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From: B A Batacharia
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 07:56

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I have an A3000, with a Watford (I know, I know) 2 Meg upgrade, and an Oak
SCSI card. So shoot me...
Until recently, all was fine, but a few days ago a few things stopped working.
Long programs stopped compiling, long files stopped loading (Abort on data
Transfer, somewhere in Module area, FileCore in use), and large RAM disks
stopped working.

It turns out that all memory works fine, except for just 16k, I think, right
at the beginning of the 2nd Meg. This is really (and I mean REALLY) annoying
me at the moment, as a program I'm writing has decided it won't fit in the
memory I've available. (I'm using the bottom Meg for stuff like fonts, sprites
and system workspace, and the top Meg-16k for working with. I have a cunningly
placed RAM disk.)

So, to the question ...
Presumably the Watford memory upgrade has 8 1Megabit RAMS. (Well, I know it 
has 8, I'm assuming the 1-bit...) How likely is it that 16k (1 page) in all of
these has gone for a walk? I'm guessing that it's far more serious, and that
somehow my MEMC's gone wrong (to put it mildly). After all, a RAM test comes
up with an 'Abort On Data Transfer'...

Any ideas, help, or words of comfort would be much appreciated ...

Bob Batachara

bab@uk.ac.ic

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