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25 September 2009, 03:57
I am currently working on my Amiga 2000 with a VXL30 which had a EC030 clocked at 40 MHz. I purchased a 50 MHz 030 with a MMU (while still using the 40 MHz crystal). Looking at the pin side of the 2 CPUs the the mmu cpu has 2 more pins which line up with the socket on the VXL. I can't find any jumper setting to use the MMU. ( I assumed that just installing the new chip would make it available). When I run AIBB it does not register that there is a MMU. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Also reading the manuals, there is a note stating that clocking the CPU at 50 MHz runs into problems Does anyone know what the problems are?
Any help would be greatly appreaciated.
Thanks.
Zetr0
25 September 2009, 04:03
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I have the same setup, the difference is I am yet to put my MC68030@40 in there, (motherboard issues.... oh my am I plauged!)
I have the manual, I will scan it and up it for you. as far as I know the MMU is integral to the CPU and thats how its recognised, although, saying that I could be wrong... I will need to check.
Toni Wilen
25 September 2009, 10:46
AFAIK most programs only show if MMU is currently active, not if it is available. AmigaOS does not need or use 68030 MMU normally. (Things get different with 68040+)
Detecting between 68030 and 68EC030 is practically impossible because at least some EC030's have broken MMU that can crash the system if it is used.
Lockon
25 September 2009, 12:56
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Increasing CPU clock might have impact on PAL chips.
Check board revision.
http://amiga.resource.cx/manual/VXL30-Configuration.pdf
rkauer
25 September 2009, 18:40
To test the MMU just issue the command "CPU fastROM" in a CLI window, then use Sysinfo to show the MMU use.
source
29 September 2009, 08:02
Thanx it appeared on sysinfo.
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