Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:19647 comp.sys.amiga.tech:897 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!maloff From: maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Disk corrupt - task held Keywords: guru to the maximum frustrastion Message-ID: <1657@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 09:45:32 GMT Distribution: na Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab. Lines: 32 I've had this happen to me a few times now, and I'm beginning to get annoyed. I have this disk here. I put it in the machine and its icon appears. I double click on its icon and its window opens up. And then I get a visit from a system requester: Disk Corrupt - Task Held Finish ALL Disk Activity etc. I select cancel, and GOMF (Get Outta My Face 1.0) doesn't appear, instead I go straight into a guru of this form 8700000B.265F48F1 So I look up in my handy Amiga-Guru book on what this means and I find out we have a fatal error in the dos library, specifically key out of range. What piece of code, where, is so stupid as to require a guru just because I've selected on a corrupt disk? It wears my faith a little for a machine that cannot even recover from a corrupt disk. Could somebody please tell me what's happening here. Suffice it to say there are many ways to corrupt a disk, I want to know why the machine CANNOT ALWAYS recover from a corrupt disk. Thanx. || Sheldon ----========== \\ -----======|| || maloff@calgary.UUCP -----====== // Calgary, Alberta || || {ihnp4!alberta}!calgary!maloff -----== \\ Past Host of the || || .. eventually, we'll all be scaled by zero and ---= // '88 Winter Games || || converge upon the origin ... then we'll party! -= \\ ---==||