carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) (04/03/89)
Grr... My A2620 finally arrived. I carefully unpacked this masterpiece of technology, lovingly searching the board for obvious flaws and finding none. I gently turned the power off on my 2000, andd opened its pristine lid. There the CPU slot lay, awaiting fulfillment... Well, I plugged the beastie in, and booted up (after restoring power). For my troubles, my disk crashed. I was not amused. I spent all weekend, and get nowhere. Billions of Gurus, and even more "Disk Util: has a READ/WRITE error" And more. It wasn't pretty. I tried it w/wo the 2620. Problems *always* started when the 2620 was in, and booting. But the remained when the card was out. 3 out of my 4 partitions were eventually toasted. And reformatted. And toasted again. Truthfully, I doubt the 2620 caused the crashes. Could have been flaky software, that made everything think it had crashed. I dunno. I refuse to part with my 2620. Are there any definitive software tests available via ftp/email? Like, testing the memory, CPU, FPU, MMU? I still have a *few* programs on floppy, and am running them to see if they work. So far, they seem to. My setup: a2000 (bought in November '88) a2090a a2620 Rodime SCSI