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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXECUTE
Message-ID: <1910@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 90 01:19:34 GMT
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In <20523.26dbd2db@psuecl.bitnet>, d6b@psuecl.bitnet writes:
>In article <1901@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>
>> We'd need more details. Validation can be caused by incomplete writes to disk
>> (reset or power off or crash while writing), or by a bug in the
>> trackdisk.device in version 1.2 of the OS. The bug shows up when a floppy is
>> exactly full. Get rid of the writes to the temp file, delete any in the T:
>> directory, and see if your problem still occurs.
>>
>
>Do you really mean trackdisk, or are you referring to some file system?
>If the latter, which file system has this bug? Thanks!

Hmmm... really not sure. Since I only ever saw the bug on floppies, perhaps it
was the OFS.

-larry


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