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- From: j1lee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (--- James C. Lee ---)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Need advice on A500 Trumpcard 500AT
- Message-ID: <37273@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 10:29:48 GMT
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- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- Hello... I recently got a Trumpcard 500AT, but it did not work at
- first. The setup-utility seemed to pause when I run it and it never went
- to the format screen. Well, as it turned out, it was the problem with
- the drive (I had a Xelek 120.6 MG, and it didn't recognize the drive).
-
- Anyway, so I went out and replaced the drive with a Connor 170MG drive.
- Now everything works, or at least I thought so. It scanned the drive,
- showed that there were no errors, then went on setting up the drive.
- After that, the HD boots and everything seems to go fine with one
- exception--every once a while, the drive gives a little "Volume b -
- checksum error block 10038"... Sometimes it gives the same block number
- and sometimes it jumps around between five or six numbers. Everytime
- this happens, when I reboot the computer, the problem disappears. I
- didn't think the problem was very major until finally one of the blocks
- (with checksum error) remained there even after a cold-boot. It didn't
- validate one of the two partitions, and therefore I decided to re-setup
- the drive. Now it's still giving me a few checksums here and there
- (maybe a couple every few hours or so)...
-
- So what's wrong with this? Does the power-supply have to do with this?
- I have an A500 with an external drive and Trumpcard 500AT with 170 MB
- Connor drive and 5 MB of RAM. If so, which power-supply do you recommend
- that I get? Also, does it help if I disconnect the external drive? Or
- is it an entirely different problem?
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- James (j1lee@sdcc13.ucsd.edu)
-