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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Major bug in AmigaDOS!
Message-ID: <6701@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 12 Apr 90 15:40:20 GMT
References: <1655@eklektik.UUCP>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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In article <1655@eklektik.UUCP>, danbabcock@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/tty000) writes:
> F. Michael Theilig wrote (Message-ID: <16054@snow-white.udel.EDU>)
> the following (in part):
> 
>>     I kick the disk back out.  "Gimme it back!!!"  <Cancel!> <Cancel!>
>> <Cancel!> <Cancel!> <Cancel!>  "I'm not kidding!  You had better do as
>> I say!"  <Cancel!> <Cancel!> <Cancel!>  "I warned you!"
>>

I get this only three times, then it gives up.
> 
> The same happened to me not long ago. It appears to be a *major* bug in
> AmigaDOS (sure, it could be intuition, trackdisk.device, or the ARP1.3
> commands that I was using - but who believes that?). I hope someone at
> Commodore is reading this. When this happened to me, I literally screamed
> in frustration (because of the guru, not so much because of the crazy
> requesters). Next time, I'm going to coolly drop into ROMWack and gather
> clues. Again, people at Commodore: please investigate this one; your
> users will be much happier!

I don't use arp. I strongly suspect this is the cause of your troubles.
Like I say, I get a very similar problem, but after 3 cancels, the os
wanders off and finds something else to do.

Regards Alan

> 
> -- Dan Babcock / voice: (412)-373-1753