jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) (01/19/88)
I tried to use TURTLE to back up my Supra hard disk. Everything worked peachy until trying to write the seventh floppette, at which point it barfed, saying that it had encountered a fatal error writing the Ramdisk. I tried it twice more, and it barfed the same way on the same file every time. I punted the file, and it then picked a different file to barf on. I then wised up and did incremental backups, and it did about 7 more disks, and then got the same error. All the files that it was trying to copy were fine, no apparent corruption on the hard disk. It appears to be corrupting its ramdisks in some obscure way. Anybody seen this? Anybody got any ideas? Next: I'm looking for source (68K code preferred) for floating point routines. Anybody got any handy? If it's any incentive, they're for the GNU C compiler, so if anybody wants to see it for STs, help me find the support code instead of writing it from scratch and getting it wrong a couple of times :-} Finally, I'm still trying to get hold of Mark Johnson, of MJC fame. Either the various mailers are screwed up as usual, or he's dropped into a black hole somewhere. Mark, if you see this, please try to respond; I've got a bunch of bug reports and test cases for you!