Falcon SCSI write issues

[exxos]

That's why I requested help in writing a test program which would verify that kinda thing..

But thing is as well.. Nobody noticed the half hour timeout either.. That's a odd thing by itself..

I'll have to take my other falcon apart and try a 14mb card in that to see if a second falcon has the same issues..

[exxos]

Quickly connected up my original Falcon and put the 14 megabyte memory card in and this acts the exact same way

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and yes I really need to service this Falcon at some point. :lol: :lol: :roll:

[exxos]

Ooooo guess what I just found..

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[exxos]

Same problem. Looks the the ezdrive was stuck on write for a while.. I went for a a shower and came back to a error... This was with HD12.53... 12.71 copied files until it filled up the disk.

So I think that rules out SCSI drive issues.

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[kohli79]

Same problem. Looks the the ezdrive was stuck on write for a while.. I went for a a shower and came back to a error... This was with HD12.53... 12.71 copied files until it filled up the disk.

So I think that rules out SCSI drive issues.


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Was the program "ALTRAMFX.PRG" included in the Auto folder in version 12.53?

[exxos]

Was the program "ALTRAMFX.PRG" included in the Auto folder in version 12.53?

I didn't use it if that's what your asking? I'm not using alt-ram though...

[kohli79]

Was the program "ALTRAMFX.PRG" included in the Auto folder in version 12.53?

I didn't use it if that's what your asking? I'm not using alt-ram though...

Okay, sorry. I thought the Falcon was powered by DFB1X ... :oops:

[exxos]

Okay, sorry. I thought the Falcon was powered by DFB1X ... :oops:

All tests on stock machine :)

Its like DMA doesn't work above 4MB RAM. But the SDMA has all addresses connected..

[kohli79]

Okay, sorry. I thought the Falcon was powered by DFB1X ... :oops:

All tests on stock machine :)

Its like DMA doesn't work above 4MB RAM. But the SDMA has all addresses connected..

That's very confusing. But a hardware problem can't be completely ruled out?

[exxos]

That's very confusing. But a hardware problem can't be completely ruled out?

Its hard to know what to point the finger at :(

Hardware faults would be generally more random. Like intermittent bad bits would cause even small files to fail eventually.. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Its like a limit is reached somewhere. Maybe some odd bus conflict when the videl tries to access ram during a copy :shrug:

But surely more people would have found out about this problem by now if it was a serious hardware fault..:shrug:

I can't do anything really until Jookie gives me a test program. It may give some clues but ultimately it may not be fixable.