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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: input.device, trackdisk.device, pointers
Message-ID: <15015@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 01:19:23 GMT
References: <4925@monu1.cc.monash.oz>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4925@monu1.cc.monash.oz> ins778u@vax4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  c.r. hames) writes:
>4.  The trackdisk.device RAW_READ for 1.2/1.3 is said to fail in certain
>    circumstances.  What are they?  Does Setpatch correct this?

	It fails usually when you have only one floppy hooked up.  It
usually works with more than one floppy.  The error returned is a wrong
length error (the length-check of the data depends on a value in a specific
memory location, which usually ends up in the 2nd trackdisk's buffer space).

	It is not fixed by setpatch.  It is, of course, fixed in 2.0.

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