paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (03/17/88)
A couple of days ago I started getting read/write errors while using VD0:. Also, occasionally the machine was giving me a Guru while writing to the RAM: disk. This has been happening the last couple of days to my 2000 at work after the machine had been on for about 6 hours. Both times when I cold started the machine I kept getting a system requester with the following message "Error validating disk. Key 2048 checksum error". The disk in question was my workbench disk and I know the disk was fine because I reused the following morning on the same machine and it worked fine, until the afternoon when the same things started happening. So I thought right away that my two-week-old Commodore 2Meg memory expansion board was the culprit. So how do I go about verifying my suspicion since Commodore does not supply a utility to check the board! I repeat (for CATS people) that Commodore does not provide a utility to check their board. As far as I know they are the only manufacturers of memory expansion that do not provide such a utility. Anyway, since I also bought a Micron Technology board for my machine at home, and since they provided me with such a utility, I decided to use it to test Commodore's board. Alas, it seem that they check that it is their board that I was testing, so it wouldn't work with Commodore's board. Next I tried using a PD utility to do the same, but the program kept hanging so I could not use it. Finally it dawned on me that a long time ago I had bought a Pacific Cypress memory board for my other Amy (1000) at home, and they also gave me a utility to check the board ( are you noting this Commodore? ). So I finally used it on my A2000 at work, and it finally worked. That is, it confirmed my suspicion that the board was bad. The bottom line is this. The board is under warranty so I'll get it repaired or replaced. However, I should not have had to go through all this. Commodore should provide means for checking that their boards operate as advertised. Had I been a fresh Amiga user with no access to the resources that I have, I would have certainly been very confused, and very upset with Commodore. The point is that a customer should be able to verify if the board works, and not cart his Amiga to his dealer with his suspicions anytime he starts getting read/write memory errors. -+= SAM =+- C C C repaired or replaced. replaced