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From: RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: problems with an a590
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Date: 27 Oct 89 05:51:00 GMT
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a local amigoid recently bought an a590 and has been having an
entertaining time of it. his description of his troubles follow:

Setup: A500, A590 20meg harddrive, 2 Megs RAM.
Shareware version of NAG no longer works since hdrive has been added.
The word 'gdos' appears on screen wherever text of a certain colour is
supposed to start and the calendar does not reflect the current date.
I've observed that 'gdos' is also to be found in memory starting at
$00000000, but only appears there after drive has been
mounted/configured. Also, when 'mount' is entered alone in the CLI
(i.e., not followed by a device name), it returns "missing or illegal
device name gdos". PD MemWatchII program catchs an attempt to write to
low memory when the binddrivers command is executed in the
startup-sequence. If binddrivers is not executed (i.e. harddrive is not
mounted), then everything works fine....except no hdrive :-( Is this a
problem with the A590 driver or NAG (I've had no such problems with other
programs....so far). And what the hell is a "gdos"?

any thoughts would be appreciated...

rp
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