Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: system locking up when accessing floppies Summary: Known bug, fixed in 1.3 ROMs Keywords: wrong floppy selected forever Message-ID: <1398@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 5 Jan 91 10:32:49 GMT References: Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA Lines: 18 In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >I've been having a problem with my A500 for a while now, but it's just >gotten frequent enough to make me want to do something about it. The >system will lock up sometimes when I'm accessing my floppy drives. The >drives will remain spinning and all I can do is reboot the machine. This problem is common with Amigas with the 1.2 ROMs. The usual case is when a program is writing to one floppy at the same instant that AmigaDOS decides to click the other floppy (to see if it's still empty). I got killed several times while trying to backup my harddisk last year. The workaround: Keep a floppy disk in all drives at all times. (No clicking.) The fix: Go to an Amiga dealer and get new ROMs installed. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-C51 | BIX: smithjoe | CA license plate: "POPJ P," (PDP-10) San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."