Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!fernwood!portal!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc From: cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Y.A.A.G. (Yet Another Amiga Gripe) Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 22:56:35 GMT References: <58782@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: Very Messy. :) Lines: 47 In article fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart) writes: >In article <58782@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> skwood@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) writes: >> >> All in all, the Amiga is a wonderful machine and I probably wouldn't >>choose another computer. However, there are always little things >>with any system that are utterly annoying. The Amiga is no exception. >> In 1.0-1.3 versions of Workbench (don't know about 2.0), if you wrote >>to a disk with an error, a Read/Write error requester popped up asking you >>to Cancel or Retry. Here's the gripe : EVEN IF YOU PRESS CANCEL, Why does >>the OS insist on continuing the operation, nearly always resulting in >>ANOTHER Read/Write error requester. I have tried to copy files from a bad >>disk only to spend 5 minutes pressing Cancel on the Read/Write error >>requesters before FINALLY the system got the hint and stopped the copying >>process. Why does the system do this? Also, is this problem fixed in >>the current beta-versions of 2.0? If not, is it going to be fixed? >> >> >> Scott >Yes, that is annoying....have you tried using gomf? >#! rnews 1320 >Path: aminet!gdc!portal!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp. GOMF won't fix this (at least not the old PD version.) Why this happens is because the OS generates the requester when it can't read/write to a particular BLOCK. If you cancel, for some reason it tries to continue the operation on the NEXT BLOCK. If that block is also bad (often the case on floppies, not usually so on HD's) it generates ANOTHER requester. Not sure of the cirsumstances under which this occures (not usually with file-scans, etc.) I recently developed 3 r/w errors on my HD. Any good PD programs to mark these IN-USE? I want them OUT reguardless of what file they are in. I have an older version of QBTOOLS, but it complains that the blocks in question are in a file, but then can't tell me WHAT files. Pretty damn useless if you ask me. -- ========================================================================== Chris Cebelenski UUCP: portal.com!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc The Red Mage Internet: czaeap!cpc@aminet.gdc.portal.com GEnie: C.CEBELENSKI // "Amiga - The way REAL people compute" "Better dead than mellow" \X/ ========================================================================== NOTE: Due to brain dead mailers, this message can *NOT* be REPLIED to, to reach me you MUST send a NEW message. Sorry!