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From: ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Crashing all the way to Kickstart
Message-ID: <7108@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 11 Feb 89 08:56:11 GMT
References: <2215@van-bc.UUCP> <716@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <716@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>	I was the original poster of this problem.  Larry, your explanation
>make sense... but why would the Amiga crash all the way to Kickstart
>only *sometimes*?  With a corrupted Kickstart disk, I would think that every
>crash would go back to Kickstart.

Just a thought, but you don't, by any chance, have a Dallas Semiconductor
SmartWatch clock chip in your Amiga, do you?  These required a boot-rom
swap to work, and disabled the write-protect on the Kickstart Ram.  Or 
perhaps the write-protect on your Kickstart Ram has, for some other reason,
failed to work...or maybe you just have a marginal chip in the KickStart
RAM.

Has anybody ever come up with a RAM checkout program for the KickStart RAM,
by the way?  I assume it would have to run from the KickStart prompt, since
you'd have to get in before the RAM was write-protected...of course, you could
always read each RAM word, NOT it, then try to write it to the word and check
to see if the word had changed...

Lance
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| Lance T Franklin        | | I never said that! It must be some kind of a  |
| ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US | | forgery...I gotta change that password again. |
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