[HN Gopher] Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 unless the clock ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.theregister.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.co.uk) | 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.. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-11 23:00 UTC)