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From: balzer@frambo.dec.com (<CB> aka Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HardFrame problems
Keywords: Microbotics, Freeze, ASDG, 8MI
Message-ID: <2868@shlump.dec.com>
Date: 9 Jun 89 14:33:59 GMT
Sender: news@shlump.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hi y'all,

A friend of mine has problems with his Microbotics HardFrame, first some
basics:
He has a rev. 4 B-board. 
No, he has a TI and no Signetics bus driver chip.
He has a 1.2 KS ROM and an obese Agnus (1MB) installed.
In addition to his HardFrame (HF) he has an ASDG 8MI board populated with
2MB installed.
The HD attached to his HF is a Rodime 3085S.

Now for his problems:

He get's frequent Gurus and system freezes w/ his setup, the gurus go
away and the freezes get seldom when he removes the 8MI.
If the machine freezes w/o the 8MI, the HD LED is off, but the HF Led 
flickers.
The Gurus happen mostly on writes to the HD.
The HF get's rather warm (hot?).

This is his second HF, the older revision he had before was much more stable.
He would also like to know what the 2 new jumpers on the new HF are for.

Another point of grief for him is the MPark behavior:
If you invoke it, the HD won't restart on itself when it's accessed the next
time. If you invoke it a second time = Guru time.
The only way to get the drive back is a reset-binddrivers cycle.

Muchos thanks in advance for any help,

-	<CB>
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