jeffp@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke - Vet med staff) (06/08/91)
I have spent way too much time trying to figure this out. I have System 7.0 on a LaCie Silverlining-formatted ZFP100 drive. I have System 6.07 on the internal 40 MB drive of my SE/030. Both systems use Disktop 4.01 with CEToolbox 1.6a18. On System 7.0 Disktop bombs everytime with an illegal instruction with I try to unmount a floppy disk. Unmounts of hard disk volumes work fine. Anyone seen this and/or know how to fix? I've already tried removing *all* other non-Apple-Sys7-distributed cdevs and inits. I've already completely reinstalled System 7. I've already reinstalled Disktop and it's supporting files a couple of times... Driving me nuts... -- Jeff Parke jeffp@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu OR ...uunet!yoda.eecs.wsu.edu!jeffp
alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg) (06/12/91)
In article <1991Jun8.061828.18230@serval.net.wsu.edu>, jeffp@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke - Vet med staff) writes: > > On System 7.0 Disktop bombs everytime with an illegal instruction with I try > to unmount a floppy disk. Unmounts of hard disk volumes work fine. > > Anyone seen this and/or know how to fix? I've already tried removing *all* > other non-Apple-Sys7-distributed cdevs and inits. I've already completely > reinstalled System 7. I've already reinstalled Disktop and it's supporting > files a couple of times... Driving me nuts... > Yes. This is a known problem. I even believe that there is an additional "read me" type file found on the "Before You Install" disk that describes this exact problem. Due to a known bug in System 7.0, Desk Accessories may not Unmount drives. Disktop should work fine otherwise. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alexr@apple.com - Yoyodyne - - 330 1/2 Waverley St. - UUCP:ucbvax!apple!alexr - Propulsion - - Palo Alto, CA 94301 - - Systems - - (415) 329-8463 - Nobody is my employer so - :-) - - (408) 974-3110 - nobody cares what I say. - -
dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun8.061828.18230@serval.net.wsu.edu> jeffp@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke - Vet med staff) writes: >On System 7.0 Disktop bombs everytime with an illegal instruction with I try >to unmount a floppy disk. Unmounts of hard disk volumes work fine. > >Anyone seen this and/or know how to fix? There is apparently a bug in the UnmountVol() trap code in System 7. It causes crashes when a desk accessory unmounts a floppy. All other cases work correctly, it seems. I learned about this problem from Jeff Shulman, the author of VirusDetective. He's had to install code in the beta versions of VirusDetective to keep it from unmounting floppies under System 7. As of the last I heard from him (last week) he has been unable to work around the crash in any more elegant way... the trap simply will not work properly. -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 813-8917 Domain: dplatt@ntg.com UUCP: ...apple!ntg!dplatt USNAIL: New Technologies Group Inc. 2468 Embarcardero Way, Palo Alto CA 94303