ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha) (05/07/88)
Is there a list of the known bugs in TOS/GEM. I am specifically interested
in those regarding hard drives.
Namely, recently, writes to my hard drive have become somewhat
unreliable. Sometimes characters get scrambled, other times the file
turns out to have a zero size.
Is this a known problem or is my hard drive sick?
If it is a known problem, is there a patch for it?
I have a 1040ST with a Supra 20Mb. I've made no modifications to
either the Atari or the Supra.
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Eric Griswold |<help! i'm caught in the middle of a .signature>| ericg@sco.comjfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams) (05/16/88)
In article <678@nod2sco> ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha) writes: > >Namely, recently, writes to my hard drive have become somewhat >unreliable. Sometimes characters get scrambled, other times the file >turns out to have a zero size. > >Is this a known problem or is my hard drive sick? > ... >I have a 1040ST with a Supra 20Mb. I've made no modifications to >either the Atari or the Supra. > I had a similar problem with my 520/1-Meg^ and Supra. I first thought it was my DMA extension cable (3 feet long), but when I hooked it up to a friend's system, it worked perfectly. (The test I used was rapid accesses to the HD by reading, displaying, and writing picture files.) The problem was a marginal DMA chip. $35 for a new one cured my problem and I haven't had any trouble since. -- James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA WORLD:jfadams@tc.fluke.COM UUCP:{ihnp4!uw-beaver,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,decvax!microsoft}!fluke!jfadams ARPA:fluke!jfadams@uw-beaver.ARPA GEnie:J.F.ADAMS CIS:74036,2517
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (05/20/88)
In article <3766@fluke.COM> jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams) writes: >The problem was a marginal DMA chip. $35 for a new one cured my problem and >I haven't had any trouble since. Hmm, mabe a new socket, a gold plated one, would have done it 8-) Atari likes to keep the price down with low quality socets, connectors, keyboards, mice, support, ... keep repairing (like I do). hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP I think, you may be right in what I think you're thinking. (Douglas Adams)