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aeberbach · 28 September 2021, 07:13

I have a theory... a SIMM that I _thought_ was 8MB was detected as 4MB in the MX1230A 68030 card. I thought I must have been mistaken and I used it. Now after switching to a SIMM also marked 8MB and seeing it detected as 8MB I think maybe the troubles first time were related to that bad SIMM.

I reinstalled 3.1.4 FFS and patches on the same CF - this time no issues. I have been able to proceed through installing MMULib, Dopus, CF133, FAT filesystem etc. and have copied about 1GB of stuff onto the Work partition with no hangs.

28 September 2021, 07:13	#8
aeberbach Registered User Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 423	I have a theory... a SIMM that I _thought_ was 8MB was detected as 4MB in the MX1230A 68030 card. I thought I must have been mistaken and I used it. Now after switching to a SIMM also marked 8MB and seeing it detected as 8MB I think maybe the troubles first time were related to that bad SIMM. I reinstalled 3.1.4 FFS and patches on the same CF - this time no issues. I have been able to proceed through installing MMULib, Dopus, CF133, FAT filesystem etc. and have copied about 1GB of stuff onto the Work partition with no hangs.