A lot of programs don't work, and I want to figure out why.

[commodorejohn]

My A1200 is running ClassicWB. It runs well overall, but I've been having issues with a lot of programs that just don't seem to want to run at all; they'll open, and then they'll crash and bring up the "Suspend/Reboot" dialog (most commonly with errors #80000004 and #8000000A.) I'm trying to figure out why this is; I've seen some threads on #80000004 mention memory errors, but it happens constantly with some software (MidiTracker, Camouflage, ADoom, yinyangband) and never with other, more CPU and memory-intensive software (iBrowse,) and it's always in the initial start-up - these programs never get so far as to even open a window - so I doubt that. Is there a good trace tool I can use to at least get an idea of where the problem is?

[commodorejohn]

No, I don't really have a spare at the moment, and I'd much rather not kill all that time on a fresh install if I can figure out the problem on my existing setup.

[commodorejohn]

Okay, loading MIDITracker from floppy resolved it, so I'm going to hazard a guess that the max-transfer theory was correct. Any idea what I should set it to? Does it depend on the device? (It's a CF-to-IDE adapter.)

[commodorejohn]

That's really weird, because there's plenty of stuff I've written to it that's been just fine. :/

[commodorejohn]

The only time UAE touched this thing is during the initial install by the guy I got it from. Everything since then's been transferred on floppy or CF, or downloaded from Aminet. I really don't get why, if it affects large file transfers, iBrowse and some other large files haven't been a problem...?

[commodorejohn]

Okay, interesting. I discovered that my larger general-storage partition had been created with a Max Transfer of 0xFFFFFF, which I remember doing because the previous owner thought it might improve the speed from a CF card, but he wasn't sure - guess I should've researched it a little further! I never touched the system partition, so that had the Max Transfer set correctly, which explains why a lot of software wasn't having problems.

Happily, setting the Max Transfer correctly on the storage partition seems to have resolved the issue, and the software in question loads without error, so it looks as if I won't have to do a total wipe + reinstall