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- Jeff Howard wrote:
- >
- > Hope this is the place for this post:
- >
- > I just installed a Seagate 1 gig drive onto my dataflyer 500 (Amiga 500
- > with a Derringer 68030 and 50mhz 82 math).
- >
- > Some of my programs no longer load from the hard drive, even though they
- > load from both the floppy and if copied into ram...Sparks, Bars&PipesPro,
- > and I believe ALynx, for example.
- >
- > If run from shell, the message is "unable to load your tool <whatever>,
- > bad loadfile hunk."
- >
- > I've tried both Quarterback Tools and Amiback Tools. Amiback wiped out a
- > couple of "bad header blocks (?)" but copying the above mentioned files
- > back onto the drive - still can't seem to get them to run except, of
- > course, from the floppies or ram.
- >
- > What am I missing?
-
- Could be a problem with the max transfer setting or the DMA mask
- setting. Doesn't CSA reccomend 0x7ffffffe as the mask setting?
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