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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 crashes&burnes hd or RAM
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Date: 16 Mar 88 20:21:01 GMT
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In article <33463@grapevine.uucp> drh@grapevine.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) writes:
>Is it just because I can't sleep and it's 4:00 am, or
>did my last posting on this subject not make it????
>
>If anyone saw my posting about "Amiga 2000 harddisk problems"
>1-2 weeks ago please let me know.  I got no response.
>
>To briefly restate, my Amiga 2000 crashes when I do copies
>from RAM: to hd0, and from hd0: to RAM:, it takes the disk
>(hd0) with it when it does  (disk invalid, checksum errors,
>invalid key).  The Guru errors vary but 00000003.nnnn &
>00000004.nnnnn do seem to up a lot.  What I'm wondering
>is, which hardware addition (or motherboard) causes it.
>I have an 8MB ASDG memory board (which passes pumemtest),
>and a 41MB Miniscribe (I've tried two Seagate 251's &
>am on second controller).

Sounds like there may be some bad RAM on your 8 Meg board. PuMemTest
is not intended to be an all encompassing reliable memory test. It is
there to try and catch serious hard faults as they may occur during
normal operation of your machine - it will not catch many of the more
subtle failures of RAM chips. If you are indeed seeing crashes as
a result of some operation which references various parts of memory
(like a copy into a RAM-Disk), you should run the complete memory
diagnostics that came with your ASDG memory board. To do this on an
A2000, you must remove the link-jumper from the 8MI, power up and run
the the full blown diagnostics provided on your installation and extras
disk. The procedure is fully documented in your manual.

Did you populate the memory board yourself? If you have further questions,
you should call ASDG at 608-273-6585.

>D. Ryan Hawley  would be Amiga 2000 user

Eric Lavitsky
ASDG Incorporated

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