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- Subject: Re: HELP! Accessing RAM: crashes my A3000!
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- References: <4fubjn$dnd@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>
- Distribution: world
- From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
- Message-ID: <johnv.09id@acix.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 22:30:35 +0800
- Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.
-
- In article dated 14 Feb 1996 21:08:23 -0700, Dave Schaumann (dave@CS.Arizona.EDU) 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.
-
- I saw this (and fixed it!) on a friends Phoenix A1000. Turned out that
- what he had done was install the fastfilesystem on both his hard drives.
- To make it even more interesting he had different versions on either
- drive. One drive had 1.3, the other 2.04. When booting 1.3, it would
- come up fine, but he had practically no fast ram. 2.04 could be persuaded
- to boot only by removing all reference to RAM: from his startup sequence.
-
- Do you have multiple hard drives? Do you have the filesystem installed on
- both drives? Check if the versions and sizes match. Remove the
- fastfilesystem from one of the drives.
-
- --
- _--_|\ John Verhoeven (johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au or johnv@DIALix.oz.au)
- / \ >>>> Writing programs in assembler is like digging post <<<<
- *_.--._/ >>>> holes with a teaspoon: it takes a long time, but <<<<
- v >>>> you have complete control over all the dirt. <<<<
-