RF vs. ZIP & other questions

[yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Yoshi)]

	Well folks, i've narrowed down the problem with my RF and my ZIP.
	
	For those who don't know what i'm talking about, the situation is
	pretty intruiging: My RF won't function if I have the RF's DMA
	turned on. Symptoms are easily noticeable: crashing (into the mon
	itor), lock-ups, and other nasty things.

	Basically, I tested out all of my cards on another IIGS to see
	if the same thing happened; and they did. So, I know it's not my
	GS's motherboard. :-)

	I ended up trying something interesting: I turned the speed setting
	on Slot 7 (where my RF is) on the ZIP to "Normal" (it's on "Fast"
	usually), turned DMA on, and voila: It worked, but it's about as
	slow as an Apple Hi-Speed, so I went back to turning DMA off and
	the setting back to "Fast."
	
	I tried other slots; Slot 6 and even Slot 4. Same thing happens
	with the settings.

	Anyone out there know what might be causing this? I'm trying to
	figure out if it's the RF or the ZIP, because i'd like to replace
	item which doesn't agree with the other.
--
	Second, I had an interesting encounter with my RF (or maybe it's
	the ZIP; who knows what did what) when I was doing backups the
	other night.

	I proceeded to copy about 30 files from my /Exodus/MODs directory
	to my new /MODs partition. The files copied, but when I played
	them, they sounded terrible. I took a look at the samples inside
	the MODs and the patterns; everything was jumbled. Samples had
	blank spots or "static-like" spots in them, and the patterns had
	garbage data where the notes/inst/effect should be.

	Anyone else have such an encounter? I'm just wondering because my
	hardware is really beginning to piss me off. :-)

--
|       Jeremy 'Yoshi' Chadwick        |  ______  ___   ___   ___  ______  |
|         yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU          | |:     \|   | |:  | |:  |/      | |
|        CSOS IRC Administration       | |           | |   | |           | |
| Collective Systems Software Engineer | |___|\______| |___| |______/|___| |
|    "You will not understand... this is not how I am..." -- Pink Floyd    |
|   "...I still recall the taste, of your tears..." --- Trent Reznor/NIN   |