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From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARRGH! Disk Killer in 1.2
Message-ID: <1539@stb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 02:29:10 EST
Article-I.D.: stb.1539
Posted: Mon Nov 30 02:29:10 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 05:22:40 EST
Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, USA, 90402
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There is a NASTY disk eater bug in 1.2

Situation: copy of Hex in drive 0, utilities disk in drive 1, facc active.

Hex reports a read/write error (the reason I use a copy). Retry doesn't
work, so I eject both disks and put switch drives. The system does
not automatically detect the disk change (not the first time, I
didn't worry), so I hit "retry".

Immediately, I get a guru. After re-booting, the hex disk gives me a
"disk unreadable" error; the utilities disk claims to be "hex", or so
its title says.

The bug? There is a requestor in 1.2 that says "You MUST replace disk
so and so in drive so and so.". It didn't come up. Nor was the i/o
simply flushed and lost; it wrote on the wrong disk.

Thank god for disk salv.
				Michael Gersten
Copy protection? Just Say "Off Site Backup" (I'm back)
-- 
: Michael Gersten		ihnp4!hermix!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael
:				sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!stb!michael
: The above is the result of being educated at a school that discriminates
: against roosters.