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Blizzard 2040 ERC & 2060
Company
Phase 5 Digital Products
, Germany
Date
1996
Amiga
A2000
Interface
CPU slot
Autoconfig ID
8512 / 24
processor
68040 @ 40 MHz / 68060 @ 50 MHz
the 68040s are recycled from used Macs
memory
four 72 pin SIMM sockets accept 128 MB RAM
supports 4, 8, 16, 32 MB SIMMs, 70 ns or faster
fully autoconfiguring
maprom selectable by jumper
Fast SCSI 2 DMA controller
7 MB/s asynchronous, 10 MB/s synchronous transfer speed
50 pin internal header
50 pin external connector
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
notes
68000 fallback mode selectable with a simple keystroke at startup - works only with rev. B A2000s
Blizzard 2040 ERC boards with SN# A400001 - A400094 were delivered with a defective DiagROM
the 68040 processor is recognized as 68LC040 or 68EC040
boards with these serial numbers had to be sent back to Phase5 to obtain a new DiagROM set including a new SCSI driver
Photos
front side
back side
front side
front side
back side
back side
Manual
Blizzard2060-de.pdf
user manual (DCE, german)
158 kB
Blizzard2060.pdf
DCE
user manual (DCE, english)
160 kB
Driver / Installation Disk
P5-SystemDisk-421.dms
install disk v2.0
68060.library v42.1 (14.10.1997), ppc.library v44.29Beta
297 kB
P5-SystemDisk-431.dms
install disk v2.0
68060.library v43.1 (05.02.1998), ppc.library 45.17Beta
353 kB
P5-SCSI-Tools-13.dms
SCSI tool disk v1.3
(for driver versions before v7.x)
425 kB
P5-SCSI-Tools-20.lha
SCSI tool disk v2.0
222 kB
P5-SCSI-Tools-21.dms
SCSI tool disk v2.1
287 kB
P5-SCSI-Tools-22.dms
SCSI tool disk v2.2
520 kB
P5-SCSI-Tools-24.dms
SCSI tool disk v2.4
520 kB
Vintage Advert
Advert (DE)
1995-08
Advert (DE)
1996-05
Advert (DE)
1996-09
Benchmark
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