[comp.sys.amiga] A500 Crashes

farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) (12/03/90)

I have been getting *alot* of crashes on my Amiga 500 system, and as far
as I can figure out, it is because of the driver software for my hard drive
or the system software or a combination.  I keep getting Gurus, usually
an address error or illegal instruction, but almost always in the
AmigaShell process.  The strange thing is, is that the address in the
Guru message is the _base_ address of the AmigaShell process.

I am using an Amiga 500 with A590, a Supra 500XP hd (40mb) with 2Mb of
RAM onboard (for a total of 3Mb of RAM).  I do not have any "extras" in
my system (such as a screen blanker), and I just completely re-installed
the latest system software (1.3.2).

Anyone having similar problems?  It is extremely annoying having the
machine crash anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes into using it.

-Cary
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