Re: My IIgs is still screwing up...

[plague@drift.winternet.com (Kent Squires)]

In <3eenv8$qk7@detroit.freenet.org> ad406@detroit.freenet.org (Avi S. Drissman) writes:


>Sigh. Me again. Unfortunately, my problems have not yet subsided.
>Even with most of my inits turned off, random corruption of files
>still happens. The problem is that crashes (I get lots of those too)
>are totally unpredictable. Whenever I can get my machine to consistently
>crash, I can usually replace the affected files from backups and
>everything works. I'm currently thinking that the random corruption
>_causes_ init conflicts, not the other way around.

>It sounds like hardware. I don't know if I trust my memory card, an
>Apricorn. However, I made it into a 2 Mb Ramdisk, and ran AW4's
>Read/Write disk test on it, and it passed. The other thing that
>I'm not sure I trust is the cache RAM on the RamFAST. 

>What I'm looking for is a freeware/shareware (not AWGS! Too much $)
>program to test memory cards and the cache RAM on the RamFAST.
>Can it be tested? In the meanwhile I have all the disk caches 
>turned off so I don't use the cache RAM. If that helps, I'll report.

What kind of hard drive do you have?