#M1230 XA problems
12-Nov-93 05:47:35
Sb: #68155-#M1230 XA problems
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