Re: One for the Experts

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Paul H Bauer (pbauer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) wrote:
[...]
: I had no Ram disk. This is on a Rom 3 GS with 6.250 meg ram. I proceded to 
: reset the Ram disk to 2.016 meg with the remainder for the system and then
: rebooted and got a message that my boot vol on my hard drive was DAMAGED!!!
: Needless to say this was disturbing as the same message appeared on going
: to a backup hard drive.

: 	After much hair pulling and moaning I resized the Ram disk to 2.08 meg
: and then the system worked fine. It appears if there is more than 4 meg of ram
: for the system one can get some strange errors.

Do you have a RamFAST and accelerator?  Either ZipGS or TWGS.  If you do
have a RamFAST, try setting the TWGS option on (even if you have a Zip) and
see if the problem goes away.

I have this problem with on my ROM 01 with RamFAST even though I have a 
Zip GS.  Kinda weird.  It could be a DMA problem or you have slow PALs on
your RamFAST.

Joseph
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