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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Ral-Clan on February 26, 2007, 05:03:25 PM

Title: Amidock causes Ramlib errors: why?
Post by: Ral-Clan on February 26, 2007, 05:03:25 PM

Hi, upon setting up OS3.9 on an Amiga 3000/040/32MB-RAM this weekend I encountered the problem with AMIDOCK causing a RAMLIB error upon bootup.

This seems to be a common problem with OS3.9 (judging by a Google search).

I found a solution on usenet which worked:

Quote

I look in HDToolBox and saw that the MaxTransfer value was set to
0xffffffff; after setting it to conservative 0x1f00 everything run fine...

...the above is quoted from a Usenet post.  I guess it's a trade-off because it slows down the SCSI access a bit, but I'm glad it works.

But, I'm just wondering: WHY does this work?  What was Amidock doing that caused the RAMLIB problem?  Even though I have it fixed, I would still like to understand the foundation of this problem.

PS: On my Amiga 2000/040/32MB-RAM I didn't get this error.  It has an A2091 SCSI controller with GURU-ROM, though.