelerator.

[wrath of khan]

Apparently my cf card is divided into three partitions. Could this be causing problems? I am running everything from this card though I have floppies with workbench too.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Do you boot off of more than one partition?

[wrath of khan]

Do you boot off of more than one partition?

Ive no idea. It boots up into classic workbench. I have whdload and other programs
Would i have access to all three partitions upon boot up or do i need to access the other partitions someow?
Are partitions problematic here?

[paul1981]

Ive no idea. It boots up into classic workbench. I have whdload and other programs
Would i have access to all three partitions upon boot up or do i need to access the other partitions someow?
Are partitions problematic here?

You need to go back to basics like I said previously. Cold boot your Amiga from your Workbench floppy. Open a shell, and run the acatune command from your acatune floppy. So if your acatune command is in a drawer called 'acatunev17' then in the shell you would type 'df0:acatunev17/acatune'

If it runs correctly, you will see the extra memory appear as 'other mem' at the top of the Workbench screen. Let us know if that works. BTW... what's your name?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

BTW... what's your name?

He throws me every time with that icon for David Pleasance.  

[wrath of khan]

You need to go back to basics like I said previously. Cold boot your Amiga from your Workbench floppy. Open a shell, and run the acatune command from your acatune floppy. So if your acatune command is in a drawer called 'acatunev17' then in the shell you would type 'df0:acatunev17/acatune'

If it runs correctly, you will see the extra memory appear as 'other mem' at the top of the Workbench screen. Let us know if that works. BTW... what's your name?

My name is Adrian, I'm over at eab under the same name, Adrian Browne. I tend to use the moniker "wrath of khan" as in star trek 2, on all other forums though; it kinda stuck.

I had an a500 when I was 11 and always loved miggys ever since. I had an a1200, which I purchased around 1996 but I donated it to a natami team member many moons ago, not that I am waiting on natami. Had a cd32 once upon a time but I sold it years ago. I picked up this a1200 on e-bay for a bargain.

I still have the original a500 of course and it needs repairs and cleaning.

@ oldsmobile mike, yeah I picked the Donald Pleasance avatar as a joke tbh. He was the would be saviour of commodore, alas skullduggery thwarted him or was it the Japanese. He was a prominent figure in amiga mags in the u.k particularly when commodore were in dire straits. He even had an ask "donald Pleasance section in a mag.

So, run the acatune maprom command or the line I added to the startup menu? I must be getting confused here. I can get the other mem to work, it seems but it disappears upon reboot. are you still referring to copying the acatune to ram here?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I think the extra mem is going to disappear upon a hard reboot (i.e., you completely turn the power off). Does it survive a soft reboot (i.e., once you execute the acatune software, does the memory stay active if you press Ctrl+A+A? Or do you need to execute acatune every time?). Paul would be the one who would know about this. My understanding stops beyond that it needs to be executed first in the startup-sequence with the proper options, and I'm still concerned that some of your ClassicWB stuff may be interfering with it (as Paul pointed out).  Have you copied it to the C: directory of your boot partition yet?

Boy do I miss the days of Commodore skullduggery! Now all we have is community backbiting and in-fighting. Was a lot more fun when we were unified against a common enemy. Kind of like the cold war, LOL.

[wrath of khan]

I think the extra mem is going to disappear upon a hard reboot (i.e., you completely turn the power off). Does it survive a soft reboot (i.e., once you execute the acatune software, does the memory stay active if you press Ctrl+A+A? Or do you need to execute acatune every time?). Paul would be the one who would know about this. My understanding stops beyond that it needs to be executed first in the startup-sequence with the proper options, and I'm still concerned that some of your ClassicWB stuff may be interfering with it (as Paul pointed out).  Have you copied it to the C: directory of your boot partition yet?

Boy do I miss the days of Commodore skullduggery! Now all we have is community backbiting and in-fighting. Was a lot more fun when we were unified against a common enemy. Kind of like the cold war, LOL.

Yes all the fighters went to amiga.org and all the pacifists went to eab.
 How do I copy it to the "C" directory of my boot partition? The aca tune readme says to do this but it does not say how. The other mem disappears after a hard and a soft reset.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

How do I copy it to the "C" directory of my boot partition? The aca tune readme says to do this but it does not say how. The other mem disappears after a hard and a soft reset.

You need to get the acatune command into your SYS:C directory.  If you had a directory utility like DirOpus or DirWork it would be easy.  ClassicWB probably comes with something similar, but I'm unfamiliar with it.  Barring that, just copy it via the shell (see post #39 in this thread).
 
