Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: system locking up when accessing floppies Keywords: wrong floppy selected forever Message-ID: <17161@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 04:32:46 GMT References: <1398@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <1398@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: >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. Sorry, no, new (aka 1.3) ROMs won't help (all they have is autoboot support). However, getting the most recent version of 1.3 (actually I think every version later than 1.30) gets you the version of SetPatch that fixes this. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)