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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.073316.5646@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:33:16 EST
- References: <1992Nov16.142003.12937@zds-oem.zds.com> <1e8tjaINN8pn@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <1e8tjaINN8pn@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca>, c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
- >
- > benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:
- >> Ok, My 4000 has died (again!) this time 2 days after being returned
- >> from CBM Express.
- >
- > That bites...
- >
- >> I noticed that file-requesters were never updated correctly. If I saved
- >> a file and then went to load another file from the same program and same
- >> volume the file I had just saved would NOT appear in the requester unless
- >> I re-entered the volume name and forced it to look up the directory again.
- >
- > This sounds like a problem with the 68040 cache, and perhaps the disk caching
- > system. Try playing around with the CPU command, like turning off the cache...
- > I don't have a 4000 so this is just a guess...
- >
- >> Also when I hit CTRL-A-A to reboot the hard drive parks and spins-down
- >> then back up again. (seems kinda weird)!
- >
- > Yes it does... :)
- >
- >> For 3 grand I expect a little better ya know?
- >
- > Yeah... well, good luck with it...
-
- Has anyone noticed the following on an A4000?: When "heavy" hard
- disk activity is going on the video "jitters" up and down.
-
- I have just started noticing this. I haven't noticed whether it
- happens on all programs, definitely when using SAS/C 6. I would
- suspect a power supply problem. Any ideas or similar experiences?
-
- >
- > -Oliver
- >
- > --
- > \ Oliver Seiler /\ \ / / _ |||||
- > \ / \ \ / / /o\__ <--- My dream car... (o o)
- > \ / \ \/ /_______-O--O'_____ \^
- > \_Insomniak_/ \_c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca_/ _| |_
- Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization **
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