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- From: Ken@kenwyn.demon.co.uk (Ken Smith)
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- Subject: Re: HELP! Accessing RAM: crashes my A3000!
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:16:39 GMT
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- On 15-Feb-96 09:08:23, Dave Schaumann wrote this about HELP! Accessing RAM:
- crashes my A3000!;
- > 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.
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- > 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.
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- > 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).
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- > Can anyone venture a guess as to why accessign RAM: would crash
- > my machine when everything else is apparently OK?
-
- > Thanks in advance...
- > -Dave
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- An older version of Ramdisk.device maybe ?
-
- Ken...................
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