rgg@uluru11.ecr.mu.oz (Rupert Graham GOLDIE) (09/06/89)
I have been using my 1040 (1986 vintage) with a SH205 hard disk and gulam (1.00) with Lattice C 3.04 for a while now, and about a week ago I started getting strange errors. First the compiler would start complaining about a program in the second phase, with CXERR 28 and other CXERRs as well sometimes. BUT this was with programs which I had compiled successfully before. Then it got worse. Make would bomb out after only printing one character on the screen, then using the compiler I would get 2, 3 or even 4 bombs while it was compiling (and it would keep merrily compiling). I tried it without gulam and still got the same problems. I tried compiling with all the source files in a ram disk and it did work one time, but the next time it only worked for about 3 or so files and then it started bombing again. I thought I might have a virus, but vdu and viruskill didn't think so. I reformatted the hard disk but still no luck. The only time I can get the compiler to work is from a ramdisk using floppies instead of the harddisk. Most other programs work, while I am using the hard disk,except that sometimes I get a TOS error #35 when trying to run something. I only have trouble when I'm using the hard disk, but reformatting the hard disk didn't help. Does anyone have any idea what it could be ??? I'm going crazy not being able to use the hard disk for programming. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Rupert G. Goldie rgg@uluru.ecr.mu.oz.au
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (09/08/89)
In article <2037@munnari.oz.au> rgg@uluru11.ecr.mu.oz (Rupert Graham GOLDIE) writes: > I have been using my 1040 (1986 vintage) with a SH205 hard disk and [...] >hard disk but still no luck. The only time I can get the compiler to work is >from a ramdisk using floppies instead of the harddisk. Sounds like a "lonely" DMA chip to me: the chip does not have the right contact to its socket. Maybe the cheap socket, Atari used, is getting old. It's fixed easily: open Your computer (should not be too hard... the thick one is the right end of the screwdriver :-), locate the DMA chip (40 pin, 600 mil package, in socket, close to the harddisk connector and floppy controller), pull it out (a Swiss army pocket knife blade is just under 600 mils wide; works perfectly; long live Mac Gyver!) and put it back in. If the problem persists, get a gold plated "precision" socket (the expensive type) and plug it between the chip and the original socket: the gold plated pins of the socet are more wide than IC pins and therefore issue more pressure to the old socket; gives better contact. If the problem still persists, pull out MCU and GLUE (the 68 pin PLCC chips) and push them back. There sockets can also cause trouble. (If the problem still is there: call Your dealer or wait for a cheap used ST show up; they already do here; a lot of STe's are beeing ordered...) I had similiar trouble and solved it by replacing all cheap sockets. My (much hacked) 1985 520ST+ still works perfectly... hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP Dennis had stepped up into the top seat whet its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. (Douglas Adams; the long dark teatime...)