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Article #32544Re: Bugs in TOS
From: Jim Adams
Date: Mon, 16 May 1988 15:05
Date: Mon, 16 May 1988 15:05
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In article <678@nod2sco> ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha) writes:
>
>Namely, recently, writes to my hard drive have become somewhat
>unreliable. Sometimes characters get scrambled, other times the file
>turns out to have a zero size.
>
>Is this a known problem or is my hard drive sick?
> ...
>I have a 1040ST with a Supra 20Mb. I've made no modifications to
>either the Atari or the Supra.
>
I had a similar problem with my 520/1-Meg^ and Supra. I first thought it was
my DMA extension cable (3 feet long), but when I hooked it up to a friend's
system, it worked perfectly. (The test I used was rapid accesses to the HD
by reading, displaying, and writing picture files.)
The problem was a marginal DMA chip. $35 for a new one cured my problem and
I haven't had any trouble since.
--
James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA
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