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From: jlavin@cie.uoregon.edu (Jeff Lavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Text File Corruption
Keywords: Amiga 3000 memory corruption
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.085758.28432@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 08:57:58 GMT
References: <26239@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
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In article <26239@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>
>Hi...
>
>I own an Amiga 3000, 25mhz, 40 meg hard drive, 1 internal drive, 1 external
>drive, modem, printer.  
>
>Every once in a while I will find that a text file gets corrupted.  It
>appears to have binary garbage dumped in it.
>
>I run VirusX 4.01 and StarBlanker all the time.
>
>This only seems to happen to files that have been written to.  It has happened
>mostly with files altered by ED.
>
>What could be causing this?  A new virus?  Anyone else have these symptoms?
>
>This doesn't happen very often. Just once in a while.  It IS annoying however.
>Could my Harddrive have a bad spot on it?  How can I test this?
>
>
>--
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=That is not dead which may eternal lie-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>*     Christoper Roth                         *  "Machines have no 
>*     InterNet  :  cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu      *   Conscience..."
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Yet with strange eons even death may die-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Since I received my 3000 about 6 months ago, I have experienced the same
problem.  My 3000 is an absolutely stock A3000-25/100 with 4 megs of SCRAM
added.  It will go along fine for a long time (weeks to months) with no
problem.  Then I will be editing a source file, and when I assemble it,
will get many error message.  A look at the file will show a lot of garbage
interspersed between good text.  This will go on for maybe an hour and then
won't show up again for a long time.
 
Dave Hanie, are you listening?

Jeff-

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