FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET (09/05/87)
Nice to hear that Atari is backing away from PC clones and emulators. Somebody should lock the lot of them in the Atari compound and not let them out until they've rewritten the os from top to bottom, including 68020 support... One thing they could look at is this trick. My home ST has two drives. Some of my boot disks have a desktop.inf which opens windows on both A: and B:, no problem. However on a couple of occasions I've used the disks on a 1040ST with only the internal drive. When it asks me to insert B disk, I press return, and again when it asks for A, so I get both windows showing the same disk. Then I activate and close the B: window so it only shows A:. Now...I load an application and start to work. About this point I start getting the "data on drive A may be damaged" dialog. If I keep working, it gets weirder. Requests for files come back with error statuses. The file selector shows garbaged names. When I exit, the names in the window are trashed. Resetting doesn't help, but powering down and booting with a disk that doesn't refer to B: works, and the disk that had appeared trashed is fine. This has happened twice, once with an EasyDraw disk and once with Publishing Partner, and only when my two-drive boot disk is used. It is easy enough to avoid, but still annoying. At least one user here thinks that playing with drive B: on his single drive 1040 leads to trashed disks... Oh well. Don FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET