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#M1230 XA problems

    12-Nov-93 05:47:35
Fm: IAIN WHITEHEAD. 100022,2554
To: Dan Barrans 75036,2230
DAN & JOE, The previous chip ram was in the region of more than 1.9Mb, the exact figure I cannot recall. I have 5 partitions on my hardrive with a number of icons displayed outside their drawers. When I removed these icons back to their drawers I ended up with GRAPHIC 1,291,160 and FAST 8,303,136 available. Avail says I have a maximum of CHIP 2096128 but that 809072 is in use.Isthere any way of getting shell to state what is using up this memory. I have Virus Checker running automatically and a few programs in the user-startup drawer. I tried to run Pro-Page and once running it left me with GRAPHIC 784,904 FAST 6,665,464. So the fast ram is being used but I was unable to run a second Pro-Page, which I have done before on my A500+ as I was out of chip ram. How do I check for the amount of memory used in the ram buffer you mentioned? There appears to be nothing in the manual about it. As per recommendations I wrote into the ed s:startup-sequence the following lines after C:SetPatch QUIET … SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA >NIL: but this only produced an aborted startup when rebooted with the comments SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA: unknown command SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA failed returncode 10 I removed the SetXA line but still had the same result with SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA: unknown command SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA failed returncode 10 Both of the SetXA and AutoXA icons were in the Utilities drawer as recommended by the information sheet supplied. I look at all this and cannot see at what I am doing wrong.I am following the instructionsbut it just isn't happening with my machine, so I really appreciate any help you fellow M1230XA users out there can give me. A new alarming problem is that AUTOPILOT is crashing on me with frightening regularity. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with M1230XA problems. (I am actually typing/sending this reply on the AUTOPILOT A500+ as I am unable to use the AUTOPILOT A1200 anymore). IAIN. AMIGA 1200 on AUTOPILOT from SCOTLAND! iain@altspor.demon.co.uk