adam@ritcsh.UUCP (Adam "WOOKIE" Stein) (04/12/89)
This is posted for a friend. Please respond to either
mohabir.henr801c@xerox.com or this newsgroup.
Has anyone seen this problem:
On an Amiga A2000 with a V4.2 motherboard (only V4.2 exhibits this problem),
if a 2 Meg expansion board is used in the system along with a 2090A auto-boot
controller and a hard drive with a FFS partition, everthing works just fine
(in this case the 2 Meg board is ASDG 2 Meg board). Now remove the 2 Meg
board and replace it with an 8 Meg board populated with any amount of memory
(2, 4, 6, or 8 Megs) and you can no longer use a FFS without crashing the
machine whenever a file is loaded from the FFS partition. I have verified
this on two different A2000 V4.2 motherboards using 2 different ProRAM2000
memory boards and 1 8UP-DIP memory board. Commodore claims that there is not
a problem with the 4.2 motherboards. All three of these memory boards work
just find on other versions of the motherboard. So does the 2090A controller.
If anyone has a V4.2 motherboard and is using a hard drive with FFS using any
other controllers and an 8 Meg memory board and everything works fine, please
let me know your configuration so we can resolve our problem.
If Dave Haynie is listening, please help me solve this problem.
Dan Mohabir
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