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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 AUTO bug
Message-ID: <5440069@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 19:34:18 GMT
References: <122@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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I, too, have a Mega ST2 with TOS 1.4, and I run Neodesk 2.04 as an AUTO
application. I do not use UNITERM, but I am seeing some similar sorts of
things, I think, and in my comm program as well. Everything went okay in the
past week since the TOS 1.4 upgrade until yesterday, when I had *5* "random" 
system crashes. This is a very rare problem in my experience.

One crash occured when I double-clicked HDUTIL.PRG 4.1.8 - the disk access 
began, and whammo, address error. Three times I had address errors in Interlink 
(one in the middle of a 200K GENIE download). But two of these were using the
buffer editor, and I have had that crash before). These three crashes were 
followed by subsequent crashes on cold reboot (keyboard-invoked). It took 
two cold reboots to get things running again.  The fifth crash was when 
I tried to extract from a file archive. After reboot, it worked just fine. 
Did I mention - these were all address errors!!!

I have two suspicions at this point - a hardware problem (oooh noooo!!!) or
maybe I am experiencing some residual effects of having set the "fast" bit in
just about everything I use. (That, in fact, is the first thing I am going to
do, unset the fast bit in Neodesk, Hdutils & Interlink. I don't think I set
it in arc, though I'll check.)

So, I would also like to know if any of the Atari folk have a suggestion!

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author,
            who has no pecuniary interest in the companies mentioned.

Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino.
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