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From: cyosta@taux02.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ***WARNING*** don't use Continuum with disk chache on!!
Message-ID: <56@taux02.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 10:31:36 GMT
References: <878@taux01.UUCP> <863@psu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: taux01@cyosta@nsc.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman )
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In article <863@psu-cs.UUCP> hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) writes:
>In article <878@taux01.UUCP> taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) writes:
>>Yesterday my mac died.  The Harddisk was unreadable by SCSI Setup.  MacZap
>>recovered the files but it took a while.  The last thing I did was play 
>>Continuum.  I am convinced that Continuum overwrote the disk cache and thus
>>mangled my Harddisk.  I find Continuum to be a very fine game but I think
>
>	I find this surprising.  I downloaded the game and played with it 
>for hours, literally.  I played under unifinder with 128K of disk cache and
>system 5.0 with lots of inits.  It has not done any damage that I know about.

If I were you, I would attempt to backup my entire disk, see if any files
are screwed up.  My mac worked fine after I played continuum but it died
within hours, I have 2M.  I am convinced by comments made both by the author
and others that the problem is that Continuum is writting on memory it
shouldn't be writting on.  Maybe I was just unlucky to have it write on the
diskcache, maybe you will be unlucky like that.  I would prefer to wait for
the autor to claim that his program DOES NOT write on said memory before I
tried it again (after a full backup, of course).  The author admited that
he hadn't figured out how to check for high memory being in use, that to me
is very suspicious.  Another mac I know has some bad files that weren't bad
before I played continuum, the interesting part is that they were touched not
long before I tried continuum on the mac so they may have had some blocks
left in the cache.  I recomend the backup procedure to check for mangled
files/disks to anyone who has tried continuum, it can't hurt, and who knows,
it may save you some grief.
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Yossie Silverman                                   What did the Caspian sea?
National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel)				- Saki
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