Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!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: <1990Sep28.021437.3769@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Sep 90 02:14:37 GMT References: <1990Sep8.050725.14384@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1234@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <1990Sep24.095826.2869@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 20 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >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?) I've gotten two email confirmations of this. Well done, C-A! Kent, the man from xanth.