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From: 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in WB 1.3.2 Format or Validate?
Message-ID: <1989Oct18.000725.10728@aucs.uucp>
Date: 18 Oct 89 00:07:25 GMT
References: <4095@abaa.UUCP>
Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <4095@abaa.UUCP> esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) writes:
>There is a bug in WB 1.3.2.  I can't quite tell if it is in the Format command
>or the disk validator.
>
>Every so often, when I format a disk, the format operation runs to completeness
>and the starts the validate.  At this point, the Amiga hangs completely.  Upon
>reboot, the formatted disk validates without error and is perfectly fine.  This
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I had this happen to me the other night but didn't think to try to analyze
what had happened.  It didn't really dawn on me until now that this could
be the problem.  It happened only hours after I upgraded my boot disk to 
1.3.2
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