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- From: spack@adobe.com ( Scott Pack)
- Subject: Re: HELP! Accessing RAM: crashes my A3000!
- Message-ID: <spack-1902961331000001@144.7.18.64>
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- References: <4fubjn$dnd@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:29:55 GMT
-
- In article <4fubjn$dnd@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>, dave@CS.Arizona.EDU (Dave
- Schaumann) wrote:
-
- > Last night, I decided to reinstall the system software in my
- > Softkicked A3000 (running WB 2.04 with 2meg chip RAM and 4 meg
- > fast RAM). As far as I could tell, everything went fine with
- > the installation. However, when I rebooted, the machine guru-ed
- > (8000 0004) before the startup sequence completed.
- >
- > After much investigations, it appears that said crash can be
- > invoked by any access to the ram: disk. This also occurs when
- > booting in 1.3 mode.
- >
- > After removing all references to ram: from my startup sequence,
- > I can now boot my machine (in fact, I'm writing this using terminus
- > on it right now).
- >
- > Can anyone venture a guess as to why accessign RAM: would crash
- > my machine when everything else is apparently OK?
- >
- > Thanks in advance...
- > -Dave
-
- I had the exact same symptom, and too thought it was the ramdisk device.
- However I determined that the RAD device was corrupted. Try replacing
- your RAD device located in your DEVS: directory.
-
- -Scott
- spack@adobe.com
-