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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: NinjaCyborg on April 11, 2020, 08:44:33 PM

Title: The Register posts an Amiga hardware mystery
Post by: NinjaCyborg on April 11, 2020, 08:44:33 PM

Not ten years ago, not 30 years ago, but yesterday:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/10/on_call/

Title: Re: The Register posts an Amiga hardware mystery
Post by: NorthWay on April 11, 2020, 10:54:50 PM

I read it, but there is nothing there that you can hang onto. You'd have to break out all the debug tools to see if something was off. Possibly some kind of memory corruption that was affected or brought on by the clock.

Title: Re: The Register posts an Amiga hardware mystery
Post by: Matt_H on April 11, 2020, 11:29:52 PM

Lots of variables we’d need to track down: the particular SCSI controller, chip revisions, driver versions, which CPU card (the dreaded rev 3.0 3640?), FFS version, other expansions, mask and max transfer values in the RDB, hacks running in user-startup or WBStartup, etc.

Personally, I’m betting on it being a wonky Expansion Systems DataFlyer controller. Had one of those in my 1200–nothing but unexplainable trouble!