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- From: Dale.Frameli@311.ima.infomail.com (Dale Frameli)
- Date: 06 Mar 96 07:25:00
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Page Mode Zip Prevents Sever HD Problems
- Message-ID: <c2c_9603060734@ima.infomail.com>
- X-FTN-To: Rand R. Fredricksen
- Organization: Austin InfoMail Association - Austin, Texas
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- Check out what Rand R. Fredricksen said to All on 05 Mar 96 23:33:04:
-
- DF> I ran my A3000 for a couple of years without a problem... Then I added a
- DF> PP&S Mercury 68040 CPU and it ran slicker than owl sh*t for a few more
- DF> years :) Recently however, I removed my Mercury 040 (for sale). I
- DF> reinstalled the original Static Column Zip RAM chip, reassembled and
- DF> rebooted the system only to suffer a slew of various SCSI errors... I
- DF> had checksum errors, volumes that wouldn't validate, system crashes
- DF> during boot, etc... It was terrible! I tried everything I could think
- DF> of, but in the end, the thing that solved my problem was to reinstall the
- DF> Page Mode Zip Ram chip??? I was lucky to have had a spare sitting here!
-
- DF> Now PP&S provided that single Page Mode Zip RAM chip. Due to problems
- DF> with the DMAC and RAMSEY chips, the "PMZR" was provided as a means to
- DF> prevent off-board burst mode. Wierd thing is I have the latest version
- DF> DMAC and RAMSEY chip... And the Mercury is removed... So why does my
- DF> system freak out then I remove this chip??? Is the "Burst" info
- DF> something that can be stored in the A3000's NVRAM?
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- Rand> The battery in the A3000 does save some settings, including RAMSEY
- Rand> chip access mode.
-
- Rand, Thanks. I found SetBATT and ran it, the results are posted below. I'm
- assuming things are configured properly, but I really need a hardware guru to
- say for sure :) As far as I know, I have NOT had a battery failure... My
- clock still keeps acccurate time anyway.
-
-
- SetBATT Results
- ---------------
- Warning - a memory loss has occured on the Amiga side!
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- The SCSI selection timeout is SHORT (128 milliseconds).
- Logical SCSI units above 0 ARE NOT accessed.
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- Warning - a memory loss has occured on the shared Amiga/Unix side!
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- The SCSI controller's host ID is 7.
- Synchronous transfer is NOT INITIATED.
- Fast synchronous transfer is INITIATED (>5MB/s).
- SCSI-2 tagged queuing is DISABLED.
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