Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!eeyore!madler From: madler@eeyore.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: 48 archive crash Message-ID: <1990Dec22.204041.21521@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 22 Dec 90 20:40:41 GMT References: <27727374:1483.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: eeyore.caltech.edu My rev A would die about 1/4 of the time doing archives until Bill Wickes told me that turning off the clock would cure the problem. I then added that to my backup program, so my archives are now *always* done with the clock off. I emphasize this because once, and only once, since I did that, an archive failed in precisely the same way. I estimate I had done about 30 or 40 archives in that time. I would conclude then that turning off the clock drastically reduces the probability of the that failure, but does not eliminate it completely. Mark Adler madler@pooh.caltech.edu