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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
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Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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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.

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