Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!amdahl!nsc!taux01!taux02!cyosta 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 Lines: 31 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. -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) - Saki UUCP: taux01!yossie@nsc.UUCP NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY