Re: ZipFTA

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) writes...

>Martin Gruen (mgruen@chaos.dfwmm.net) wrote:
>: I downloaded SuperZip the FTA CDA (2 files of it was available) from the
>: grind.  Neither would work on my system (in fact GSOS gave an error and
>: crashed during startup).
> 
>Works for me, but I can't remember where I downloaded it from.  It 
>shouldn't crash at startup.  I've heard that it will crash if you try to 
>run it while in P8.
> 
>Do you have an otherwise stable Zip?  What speed/how much cache?  I think 
>a flakey performace by this CDA might indicate a flakey Zip.

    I'm not sure I would totally agree, although I did experience
routine crashes into Monitor (or freeze ups) when I tried to access
the SuperZip CDA on my system. This was _when_ I had my ZipGS running
with 64K of cache active (which proves to be unstable), but switching 
it down to 32K cache fixed things. I no longer have problems selecting 
FTA's CDA in this configuration (15/32). The problem seems to be either 
flakey SRAMs or overheating, but this is another story.

    GS/OS crashing or giving an error during startup would seem to
indicate the CDA file is corrupted. Or perhaps, an older version
of the FTA CDA (was there one?) that is incompatible with System
6.0 and 6.0.1.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca