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From: chaosboss@pro-lep.cts.com (Circuit Breaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Disk Strangeness...
Message-ID: <8911121802.AA24627@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: 10 Nov 89 11:44:46 GMT
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When I use certain programs (mostly SHRConvert & Sound Studio) and try to load
a file, I get to the dialog box and hit tab for next disk.  The first time I
do that, it reads my ROMdisk <battery-backed up RAM> just fine.  But when I
insert a new disk in the drive and hit tab again, sometimes I get the
directory from the disk that *was* in the drive.  If I eject the second disk
manually, no problem, but if I hit tab to go back to the ROMdisk, somehow the
old directory gets written to the second disk, thus I lose whatever files
there were on the second disk.

My system consists has a Unidisk 3.5, and 2.25 Meg of RAM w/RAMKeeper.  I have
768k dedicated to a ROMDisk and use it for the boot drive (10 second boot)

Anybody else had this happen to them?  I play it reall safe these days when
using SHRConvert and Sound Studio.

BTW:  After the first time this happened, I write-protected ALL my disks
(isn't paranoia great?)  but that didn't help at all.  It actually wrote to a
write protected disk!

<wants HD so he can quit worrying about disk swapping problems>

sigh,
cb
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