drh@grapevine.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) (03/09/88)
Is it just because I can't sleep and it's 4:00 am, or did my last posting on this subject not make it???? If anyone saw my posting about "Amiga 2000 harddisk problems" 1-2 weeks ago please let me know. I got no response. To briefly restate, my Amiga 2000 crashes when I do copies from RAM: to hd0, and from hd0: to RAM:, it takes the disk (hd0) with it when it does (disk invalid, checksum errors, invalid key). The Guru errors vary but 00000003.nnnn & 00000004.nnnnn do seem to up a lot. What I'm wondering is, which hardware addition (or motherboard) causes it. I have an 8MB ASDG memory board (which passes pumemtest), and a 41MB Miniscribe (I've tried two Seagate 251's & am on second controller). My computer is in the shop (Computer Biz), and they are out of stock, on Amiga 2000's. Is there someone from Commodore that KNOWS what to do about this problem? Is it possible to take my 2000 to Commodore and trade it for another (I bought it less than 90 days ago), or is waiting for Computer Biz to get them in stock just as fast? I'm wonder about the people at Computer Biz, what with their "no refund" policy, and they Would Not give me a replacement for my 1084 moniter, which makes a small sound, and flickers in one small spot every so often. Direct responses appreciated, D. Ryan Hawley would be Amiga 2000 user
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (03/10/88)
In article <33463@grapevine.uucp> drh@grapevine.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) writes: >To briefly restate, my Amiga 2000 crashes when I do copies >from RAM: to hd0, and from hd0: to RAM:, it takes the disk >(hd0) with it when it does (disk invalid, checksum errors, >invalid key). The Guru errors vary but 00000003.nnnn & >00000004.nnnnn do seem to up a lot. What I'm wondering >is, which hardware addition (or motherboard) causes it. >I have an 8MB ASDG memory board (which passes pumemtest), As I responded to a similar message fron a guy with a Microbotics memory expansion, errors of type 00000003.xxxx and 00000004.xxxx usually result from BAD memory chips. Do you have the same errors WITHOUT the ASDG board? Do you have a program to check out the 1Meg on the motherboard (I though one such program was posted to comp.sys.amiga a while ago)? -- Marco
zofka@cernvax.UUCP (zofka) (03/11/88)
In article <33463@grapevine.uucp> drh@grapevine.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) writes: >Is it just because I can't sleep and it's 4:00 am, or >did my last posting on this subject not make it???? > >If anyone saw my posting about "Amiga 2000 harddisk problems" >1-2 weeks ago please let me know. I got no response. > I have also some problems with my a2000 with 3.5 meg of mem and a2090 Did you see my article on comp.sys.amiga.tech ??? Seems to be an arbitration problem with the cpu slot with old a2000 (I have ser. number 202!) But nonody wants to help me (Oh yes, commodore wants to change my mainboard for 300 $ !!) Milan ZOFKA
eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky) (03/17/88)
In article <33463@grapevine.uucp> drh@grapevine.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) writes: >Is it just because I can't sleep and it's 4:00 am, or >did my last posting on this subject not make it???? > >If anyone saw my posting about "Amiga 2000 harddisk problems" >1-2 weeks ago please let me know. I got no response. > >To briefly restate, my Amiga 2000 crashes when I do copies >from RAM: to hd0, and from hd0: to RAM:, it takes the disk >(hd0) with it when it does (disk invalid, checksum errors, >invalid key). The Guru errors vary but 00000003.nnnn & >00000004.nnnnn do seem to up a lot. What I'm wondering >is, which hardware addition (or motherboard) causes it. >I have an 8MB ASDG memory board (which passes pumemtest), >and a 41MB Miniscribe (I've tried two Seagate 251's & >am on second controller). Sounds like there may be some bad RAM on your 8 Meg board. PuMemTest is not intended to be an all encompassing reliable memory test. It is there to try and catch serious hard faults as they may occur during normal operation of your machine - it will not catch many of the more subtle failures of RAM chips. If you are indeed seeing crashes as a result of some operation which references various parts of memory (like a copy into a RAM-Disk), you should run the complete memory diagnostics that came with your ASDG memory board. To do this on an A2000, you must remove the link-jumper from the 8MI, power up and run the the full blown diagnostics provided on your installation and extras disk. The procedure is fully documented in your manual. Did you populate the memory board yourself? If you have further questions, you should call ASDG at 608-273-6585. >D. Ryan Hawley would be Amiga 2000 user Eric Lavitsky ASDG Incorporated ARPA: eric@topaz.rutgers.edu "Lithium is no longer available UUCP: ...{wherever!}ulysses!eric on credit..." ...{wherever!}rutgers!topaz!eric - from Buckaroo Banzai SNAIL: 34 Maplehurst Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854