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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68020 BindDrivers gurus
Message-ID: <6102@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 17:35:19 GMT
References: <310@philce.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <310@philce.UUCP>, joostv@philce.UUCP (Joost Vroonhoven) says:
> Keywords: A2000 BindDrivers 68020

> When booting my A2000 it executes BindDrivers (PC card drive light lights),
> so it seems BindDrivers is finished,
> and then a "Software Error, Task Held".

Hmmmm...  The only thing that comes to mind sounds very much like a problem
I had a while back.  Every so often, for some reason unexplainable for some
time, my A2620-equipped system would guru on startup.  It was a tough one to
track down, because it wasn't frequent enough to just start removing hardware
or software influences unless I wanted to be without them for an extended 
period of time.  I eventually tracked it down to the Bridge Card software.
Since I've been beta testing the Janus V2.0 software, this mysterious guru
as completely disappeared.  Before changing the Janus software, I had pretty
much tracked it down to something occuring at or around Binddrivers (I was
doing two Binddrivers passes, binding in my hard disk first, followed later
by the Bridge Card).

> During the last week I read postings of three other people who had similar
> problems with their A2500, so maybe BindDrivers doesn't always know
> what to do when running on a 68020 ??

I figured it was a synchronization problem with the Bridge Card; running the
software 4x faster made a bad situation come up more often.  As it was
already fixed by Janus V2.0, I didn't worry much about it after that.  The
Binddrivers program can cause any number of device drivers to get loaded
("bound") for their corresponding PICs.  So you have more hardware and
software interactions going on here than perhaps any other single time.

> Who of the Amiga Wizards can tell us more on this ??

I haven't seen anything like this happen except for an A2088 Bridge Card
with the original Janus library.  I'd consider that a known problem that's
already been addressed.  Any other interactions warrent some investigation.

> (PS. If I get interesting E-Mail I'll summarize)

> Joost.

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