MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET (01/22/89)
Has anyone tried the program FastDisk? I tried it on my WB 1.2 disk, and
it reduced my startup-time by 30 secs (I copy C dir to ram). However,
I tried it several times on WB 1.3 disks, and it never worked. The
result was always a disk that had a corrupt directory, I believe.
Whenever I would try to do a DIR of one of these disks, my A1000 would
promptly guru. Someone suggested it was my drives or bad disks, but I
have used high quality disks, and can repeat the error by using the above
program. The disks will also crash computers besides my own.
Is it normal for AmigaDOS to crash just because it encounters a garbage
directory? I don't expect anyone has a solution, but I would appreciate
an explanation of how the above guru is caused.
--> Dennis Gorrie
MOLNARRM AT UREGINA1.BITNET
''Chain-Saw Tag... Try it, You'll Like it!''dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu (Daniel Zenchelsky) (03/12/89)
Help! Something is trashing my disk directories, and I don't think it's a virus, because I have VirusX 3.20 running. It seems to happen while I'm downloading files, using either A-Talk III, Online 2.11, Azcomm, or JRComm. It's happened to me three times in a row today, on different disks, and has happened sporadically on other occasions, although I've always dismissed it as flakey disks. Now that I only use Sony's, I'm not as quick to dismiss it... There are a lot of programs I keep in my startup-sequence, so I will list them here, and pray that someone who has had this problem, and discovered the cause will be able to help me. Meanwhile, I will have to go and systematically check each program... (AHHHH!!!!!!) Here goes: ---------- Kickstart 1.2 Workbench 1.3 ( 34.20 ) RAD: dmouse setfont 2.0 Fast Fonts Gomf 3.0 VirusX 3.2 SetPatch setclock,setmap usa1 spudclock snipit V1.2 JR-Beep muddlebar Facc II newshell, newcon: Thanks everybody, I'm gonna start removing things from my startup-sequence and see if it helps. It sounds like something falls into the sinister Delay 0 bug... -DAn +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ | | || |o| Daniel Zenchelsky -- dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu | | ||___| | | | | _ | "If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist" | | \_[]_|_| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
kenneth.tam@canremote.uucp (KENNETH TAM) (03/16/89)
This probably sounds really idiotic, but I recall the docs in JR-Comm specifically stating that JRBEEP is NOT to be run and is called directly by JRComm. I don't suppose this would affect your disks, but it IS something ;-) -Kenneth --- * Via ProDoor 2.9a --- MaS Relayer v1.00.00 Via Fidonet node 1:223/224.0 - MaS Network Software and Consulting/HST Internet: kenneth.tam@canremote.uucp UUCP: ...tmsoft!masnet!canremote!kenneth.tam