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- From: "john golitsis" <john.golitsis@canrem.com>
- Subject: a1200 ide problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.4509.26765@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "john golitsis" <john.golitsis@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 18 Dec 92 00:25:20 EST
- Lines: 37
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- I too have been having many problems with the A1200 IDE interface. I
- work at an Amiga dealership on the University of Toronto (Ontario,
- Canada) and we have had two A1200 come into stock so far. I purchased
- Quantum 80MB Go-Drives to install into the machines. I experienced the
- exact same problems as Mr. Andy Colebourne stated in his message of Dec.
- 14, namely large files become corrupt. Commodore Canada tech. support
- came up with some storey about ADOS 3.0 having a bug which corrupts
- files which are greater than 1/2 the available RAM. This does not match
- the testing I have done.
-
- The only way I have been able to get the IDE drive working properly is
- to NOT use the Fast File System...these seems to be reliable with the
- amount of testing I have been able to do.
-
- The really bad news is that BOTH our A1200 have serious problems after
- the hard drive has been installed and running. After awhile (from 5
- minutes to 1 day so far) the 1200 will do something really weird to the
- hard drive and the system will refuse to boot! The power LED flashes,
- the system resets, and the whole thing happens again and again.
-
- This time, according to Commodore tech. support, a bunch of A1200 CPU's
- went out the door with poor soldering jobs. The serial numbers on these
- system with 888 and 889 so I can sort of understand this (sort of...)
-
- I definately don't want to start any bad Q.C. rumors here. The A1200
- appears to be an excellent machine and the performance on the system
- with the Quantum Go-Drive appeared to be excellent before these failures
- began to crop up.
-
- By the way...I experienced the exact same problems on our store demos
- A4000 when I tried to add a second (Maxtor) hard drive. Large files
- would become corrupt. I gave up on trying to installed this drive after
- 2 days of fiddling. I think there are some problems with the V39 Fast
- File System...
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