MFAGKCHR@HMARL5.BITNET (03/22/90)
Hello,
This may have been discussed before. I haven't read the net since a long time.
Last week dutch TOS 1.4 ROMS were installed in one of our mega-2 systems.
I found some nasty problems, which I don't like at all:
1) I get lost and cross-linked clusters on the harddisk.
The harddisk is a megafile 30. I use CBHD 3.5, the harddisk driver
from the german 'Scheibenkleister' book. This did run very well
with TOS 1.2 (and 1.0). In the auto folder only environ.prg (which
sets the environment strings for TeX) and TOS14FIX.PRG are used.
(I do not use poolfix3, because it can not load after CBHD).
TURBOST16.ACC is the only accessory used.
I use GULAM, which is installed to autostart. I couldn't relate
the problem to a specific program. Although I noticed that most
problem files were created by SEDT or TeX (the TOOLS version), but than
most files are created by those 2 programs anyhow.
The problem might be a virus problem. I did get an old megafile 20 harddisk on
the same day. The disk was not empty. There were very much harddisk problems on
that disk, and I did send it back. I'm not sure however, whether the
a virus may have been transported from one system to the other.
2) Sometimes the system does not boot correctly, or I can not start
anything from Gulam.
Well, I have a lot of related questions. But I will post them separately.
The first problem described above is by far the most important.
I hope somebody has an answer.
Chris Evelo
MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET)MFAGKCHR@HMARL5.BITNET (03/26/90)
Hello,
I phoned the shop where I bougt the mega-2 with the dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs,
I wrote about before. They told me atari the ROMs were new. They had
only recently received UK and dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs. These have not been
delivered before. Only sets of six 34 K ROMs are available, so they
had to do some soldering to get these in a mega.
They told me, they had problems with the UK ROMs themselves. In fact they lost
their whole Calamus directory on a megafile 60. They installed the ROMs in a
mega-4 which had worked correctly until then. They had not used the CBHD driver
or Gulam. So I think these programs can not be related to the problem. I
received a megafile 20 from them which had been used with this mega 4 as a
temporary solution (atari does not deliver much in Holland at the moment), the
FAT and Directory structure of that disk had been ruined completely. In fact I
tried to repait this structure using the dutch TOS 1.4 ROMs, and did not
succeed. At that moment I expected the disk to be bad, and send it back.
These problems caused me to resubscribe to the info-atari16 digests
on BITNET. But I'm not sure whether I will receive them. Anyhow,
I have not received many reactions to this problem yet. Please send
important information to me directly.
It might be important to state that the problems are occur very often.
They are not occasional harddisk errors. I do not think that anybody
who does serious work on the ST can have missed them. So, if the problem
is caused by TOS 1.4 it must be an new problem. I do not think that
the previous US and German ROMs contain it.
I did look into the contents of the dutch ROMs. There is some rubish there
like JIM LOVES JENEANE. Is this true for the US ROMs as well? Or did
someone fool with it.
ATARI are you listening? I do not want to start a world wide rumour,
I just want to get rid of the problems. Please send me any info that
might help. I could even send a dump of the dutch ROMs to you, if
that might help.
Chris Evelo
MFAGKCHR@HMARL5 (BITNET)