...hmm, maybe that maxxed-out MaxTransfer wasn't such a great idea; all of a sudden I can't start my Amiga, it gives a Software Failure.
:lol: Nope. Surely not a great idea. ;-) Supposedly, some 2.5" hard drives can get away with the 0xFFFFFFFF setting. None I've ever owned could, though. It presents all sorts of strange and bizarre behavior. With the value mis-set, what happens is there is a chance that any file over a certain size will contain some corruption caused by a buffer mis-allocation.
I got my first A1200 back before the bug was widely known, and I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my workbench installs kept going bad. Finally, I ran a deep file comparison of the contents of each file copied to my hard drive against each file on my install floppies. With those results, I took the machine back to my C= dealer, at which point he showed me a bulletin that had arrived a few days earlier... I was relieved (that my, then scarce, brand new A1200 was ok) and pissed (that I wasted so much time) at the same time. :lol:
