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>
>	I'd like to thank you for posting that program because it uncovered
>some flakey hardware in my system.  When I recompiled it to use my
>'020/'881, it started going bonkers.
>
>	Which brings me to the reason I ported this over to c.s.a.t:  I'd
>like to bounce off you people what I think is wrong with my setup.  I have
>an ASDG Mr. C with 2M of RAM in it, and a Ronin Hurricane card 14.foo MHz
>'020, 16 MHz '881.
>
>	When the ASDG cage is disconnected, everything runs great;
>'Hopalong', as well as all other programs, run without incident.  When I
>plug in the cage, vanilla programs run fine.  However, programs utilizing
>the '881 are prone to random crashes, typically exception code 4 (illegal
>instruction), 11 (line F emulator), and to a lesser extent 10 (line A
>emulator), as well as one instance of 14 (format error).  Precisely when
>these crashes occur is random.

Sorry to hear you are having random problems, but you had better luck
than I did.  Months ago I bought a Ronin board to put in my 1000 with
a Mini-Rack C and a two meg card.  I tried and tried and tried and could
never even get the d*mn thing to boot.

I contacted Ronin, and they pointed fingers at ASDG.  I called ASDG and
they pointed fingers at Ronin.  I took the entire setup to Ronin twice,
and they could never tell me what was wrong, and in the process they
lost my keyboard and cord, and my power cord.  They also busted the
power connector on the back of my mini-rack.  I was not impressed with
their engineering or the care that they used with my computer.  Although
I try to give them credit for trying to look at the problem, I was not
at all impressed, and will never buy anything from Ronin again (s/w or
hardware).

I installed the ground fix and the CSA PALs, as I'm sure Leo did.  No
luck.  So I choose two megs of RAM over the '020/881 :-(.  I do recommend
putting an insulator between the Ronin board and the daughterboard.  The
boards hang too close together for my taste.

If you every figure out what is wrong with your setup Leo, I'd be very
interested in finding out.

                                                     kev
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