Re: MicroDrive Re-Do-Do

["Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>]

I will try that. I have a new CF card on the way as well so I can play
"process of elimination", hopefully I will learn something. I my RAM
card and CF/MicroDrive a couple of years ago so maybe something just
met its MTBF...

Thanks for the thought.




On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:41:01 -0700, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

>Steve ][ wrote:
>> The system does pass the "cold boot" ROM test
>> (Control-OpenApple-ClosedApple-Reset) on my ROM3 machine.
>> 
>> I have a 4meg card from GSE-Reactive, a MicroDrive, and a VOC in the
>> machine, that's it.
>
>Try running for a while without the memory card (ouch!) and see
>if your disk integrity problems improve...
>
>GSOS "caches" disk file structures in memory, and while they are
>there, they are vulnerable to anything that could change the contents
>of memory.  Once a corrupted block is written to disk, the problem
>is "permanent" and any subsequent damage is cumulative.
>
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:07:07 -0700, "Michael J. Mahon"
>> <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Steve ][ wrote:
>>>
>>>>And the frustration continues. Booting into GS/OS 6.0.1, copying
>>>>around a lot of files, selecint "Quit" from the Finder immediately
>>>>crashes to
>>>>
>>>>Unable to load/unload
>>>>    Type = 8003
>>>>    ID = 0004FF04
>>>>    ERR1E06
>>>>
>>>>This is making my teeth hurt.
>>>
>>>I think you have a problem different from the MicroDrive and
>>>the contents of the flash card.
>>>
>>>Does your system pass diagnostics, like a memory test?
>>>
>>>Are your problems "cumulative", suggesting progressive disk
>>>corruption, or are files OK one day that "caused problems"
>>>the day before?
>
>-michael
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