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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Fredrick Etter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: PAR and Mercury 040
Date: 14 Jan 1996 06:01:36 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Here I am again, asking for more help. I wish someone would ask a
question I could answer so I wouldn't feel like such a leach, but here
it goes anyway:
I have an A3000 w/18 megs on the motherboard, a Merc 040 w/32megs, a
Toaster, and a VLab. This is a 2.04 ROM system. Before installing the
PAR, the Merc was working jsut fine. I installed the PAR and it worked
the first time I tried it.  Amazing! Then things went bad. I shut down
my 3000 and, later, when I turned it back on and ran the PAR software,
it would load and then bomb. I got the error code #8000 0004. After
futzing around, I've discovered that I can make the PAR work if I reboot
in 030 mode. I've also discovered that after awhile the 040 stops
working. If I leave the 3000 off for awhile, it works again. So what I
began to suspect was that the heat from the PAR drive (which can get a
bit toasty) might be fouling the 040. But what is it about the 040 that
causes the PAR not to work? And why did it work in 040 mode the first
time I tried it? Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dan