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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A1020 (5.25 inch drive) Problems
Keywords: trackdisk.device RAWREAD RAWWRITE bug
Message-ID: <5465@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 04:05:00 GMT
References: <506@aecom2.AECOM.YU.EDU> <3043@sugar.uu.net> <5418@cbmvax.UUCP> <167@dms3b1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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In article <167@dms3b1.UUCP> dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) writes:
>In article <5418@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>[ Description of problem with PCcopy, etc. on A2000 with 1 3.5", external
>A1020 deleted ]
>>	You people have hit a bug in trackdisk that was discovered recently.

	By recently I meant since 1.3 was released.

>>	This bug will be fixed in 1.4 (it's in the ROM).
>
>I may be showing my ignorance of OS structure here, but is there any
>possibility of an interrim fix using a Setfunction type patch, similar to
>the way the Setalert bug was handled?  Failing that, could there be a 
>patch that would force the particular memory location in question to a
>valid value?

	Not really, it's hidden inside an internal subroutine of the
trackdisk, though I'll look at it in case there's an easy workaround we
can add to setpatch or some such.  Hitting the memory location could make
things worse by killing some other process or data structure.

>With 1.3 finally showing up after (it seems like) nearly a year, I'm
>not too thrilled about being told "It'll be fixed in 1.4" !

	1.3 was a workbench release.  1.3 kickstart has NO bug fixes, the only
change is that you can autoboot off HD's.  Otherwise it IS 1.2 kickstart.  All
rom bugs are hopefully going to be fixed in 1.4.

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup