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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
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Subject: Flash 1541 oddity
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 06:25:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 06:25:53 1985
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Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (Mike Gerard, DD Division, CERN.)
Organization: CERN, Geneva/Switzerland
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First remark: I am very happy with Flash, so don't take this
as any condemnation. I just wonder who else has met this oddity.

When I start a disk command before the disk drive has stopped
humming from the previous command, then the disk drive can hang up.
Also applies to when the previous command is still executing, but is
probably the same phenomenon.
Thus, after setting in motion a disk command S0:* to scratch all
files on a scratch disk, I asked to load the directory while the
scratching was going on. Lo and behold, the disk went into an
infinite null loop, only stoppable by power off. After powering
back on I found that there were still some files on the disk.

Anyone ever seen such oddities?