3.9 on A3000

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I`m trying to install 3.9 on my A3000.

When i make the emergency disk, it wont boot.

Seems to guru when Setpatch loads.

Replaced the setpatch with the one off WB3.1 disks. This seems to have cured the Setpatch problem.

When i try to install 3.9, it seems to only copy some of the files.  Plus i'm getting checksum errors all over the place.  Reformatting helps for a while, but they come back.

This all happens pretty randomly...  Sometimes i get a requester saying that "df0" has crashed!?!?

Please help this randomness is driving me mad!!

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Reseated the chips & ZIPs the other day but it didn't seem to make any difference.

Will the 3000 still work if I just take them all out??

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No RAM? Definitely won't work.

What I meant was, can I remove all FAST memory, leaving just CHIP ZIPs and then just buy a Zorro RAM card instead.


Would the Zorro card pereform better than the ZIPs??

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also check maxtransfer value... if you used the new partitioning software with OS 3.9 it might have changed the value to something your scsi hard drive is not happy with.

Az

Yea thats a black art.

Everyone has a different figure  

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Ah, okay. A Zorro II RAM card will be significantly slower and limited to 8MB (and less with other cards installed). A super-rare Zorro III RAM card should perform nicely, but your best bet if you're removing motherboard RAM is to get an accelerator with RAM slots.

Bugger, can't afford to go splashing out on kit anyway.  Better just make do I suppose!!

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Haven't touched the MaxTransfer values.  Tried installing/partitioning with different versions of HDToolBox but they still keep messing up after a few reboots.