Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!STC.LOCKHEED.COM!kosma%human-torch From: kosma%human-torch@STC.LOCKHEED.COM (Monty Kosma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Unit names -> : Message-ID: <9006082114.AA03862@human-torch.lockheed.com> Date: 8 Jun 90 21:14:59 GMT References: <03378.AA03378@ufweed.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 From: "Frank P. Weed II" Has anyone ever had a device name changed to only a colon? I've encountered this several times (ie: "dh9:" becomes ":") and it's quite annoying. I've even uploaded some archives to a board from a partition only to find that partition yanked from me when I go to send another file. You can still access the partition by it's volume name, but INFO and XOPER all show the unit as ":". Since I'm running virtually everything over here (KS1.2, OS1.3, ARP1.3, SCSIDOS 3.0), I don't really have a clue as to what program is causing this problem. BTW: it's not that frequent - maybe only 7 times in the last year, but just annoying (and somewhat interesting ;) Yeah, I've seen this and wondered too; try to cd to a different partition (like cd y:) and it says that it can't find y:, then info shows up a ":" drive. Another interesting thing I noticed is that I can then do a "mount y:" and INFO will show up both the ":" and the "y:" with the same stuff on them. Anyway, this always scared me a bit, so I usually rebooted when I saw it happen. Bugs the heck out of me too, since I can't seem to find a cause for it. And I've seen it once every month or two as well. monty kosma@human-torch.lasc-research.lockheed.com