Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank From: frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Possible A3000 Scram Problem Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 05:20:56 GMT References: <1991Mar19.000852.1808@medsys.uucp> <19993@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Lines: 28 In article <19993@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > >>Dave, I understand that SetRamsey is totally wrong in how it names the >>registers, but nonetheless, I can turn on everything it supports, and the >>machine still functions properly. > >Well, you have just pointed out that it doesn't function properly. But I >think what you're claiming is that you can turn on page-detect mode (what >SetRamsey calls "static column" mode), and the system works OK. You're wrong. >It may appear to work OK, but it will be using incorrect RAM timing every so >often with hard disk use. On some systems, this will cause immediate failures. >In other systems, you'll get occasional failures, which show up as an increased >rate of memory failures (which usually generate level 3 and 4 exceptions). You >may only get failures when the machine gets hot. Unless you have something >like 60ns DRAM in there, you will be overdriving your memory. > >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy > "What works for me might work for you" -Jimmy Buffett -- What's this about SetRamsey not working correctly? Am I unwittingly causing some of the infrequent GURU's I experience by using this program? Should I get off my duff and get your equivalent to it, Dave? (What's it called again? Setcpu or something like that?) -- Frank McPherson INTERNET: emcphers@fox.cs.vt.edu --