cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) (01/10/91)
System: Amiga 3000 expanded to 4 megs with 256x4 ZIP drams. 1 External disk drive. Internal 40 meg hard drive and of course the 1 internal disk drive. 1 modem and 1 printer hooked up. Problem: I am getting text file corrution. Every once in a while I will find that a text file has binary garbage tacked onto it. This seems to occur to files that have been written to. I have mostly noticed this with files I have edited using ED. What could be causing this? I run virusx4.01 constantly. I notice no other problems. Could it be a memory chip going bad? What is a good memory tester that will test the Amiga 3000's memory? What other problems could this be? Has anyone else had these symptoms? This does not occur often, but it does occur often enough to be annoying. The other day a text file that contained the file directory for files on my BBS was mangled, resulting in a software failure. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=That is not dead which may eternal lie-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Christoper Roth * "Machines have no * InterNet : cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu * Conscience..." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Yet with strange eons even death may die-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (01/16/91)
In article <26226@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >System: Amiga 3000 expanded to 4 megs with 256x4 ZIP drams. 1 >External disk drive. Internal 40 meg hard drive and of course the 1 internal >disk drive. 1 modem and 1 printer hooked up. >Problem: I am getting text file corrution. Every once in a while I >will find that a text file has binary garbage tacked onto it. This seems >to occur to files that have been written to. I have mostly noticed >this with files I have edited using ED. What could be causing this? Assuming you aren't using some alien setup, there's nothing hardware related that could cause that. Even if you had incorrectly installed your extra memory, any failures are far more likely to show up as program crashes than disk failures (programs tend to crash with exceptions 3 and 4 when you have flakey memory). The frequency of your failure doesn't sound like any ordinary computer failure. Most problems are constant or growing, not the kind of things that show up and then disappear. Unless you're doing something to bring them on. I could certainly believe a problem in the filesystem itself (which version of the OS are you using), or the ED program. But again, program bugs may not be hit every time you use a particular program, but they do generally act in a consistent manner. I use 2.0x and a 3000 all the time and have never run into this. I'm using the very latest 2.0x at the moment, which you probably don't have. And I have never used ED. My guess is that, again assuming you haven't drastically altered the default A3000 system setup (no PD background programs, unsupported A3000 register hacks, etc.), you are running into a bug in the filesystem, ED, or perhaps some strange interaction between the two. If there is any consistent way to make it happen that can be easily summed up, feel free to send a report of your problem to the official "bugs" account here on cbmvax. They'll want your Kickstart and Workbench version/revision numbers, hardware info, and a list of steps that cause the failure. >* Christoper Roth * "Machines have no -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "Don't worry, 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, gonna be alright" -Bob Marley
jdutka@wpi.WPI.EDU (John Dutka) (01/17/91)
In article <17625@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >Assuming you aren't using some alien setup, there's nothing hardware related >that could cause that. Even if you had incorrectly installed your extra >memory, any failures are far more likely to show up as program crashes than On a totally (almost) different note - is there any known problem with the Disk-Validator in 2.02? It doesn't seem to be doing it's job too well on my 3000-25 - validations seem to work much better on my 2000HD... -- | husc6!m2c!wpi!jdutka | "Hey, baby - wanna do some HEAT TRANSFER? | | jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu | Heh, heh, heh!" | | John Dutka, Jr. | -Mechanical Engineers On The Prowl |