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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos 1.3 vs DHn:
Message-ID: <562@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 07:17:01 GMT
References: <88295@sun.uucp>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <88295@sun.uucp>, by drh@sun.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley):
> The problem then was the ASDG 8 MB memory board.  It had to be
> removed during the low level format.  Could this be part of the
> problem?  It is somewhat intermittent.  It seems that there is

     Check your memory.  Defective expansion RAM can cause intermittent
problems of all kinds.  The system will tolerate it until some system list
is written to the bad address.  When it tries to read the bad address it's
all over.

     I was getting system crashes quite often because of defective memory.
I worked up a software fix that seems to work.  It patches the system's
memory free list so it will think the bad addresses have already been
allocated.  At any rate, you need to run a memory diagnostic to see if that
could be your problem.

--Fabbian Dufoe
  350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South
  St. Petersburg, Florida  33705
  813-823-2350

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