Re: GSOS File copy error: System Error ($0040). Thoughts?

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Oct 1, 4:34 pm, "William Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com>
wrote:
> "Warren Ernst" <wer...@gmail.com> wrote in message1191262611.437122.156200@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com">news:1191262611.437122.156200@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
>
> :
> : Bill,
> :
> : I did my last set of SIMM swaps to determine
> : the faulty SIMM, and then I tracked down a
> : copy of Bitbanger and let it do its thing.
> : Wouldn't you know it -- neither test shows
> : any bad RAM any more. Sigh. But good.
> : And I can now copy tons of files between
> : folders again.
> :
> : At any rate, if you could officially comment
> : on what sort of SIMMs are best (to confirm
> : David's comments, above), and if you could
> : officially state what SIMM socket is what
> : bank of RAM, that would help my troubleshoot
> : this stuff in the future. I'll probably start
> : trolling for SIMMS "just in case" once you
> : confirm the type of parts needed.
> :
> : Thanks,
> : Warr
>
> Ideally, 8 - 1M x 1 chip SIMMs work best, or
> SIMMs with 9 chips, being that parity is not
> important or necessary.
>
> IIRC, 2 and 3 chip SIMMs do not work at all.
>
> SIMM banks are from top to bottom, however,
> this could depend on which revision of the
> card you have, as I believe in the beginning,
> they went bottom to top. The very first one
> did have jumpers, but, I realized that most
> folks would simply desire a full 4MB, so I
> left them off.
>
> I have SIMMs, if you want, I can test a set
> and send them to you.
>
> William Garber
> Email Address - willy4...@garberstreet.com
> Alt. Email - willy4...@comcast.net
> Web address -http://www.garberstreet.com

Bill,

Your offer for some spare SIMMs is greatly appreciated. I'll email you
off-list for details. Thanks for the offer.

BTW I have a Rev 2 board, so I guess bank 1 is on top and bank 4 on
the bottom.

-Warr