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From: Terry Coatta
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1989 07:09

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I have a problem.  Whilst trying to download the Moebius animation from
my Unix system to my Amiga I received a "Disk Error" requester.  I tossed
the disk, and tried another... same thing.  I tried a different drive
(both different drives in fact), and several disks.  Always the same
problem (although at different stages of the download generally after
having received from 5 to 60K of the file).  The disks were truly
corrupted (that is, the system rejected them as unreadable if a reinserted
them after the download failure).  I have tried to generated such errors
simply be copying files back and forth and have been unable to do so.
I have, however, had som bizarre video glithching during the warm boot
process, and occasionally have seen some trashed icon imagery.  My guess
is some slightly flaky chip RAM.  Does this seem sensible?  Any memory
testing programs out there that I could use to verify this?  Any other
suggestions?

Terry Coatta
Dept. of Computer Science, UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada
coatta@grads.cs.ubc.cdn

`What I lack in intelligence, I more than compensate for with stupidity'

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Subject: Amiga Failure
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