magcm_gj@levels.sait.edu.au (07/17/90)
I have two problems that I am hoping someone can help me with. The first is
a relatively minor software problem:
I have examined Matt Dillon's pipe handler code, and have written my own
AmigaDOS handler, which doesn't quite work. Now I have read that for devices
and handlers you must link them without any startup code. Given that for
Lattice C 5.01 (?) the link statement looks like
blink lib:c.o+<file>.o library lib:lc.o+lib:amiga.lib to <file>
and that the removal of any of these libraries leads to unresolved references,
just how do I link without the usual startup code?
My second problem is a much more major hardware problem. Every so often
(which means anything from once a week to five times in half an hour), my A500
crashes in the middle of whatever I am doing, seemingly without any similarities
between the occurances. Sometimes it even reboots in the middle of rebooting,
which causes my second floppy drive to repeatedly click on and off.
Now it appears that the reboot is a normal warm startup, with the only major
result that the ramb0: (card:) recoverable ram drive has a validation error.
A possibly seperate error is that even more rarely (sometimes even on a
normal cold reboot for the first time that day), while rebooting the caps lock
key repeatedly flashes on and off, and although startup-sequence is run
correctly, the CLI (my default window) refuses to accept any input, even though
intuition acts on it correctly.
Has anybody encountered this type of problem before? And if not, have you
any suggestions as to how I should check where the problem might be? I've put
up with it for a long time now, because I haven't felt able to describe the
problem precisely enough for the service people to fix, but it's driving me up
the wall!! Help, help, help!
Thanks,
Geoff Jarradpeterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (07/18/90)
In article <15185.26a2e527@levels.sait.edu.au> magcm_gj@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > My second problem is a much more major hardware problem. Every so often >(which means anything from once a week to five times in half an hour), my A500 >crashes in the middle of whatever I am doing, seemingly without any similarities >between the occurances. Sometimes it even reboots in the middle of rebooting, >which causes my second floppy drive to repeatedly click on and off. Sounds mostly like power problems. Check your power line in first place and then the power supply unit of your A500. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ rutgers!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk