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- From: dave@CS.Arizona.EDU (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Broken RAM: update (was Re: HELP! Accessing RAM: crashes my A3000!)
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 19:11:56 -0700
- Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
- Message-ID: <4g3dhc$g2r@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>
- References: <4fubjn$dnd@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU> <1128.6619T986T1621@kenwyn.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1128.6619T986T1621@kenwyn.demon.co.uk>,
- Ken Smith <Ken@kenwyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- [...]
- >An older version of Ramdisk.device maybe ?
-
- Someone also suggested this to me in e-mail. Does wb2.04 use the
- ramdisk.device? I see no mention of it in _Using the System Software_.
-
- Also, I have an update on the behavior. I originally wrote:
- >> After much investigations, it appears that said crash can be
- >> invoked by any access to the ram: disk.
-
- It turns out this is not entirely true. I can, for example, use
- makedir to create a directory on ram:. I also discovered that I
- can use terminus to download a file to ram:.
-
- Some things that *do* cause my machine to crash: in the shell,
- changing directory to ram: and attempting to use copy to copy
- a file to ram:. If I use makedir to create a directory on ram:,
- the ram: icon appears on the workbench. If I then double-click
- the icon to open it, the window opens, but the machine immediately
- locks up followed shortly by a visit to the guru.
-
- I'm beginning to think I have a bad kickstart image. Version shows
- kickstart version 37.175 and workbench version 37.67. devs:kickstart
- is 526848 bytes long. Unfortunately, I have no idea what these values
- were before this debacle started. If someone else out there has a
- soft-kicked A3000 with WB2.04 installed, could you please check these
- values against what you have on your machine and e-mail me the results?
-
- Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.
-
- -Dave
-