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From: afraser@ssibbs.UUCP (Alex Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: System crashes, asks for kickstart!
Summary: A2000 problem also w/ heavy RAM disk usage.
Message-ID: <49@ssibbs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 18:18:32 GMT
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Organization: Sangho's Public Access Unix, Cambridge, MA
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In article , armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes:
> discovered a strange system crash. After doing some extensive file
> copying to and from the ram: disk(pity me, still making do w/ only the
> internal drive!), the power indicator light began flashing its
> fatefull message to me. I instinctively pulled out the Workbench disk
> from my disk case and was utterly amazed when the screen showed the
> hand holding the KICKSTART 1.3 disk! I put in Kickstart which loaded
> ok and then Workbench, which also loaded fine. This scenario has
> happened several times to me since switching over to 1.3- usually when
> I do something that consumes alot of memory. (I have a 1000 w/ 512k.)

I too have had problems where everything in memory is eradicated by
a strange system crash involving heavy RAM disk usage.  Since I have
switched to 1.3 I have had many gurus and "the blue screen" during
heavy ram disk usage.  Just last night I was copying a small executable
I had just unarced from RAM: to DH0: and suddenly the screen went BLACK.
Is there something about the ram disk handler to explain this, or
should I be looking at hardware?

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