[HN Gopher] Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 unless the clock ...
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       Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 unless the clock app is just so
        
       Author : doener
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2020-04-11 17:39 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | doener wrote:
       | Via
       | https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/fz7qh6/amiga_4000_my...
        
       | Zenst wrote:
       | Interesting problem and one of those quirky solutions that start
       | of as a temporary fix and yet become ingrained as standard
       | working practice. May even be few related quirky solutions across
       | systems that all add up to the real issue and that may very well
       | of been network timing and without digging deeper and other
       | tests, be hard to eliminate.
       | 
       | Was this unique to this system, could it be plugged into a
       | different network port and have same issue, could another system
       | have the same issue. Was the system bios/os levels the same. So
       | many things that without knowing, won't narrow this down. May
       | even be settings of a dip switch on an HS causing timing issues
       | and as these early systems did much in software upon the CPU over
       | dedicated chips and corners saved. System clocks and timing
       | circuits can become one of those things that spring up with the
       | quickest and most intermittent and apparently unrelated forms of
       | fun in IT.
       | 
       | Hence the usual process of elimination to narrow it down lacking
       | in this problem and solution outlined and with that, could be
       | many factors at play, even a dying capacitor or a bent ribbon
       | cable/poor connection. SO many possible reasons for it to cause
       | this kinda quirk. But certainly a good example of one of those
       | mysteries you get and real issues that are fun to investigate
       | albeit time/pressure to get things working can and often do see
       | the temporary solution become part of working practice.
        
       | renox wrote:
       | And that's why I'll never use an OS without memory protection..
        
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