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- From: c948374@mona.mbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP! Accessing RAM: crashes my A3000!
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 16:08:16 GMT
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- On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:16:39 GMT Ken Smith (Ken@kenwyn.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- > 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.
-
- > > 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?
-
- > An older version of Ramdisk.device maybe ?
-
- Nice try. ramdrive.device is *not* used for the RAM: disk. However, OS 1.x
- systems need L:RAM-Handler for the RAM: disk, I think.
-
- Try deleting L:RAM-Handler, and you system should work with OS 2.0+
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- Regards,
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