rcbalc@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Luc Cluitmans) (10/22/90)
Hi Netlanders,
I'm having some weird problems with my Mac plus. When I use multifinder
and I insert a floppy after I ran a program (any program does, but the
error doesn't occur immediately after startup) I get an error (falling
into MacsBug).
System information: Mac plus with 4 M RAM, Cutting Edge Harddisk 60M,
tried it using system 6.0.3, 6.0.4 and 6.0.5, tried it without any
INIT's (Normally I use SAM intercept, ATM 2.0, Typealign, SuitcaseII
DFaultD, SFInit, On Que and Afterdark). I don't know the exact ROM
version of my Mac but I bought it in December 1989. Of course I ran
the most recent Virusdetectors on my system (using singlefinder) and
they told me there aren't any virusses in my system.
The problems disappears when using singlefinder. As far as I remember
it started after connecting the harddisk to my Mac. Yesterday I
reformatted my HD with unimac's storware. There was a difference:
There was now a adress error in high RAM (or was it ROM ?; I forgot the
exact adress.) instead of
the illegal instruction error in low RAM I got when I used the
original Cutting Edge format. B.t.w.: I know that low adress belonged
to the driver of the SCSI harddisk, because some bytes near the address
where the error occurred contained the text "HDDriver 2.0", ergo
the CE driver software.
Has anybody in netland had some similar experiences, or does anybody
know what can be the problem?
thanks in advance,
Luc.
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(Signature under construction... Be patient.)wching@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (William Ching) (10/25/90)
I've had the exact same problem. Running System 6.0.5 on a Mac Plus with 4 meg RAM and Multifinder 6.1b9 - inserting a floppy bombs the system irreversibly - an Illegal Instruction error comes up and nothing I do besides RB from MacsBuf will recover (i.e. invoking the _Shutdown trap). Problem disappears usually under uniFinder, even with no inits. I find that the problem crops up after some serial port access (i.e. communications program). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ching INET: wching@gnh-applesauce.cts.com UUCP: crash!pnet01!gnh-applesauce!wching ARPA: crash!pnet01!gnh-applesauce!wching@nosc.mil "To the insane the sane must seem insane"
rcbalc@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Luc Cluitmans) (10/30/90)
In article <168@rc6.urc.tue.nl>, rcbalc@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Luc Cluitmans) writes: > I'm having some weird problems with my Mac plus. When I use multifinder > and I insert a floppy after I ran a program (any program does, but the > error doesn't occur immediately after startup) I get an error (falling > into MacsBug). I solved the problem. It appeared that one of the Suitcase II advanced options caused the crashes. Changing the maximum number of open files in the bootblocks of your system to the maximum (in Suitcase) of 99 caused crashes and changing it back to 42 solved the problem. Note that removing Suitcase II from the system folder (disabling it) won't solve the problem, because the origin of the crashes was still available in the bootblocks. I hope this information can help people having similar problems. Greetings, Luc. -- ............................................................................ Luc Cluitmans rcbalc@urc.tue.nl Don't Worry, Be happy! (Signature under construction... Be patient.)