 At a command line type:
 
 copy df0:where_ever_the_file_is_saved_now to SYS:C
 
 

[wrath of khan]

You need to get the acatune command into your SYS:C directory.  If you had a directory utility like DirOpus or DirWork it would be easy.  ClassicWB probably comes with something similar, but I'm unfamiliar with it.  Barring that, just copy it via the shell (see post #39 in this thread).
 
 At a command line type:
 
 copy df0:where_ever_the_file_is_saved_now to SYS:C
 
 

So in a command line i should write: copy df0:c/acatune to SYS:C ?
I have DirOpus on my workbench btw.
Edit; I wrote above the command into a shell window, it said: unknown command; the acatune disk was in the drive when I tried the command in the shell. What exactly should I type? I guess this thread is getting long in the tooth...damn aca card or classic workbench...grrrr...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Gaah, you're killing me now, man. You just need to copy the file from where ever it is on the floppy disk, into the C directory on your hard drive. Have you never used DOS before?

Like if the file is in the directory "Tools", you'd type:

copy df0:tools/acatune to SYS:C

Or if the file is in a directory called "Utilities", you'd type:

copy df0:utilities/acatune to SYS:C

Or if the file is on a floppy disk in an external drive, you'd replace df0: with df1: or df2: or whatever your floppy disk is. Are you familiar with commands like CD, Dir, List, etc.? You're making me feel like an old fogey now, for using dos commands, haha.

I don't know where the file is on the floppy disk, but it's there somewhere, probably in some subdirectory. You need to get it from there, into the C directory on your boot partition so you can add it to your Startup-Sequence.

[wrath of khan]

Gaah, you're killing me now, man. You just need to copy the file from where ever it is on the floppy disk, into the C directory on your hard drive. Have you never used DOS before?

Like if the file is in the directory "Tools", you'd type:

copy df0:tools/acatune to SYS:C

Or if the file is in a directory called "Utilities", you'd type:

copy df0:utilities/acatune to SYS:C

Or if the file is on a floppy disk in an external drive, you'd replace df0: with df1: or df2: or whatever your floppy disk is. Are you familiar with commands like CD, Dir, List, etc.? You're making me feel like an old fogey now, for using dos commands, haha.

I don't know where the file is on the floppy disk, but it's there somewhere, probably in some subdirectory. You need to get it from there, into the C directory on your boot partition so you can add it to your Startup-Sequence.

Nope, only used command lines for formatting and copying disks many moons ago. I insert the disk, the acatune appears as an icon on my desktop. I click it and a window opens; inside is acatune icon and a readme icon. I have no idea where any other files pertaining to acatune might be, if thats what you mean.
Here's a pic, ignore the memory info at the top, the cards maprom feature has not been activated by me yet. How the heck do I locate the acatune directory then?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You need to get a book, man.  
 
 Put the disk in the floppy drive.  I assume you only have one drive, so that's df0:
 
 Open a Shell window (usually in Workbench:System, in your case it would probably be in WB:System, since your Workbench partition is named weirdly).
 
 Type:
 
 cd df0:
 
 then type:
 
 list
 
 We need to find where on the disk the command is located.  Respond back with a screenshot of the directory listing of df0:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Just looking at the top of your screenshot again, ClassicWB is eating up more than half of your available chip memory. That is *HORRIBLE*, BTW. Dislike, seriously. Hopefully when you get the memory activated on your ACA, that will resolve itself somewhat.

[wrath of khan]

You need to get a book, man.  
 
 Put the disk in the floppy drive.  I assume you only have one drive, so that's df0:
 
 Open a Shell window (usually in Workbench:System, in your case it would probably be in WB:System, since your Workbench partition is named weirdly).
 
 Type:
 
 cd df0:
 
 then type:
 
 list
 
 We need to find where on the disk the command is located.  Respond back with a screenshot of the directory listing of df0:

I typed "cd df0:" into the shell, i then hit the return key.
Then i typed list and hit the return key again.
And yes i only have one disk drive, Here's the pic

Sheesh, I gotta hit the sack as I have work in 7 hours... To be continued...
Good night Mike...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

All right, well it looks like there's only three files on that disk:

ACATune-readme.txt
ACATune
Disk.info

That makes it easy. Ignore the Disk.info, that's just the icon for when you install the disk.

So:

copy df0:ACATune to SYS:C

That will put the acatune command into your C directory. Now perform the Startup-Sequence edits from earlier in this thread.