Kevin.Hill@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Kevin Hill) (06/08/90)
I have a Mac Plus with 2.5Meg of memory and when I spent 2 days uploading
the required stuff from MacCircles for system 6.0.5 it showed the same
symptoms. However, I let it go on for about 1 hour before I switched back to
my trusty system 6.0.3. I still have finder 6.1.5 and it seems to work fine,
no crashs or erronious Bad Disk errors.
It seems that system 6.0.5 does not like our lowly Mac Plus machines!
Before I changed systems, I spend that 1 hour running several checks on my
system, booting without inits, booting with minimum inits, checking for viri
with Disenfect 1.8 and also testing my hard drive. All of those tests turned
up no problems.
The time when the problems showed up most, however, was when I tried to
copy files from the hard drive to disks or other folders, I received an error
#10 and the machine froze.
As far as I am concerned, 6.0.3 is as far as I need to go for any system
upgrades from now on!
It is truely unfortunate that the mac, such a pricy and good machine, is
forced to work with software (system software of all things) that causes
problems. If you believe this, of all the games that I have purchased only
one has problems, and of all the problems that I have had, I have usually
been able to correct the problem by replacing the system file with a unused
copy from my 6.0.3 instalation disks!
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