Hi Wolfgang,
like you I feel deep sympathy to the americans. I hope nobody on this list
has lost friends or relatives.
>I've recently had some time to play around with my all new Q60.
>
>I'm very happy with it, it is a nifty beast.
Nice to hear.
>I had to change one instruction in the ATAPI driver, else it would
>completely crash the machine
Just in case you refer to the MOVEP instruction:
The 68060 has no MOVEP. Just read the docs on your support disks, and use
the MOVEP-emulation software. All the crashes you reported to me will
disappear.
MOVEP was meant to deal with 8 bit peripherals on old 16 bit 68000 systems.
Motorola had removed it, because they saw no more need for this "outdated"
instruction. The best thing would be to remove all MOVEP instructions from
SMSQ/E. (Tony Tebby had said he wouldn't use any non-68060 instructions,
but unfortunately he overlooked MOVEP.)
CDROM driver:
>The bad point is: it is really s-l-o-w.
Indeed. No wonder. The CDROM driver is not optimized yet.
A general hint if you feel that IDE harddisk access is slow on SMSQ/E
systems with a lot of free RAM:
Waste memory!
The problem is due to the stupid SMSQ/E SLAVEing which incredibly slows
down disk access on machines with lots of RAM. The more free RAM you have,
the worse it gets.
We need to persuade TT to impose a limit on slaveblock usage or means to
disable SLAVEing.
All the best
Peter
