avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) (02/12/91)
Has any STE owner ever had the problem of two bombs (bus error) appearing on the screen after one of the alert boxes `no disk in drive A' or `Disk in drive A has been write-protected'? Can anyone explain this strange behaviour of my computer (which already caused me to loose MANY files)? Annius Groenink De Mamuchetweg 5 3732 AK De Bilt The Netherlands AVGROENI@CS.RUU
wolfram@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler) (02/13/91)
avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) writes: > Has any STE owner ever had the problem of two bombs (bus error) appearing >on the screen after one of the alert boxes `no disk in drive A' or >`Disk in drive A has been write-protected'? Can anyone explain this strange >behaviour of my computer (which already caused me to loose MANY files)? I remember having this problem for some time on a TOS 1.2 1040ST. The reason for this was an auto folder program which was supposed to speed up disk access (as far as I remember). Boot your system without installing anything from the auto folder and see if the problem is still there. If it's not, activate the auto folder prg one by one to see which is to blame.
apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) (02/14/91)
avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) writes: > Has any STE owner ever had the problem of two bombs (bus error) appearing >on the screen after one of the alert boxes `no disk in drive A' or >`Disk in drive A has been write-protected'? Can anyone explain this strange >behaviour of my computer (which already caused me to loose MANY files)? Try not running any accessories, and see if the problem goes away. There is a bug in some TOSes: if an alert comes up, and then an accessory's event_timer call expires, and then the accessory makes a GEMDOS call, you will get bombs when you click either button of the alert. The original Control Panel from Atari (the one that lets you set the colors) did in fact use event_timer and then make GEMDOS calls, so it would cause this problem to happen. Most accessories don't have this problem, since (A) they don't use event_timer much, or (B) they don't do GEMDOS calls as a result of event_timer. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt