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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AT Bridge can't find lib.
Message-ID: <706@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 19:21:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.706
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <840@thor.wright.EDU> amercer@eve.wright.edu (Art Mercer) writes:

>We have three A2500's with the AT Bridge board & Janus v2 software.
>From time to time when attempting to bring up the PC software, we will
>get a "library not found" error message.  The only way we've found
>to get the sucker working is a reboot of the Amiga.  This is happening
>with all 3 machines.  I got the gumption to post this cause I just had
>a student in my office with a brand new A2000 that's (mis)behaving in
>the same fashion.  This problem has seemed to occur randomly, so we
>haven't been able to trace a common cause.
>
>Any clues?

     I have a 2500 with an AT bridge board (Janus v2), and talked the
people at work into getting one too.  ;-)  Both machines sometimes
get the "library not found" requester.  I too found that the only
way out was to reboot until it decided to work.  My local dealer has
suggested inserting delays (e.g. WAIT 5) at various places in the
startup-sequence, but that only reduces, not eliminates, the probability
of the problem happening.  Customizing my startup-sequence for other
purposes seems to have been at least as effective.

     I too would love to find out what's going wrong, but the other
night I think I got a clue that might help any CATS types who deal
with the Janus software.  My startup-sequence includes the statement:

        run >nil: sys:PC/PCDisk

Normally when I do a STATUS (actually ps under Matt Dillon's shell is
much nicer) I see it running.  The other night, when the "library not
found" requester came up, I happened to do a ps for some reason, and
found that PCDisk was not running.  I tried to RUN SYS:PC/PCDisk - the
[CLI 2] message appeared, but ps revealed that PCDisk was not running.
Repeated attempts to RUN SYS:PC/PCDisk were all ignored (or perhaps
PCDisk terminated immediately).

     It seems that "library not found" doesn't necessarily indicate a
hardware error as the bridge board manual suggests.  When I re-boot,
PCDisk comes up and PCWindow works properly.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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