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WHDLoad suddenly broken
« on: August 17, 2010, 03:55:55 AM »
Hi there guys. So I'm having a problem with WHDLoad. The setup I am running on is as follows:

A4000D in Mirage 4000 Pro tower w/ 2MB ChipRAM
CyberStormPPC 060-50/604e-200 with 128MB FastRAM
CyberVisionPPC
256MB ZorRAM
Elbox FastATA4000 with 80GB Hard disk
2GB System hard disk and CD-RW on onboard IDE controller
Deneb USB
X-Surf 3cc using the Genesis stack
Delfina flipper on X-Surf clockport #1
OS 3.9 BB2, WarpOS 5.1, PowerUP emulation, Warp3D 4.2, CyberGraphX 4
WHDLoad 16.9 registered

WHDLoad was working fine a week ago, but now when I try to run any  WHDLoad software that preloads the system will hang at the WHDLoad intro  screen, and if I run any WHDLoad software without preload the intro  screen will disappear and the system will hang at a black screen. I am  thinking perhaps some of my SIMMs on the CyberStorm have been damaged as  we've had a heatwave here recently and I left my system on for several  hours the other day with the case open by accident. Please let me know  what I should do. Thanks so much.
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 04:09:12 AM »
I haven't noticed anything unusual except for the WHDLoad issue. I tried a memtest which gave me way too many errors to allow a system to function, so I am guessing the program was incompatible with my setup. If someone can recommend a memtest that is known good with my system, that would be a good first step I suppose.
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2010, 04:56:00 AM »
Just ran the memtest in the MemCheckBH.lha archive on AmiNet. The results look good. Since I have 128MB on the CyberStorm and 256 on the ZorRAM in addition to the 2MB chip it tests 3 segments:

08000020-0FF7FFFF (Roughly 128MB) - No Errors
40000020-4FFFFFFF (Roughly 256MB) - No Errors
00004020-001FFFFF Chip RAM - No Errors

So I suppose that the RAM is not the culprit. I guess I can try re-seating all the chips and see where that takes me.
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2010, 05:34:30 AM »
The problem was not with WHDLoad at all but rather with my FastATA it seems. Once I ran a WHDLoad program from my system drive rather than from the FastATA work drive things worked ok. It seems nothing wants to run from that drive. What could the problem be? I have the drive formatted as one 80GB partition, but I was under the understanding that FFS in OS3.9 could handle large work partitions. Do I need to patch/get a new version of FFS?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2010, 06:08:26 AM »
Ok, that explains a lot then. How do I go about installing SFS and having my drive be formatted in that instead of FFS?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2010, 06:54:05 AM »
Thanks for all your help! I really appreciate it! I sent you a PM just now as well.
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2010, 11:11:39 PM »
I've installed SFS, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. The problem seems to be that no matter how many times I change the driver type to nosplit in the FastATA prefs, the system always defaults back to split and doesn't detect that I have installed and partitioned the drive as a nosplit drive. What am I doing wrong?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2010, 11:57:56 PM »
Here's the thing though, I don't have anything set to split. There is just one drive on the Primary port and that's what I'm trying to set to nosplit. I'm using the driver versions from their webpage though because I bought the controller second hand and don't have access to the latest drivers. Could the problem be that I'm using old drivers? Otherwise, how can I fix this?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2010, 01:48:10 AM »
I suppose it may have to do with the fact that I'm using earlier drivers. Have any idea where I can get the latest ones? I'm using like 2.5 I believe and I've seen people talking about version 7.x. Where can I get this later version?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2010, 01:54:10 AM »
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Where can I get that version?
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2010, 01:57:21 AM »
Great, thanks so much.
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Re: WHDLoad suddenly broken
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2010, 01:03:53 AM »
Well I got everything working. Like I said in a previous post it wasn't a problem with Genesis or Poseidon because I found out later when I ran whdload from my system partition it ran fine. The issue was my FastATA drive kept corrupting itself no matter what I did. I finally made it work, even though the FastATAPrefs still state the drive and driver are in split mode (???). I first had to prep the drive in split mode, installing every 4 gig chunk, then restart, prep the drive in nosplit mode with one 2 gig FFS partition and one with the remainder as SFS2. Then I restarted, formatted the 2 new partitions and everything worked as it should, even though as I said the FastATA prefs are still reporting the drive and driver in split mode. It's such a shame that Elbox, one of the few remaining Amiga hardware manufacturers is so disorganized and backwards...
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