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- rmorewoo@cln.etc.bc.ca (Robert Morewood) wrote:
- >
- >Since I installed my Derringer accelerator with a 68030 precessor in my
- >Amiga 2000, several programs which access the SCSI hard drives at a lower
- >level(?) have been crashing hard: No error message, black screen,
- >flashing power LED. Everything is fine when I switch back to the 68000.
- >
- >Offending software includes Commodore's HDTOOLBOX, the
- >MultiDosFileSystem, and MORE applied to the PCDisk-Handler.
- >
- >Could the problem by the SCSI.Device? (I am using Workbench 2.04)
- >Or are there any settings I should be looking for on my Hard drive?
- >One of my partitions is reporting a mask value of 0xFFFFFFFE even though
- >I used HDToolBox to set the mask to 0x00FFFFFE.
- >
- >Thanks for any hints.
-
- Its called DMA problems. My MegaMidgetRacer does the same thing. You need to
- shut off the 32-bit memory when you want to access the drives at a "low-level".
- The mask setting "should" be (according to Dave Haynie) 0x7ffffffe. I have
- tried many, and none really change anything.
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