Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Obsessive Multitasking and Amiga File I/O Scheduling Message-ID: <1990Sep24.095826.2869@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 24 Sep 90 09:58:26 GMT References: <1990Sep8.050725.14384@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1234@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 17 jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: > xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >> Along with the deadly repeated "key error, backup, reformat and reload" >> problems reported here so often, this is another market killer ... > > They say that this particular problem has been fixed in AmigaDos-2.0. > The data written to the disk is the same as if the file had been completely > closed and reopened after each write. That sounds _so_ nice! Can anyone confirm: 1) that this change has been made; and 2) that it actually cures the problems that have caused most of the hard disk "key error" problems (like over 99% of them?) Kent, the man from xanth.