Software failure with ed ?!

[Matt3o]

ok this is new to me.

A1200, clean 3.1 install on an internal CF card. All seems to work. As soon as I try to use "ed" I get a general software failure (#80000004) "waiting for disk activity to finish". I get the same error trying to open the Fonts preferences, but everything else seems to be working.

I took the CF card and booted from winuae, same result! So fortunately it doesn't seem hardware related... any idea on how I can fix this? Defective CF card maybe?

Thanks!

 

[Sir_Lucas]

Have you checked the maxtransfer?
Check this thread:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=45491

 

[Deling]

why ??? why you use Compact flash ?? why ? )) i dont understand why people use this modern crap with old computers , this **** generate only problems with Amiga IDE controller

check maxtransfer like said sir_lucas

 

[Matt3o]

why ??? why you use Compact flash ?? why ? )) i dont understand why people use this modern crap with old computers , this **** generate only problems with Amiga IDE controller

check maxtransfer like said sir_lucas

I dared saying that I prefer HDD to CF and I've been ridiculed... So I sadly bought a CF IDE adapter. Fortunately I have 3 IDE HDD laying around

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ok maxtrasfer (which I though was relevant for WHDLoad only) didn't help. Gonna try with a second CF I have, then fallback to IDE HDD... that I don't know how to connect to winuae later to transfer some files around

 

[Arnie]

Try booting from the installation media (wb disks) and see if ed or fonts prefs works from them.

 

[Sir_Lucas]

@Matt3o
Did you press ENTER after typing the maxtransfer and mask digits?

 

[Matt3o]

I tried to install on a new CF and got the same identical issue... very weird...

Try booting from the installation media (wb disks) and see if ed or fonts prefs works from them.

ah good idea. I'll try this.

@Matt3o
Did you press ENTER after typing the maxtransfer and mask digits?

yeah, I read about that, thanks

 

[Sir_Lucas]

Try installing AmigaOS from the floppy disks. Go the oldschool route

 

[Matt3o]

Try installing AmigaOS from the floppy disks. Go the oldschool route

yes I'm already trying to install from real amiga with diskettes

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I tried everything I could think of... I'll now try with an IDE HDD but that will complicate enormously things later

 

[Sardine]

i'm probably alone in this but.

I found CF to be very fussy, on my amiga 1200, worked ok, on my lads worked but stuck on HDD light.

tried another brand, and on my amiga sometime boots sometimes does not, with PSf3 I keep getting device errors with dh2, my son's doesn't even see the cf

so atm, my son has a real 30gb hdd, only issue is on cold boot it doesn't see the hdd sometimes due to spin up time and rom 3.0

on mine I'm using a 32gb Sd card to 2.5" ide and it works perfectlty, even hdtools sees it and setup no issues. and copying is easy as my laptop has a built in sd card slot. (Ide led works also)

 

[Matt3o]

Apparently I sorted it out.

I was installing cloanto's 3.1, it seems it is somehow corrupted, I checked the disks but they reported no errors. Anyway I had an original 3.1 copy around, installed that and everything now seems to be working (running on CF).

Ohmy...

 

[supaduper]

I have noticed a few guys having problems with the new Cloanto WB disk set seems like the write process has a failure rate

 

[Matt3o]

I can certainly confirm that...

 

[Arnie]

i'm probably alone in this but.

I found CF to be very fussy, on my amiga 1200, worked ok, on my lads worked but stuck on HDD light.

tried another brand, and on my amiga sometime boots sometimes does not, with PSf3 I keep getting device errors with dh2, my son's doesn't even see the cf

so atm, my son has a real 30gb hdd, only issue is on cold boot it doesn't see the hdd sometimes due to spin up time and rom 3.0

on mine I'm using a 32gb Sd card to 2.5" ide and it works perfectlty, even hdtools sees it and setup no issues. and copying is easy as my laptop has a built in sd card slot. (Ide led works also)

I get the same problems with Kingston cards. Some boot fine, others when they feel like it. I might switch to SD cards. Where did you get your adapter from?

 

[Sir_Lucas]

I've been using Sandisks for some time. In my opinion they are the best.

 

[Sardine]

@arnie

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SD-to-2-5...-Digital-44-/231373980427?hash=item35def6c30b

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[woodycool]

Seen this many times before.
If you run the ED command from 1.2/1.3 workbench disk set on a kick 2.0 (or above) it'll guru straight away (either that, or throw up a suspend/reboot requester) - you can tell if you have the wrong version, the old ED shows "ED 1.14" in the window's title bar, the newer version shows "ED 2.0" in the title bar.
ED from 2.0 or above works fine on Kick 2.0 or above (as you'd expect)

I'd check the version of ED in your C: drawer first, just in case it's got overwritten by a rogue install script.

 

[Arnie]

@arnie

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SD-to-2-5...-Digital-44-/231373980427?hash=item35def6c30b

bin £8.99 free P&P uk

O.K. Thanks. What about SD Cards is class 4 fast enough?

(Last O.T post, I promise)

 

[Matt3o]

Seen this many times before.
If you run the ED command from 1.2/1.3 workbench disk set on a kick 2.0 (or above) it'll guru straight away (either that, or throw up a suspend/reboot requester) - you can tell if you have the wrong version, the old ED shows "ED 1.14" in the window's title bar, the newer version shows "ED 2.0" in the title bar.
ED from 2.0 or above works fine on Kick 2.0 or above (as you'd expect)

I'd check the version of ED in your C: drawer first, just in case it's got overwritten by a rogue install script.

this is interesting. since cloanto (at least my copy) proved to be pretty unstable I turned back to original 3.1 and everything seems to be working. It's likely a version conflict thing.

 

[Sardine]

@arnie

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SD-to-2-5...-Digital-44-/231373980427?hash=item35def6c30b

bin £8.99 free P&P uk

O.K. Thanks. What about SD Cards is class 4 fast enough?

(Last O.T post, I promise)

the Amiga wouldn't even break class 2 (2mb/sec), class 4 (4mb/sec) is probably the slowest I would use in an Amiga. i cant remember what brand is in my Amiga, I would have to check (means opening the amiga) I should get a Sd Card extending cable but i'm lazy and just use pcmcia to add updates etc.