Re: crashes with A3000/040/25 running 1.3

[Bernd Sieker <bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

on 24-Jan-98 Miloslaw Smyk wrote about "crashes with A3000/040/25 running
1.3":

Hi Milek,

> Hello,

> Yesterday I've installed 1.3 on our trusty A3000, with 3640 (040/25), 12MB
> RAM, Ariadna and 128MB swap file. The kernel was custom compiled to exclude
> almost everything not found on this machine. It works perfectly, but for
> 0.5-2h. By then everything goes down and after reboot a following entry is
> present in the log:

I've been running an A3000 with A3640 for quite some time, and the main 
problem I had was that the Super-DMAC was getting too hot. This resulted in
corrupt SCSI transfers. I had random crashes and Real3D rendering errors under
AmigaOS and also crashes under NetBSD.

My solution was to install a CPU-cooler fan on top of the DMAC, since the
latest revision (-04 I think), which is not that heat-sensitive, is very hard
to get by.


If you experience weird behaviour with AmigaOS and with a generic (install-)
kernel, too, the above might help.



> Milek

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Bernd Sieker