dalel@servio.UUCP (Dale LaFountain) (09/05/90)
I have recently noticed that almost every time I enter a dialog in GS/OS (i.e. from GS Shrinkit, ShowPic NDA, GIFConvert, most PD stuff) I get an extra partition listed. I have four partitions: the first two mapped to s7,d1 and d2; the other two are mapped to s1,d1 and d2 using SCSI Partition. When I enter the dialog, the Volume (Disk?) displayed is my third partition, /STUFF (in all CAPS). If I click the Disk button, I get my normal third partition, /Stuff. All subsequent changes of volume are correct (until you bring up another dialog box). I have a sneaking feeling that SCSI Partition is to blame for this, as I don't remember this happening before I installed it. I'll remove it and see what happens. Another strange thing that is more annoying is the contents of the volumes that are displayed. Every once in a while, I get a directory listing that has multiple (say, 10-20) copies of a select file or folder listed, and most or all other entries are ignored. If I close that folder and re-open it (or scan Volumes back around if it's the root) everything is cool. Nothing is noticeably wrong, just very annoying and time-consuming. Are these two problems related? Most of these problems occured with Shareware/Freeware programs. AppleWorks GS has neither of these problems. Is this relevant? I realize that AppleWorks GS had much more effort put into its creation and functionality (no offense to all you s/w programmers :) but it might just have a little better error handling and such. Has anyone else had these problems? Anyone else using SCSI Partition with GS/OS? I would hate to abandon SCSI Partition just because of these quirks; ghost slots are just soooooo handy. Thanks is advance, Dale LaFountain dalel@servio.SLC.COM
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (09/05/90)
dalel@servio.UUCP (Dale LaFountain) writes: >Another strange thing that is more annoying is the contents of the volumes >that are displayed. Every once in a while, I get a directory listing that >has multiple (say, 10-20) copies of a select file or folder listed, and >most or all other entries are ignored. If I close that folder and re-open >it (or scan Volumes back around if it's the root) everything is cool. >Nothing is noticeably wrong, just very annoying and time-consuming. I believe that this is a genuine bug in the Prodos FST; it has been a fairly randome fluke and the fact that it is harmless and easy to fix suggests that it will not be too hard to work out of the next O/S release. As for you problems with SCSI partition, GS/OS programs don't need it. Only P8 programs need SCSI partition. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu