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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: bombs on an STE, GCR mouse
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.201052.21311@uvm.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 20:10:52 GMT
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From article <4824@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, by avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink):
> 
>   Has any STE owner ever had the problem of two bombs (bus error) appearing
> on the screen after one of the alert boxes `no disk in drive A' or
> `Disk in drive A has been write-protected'? Can anyone explain this strange
> behaviour of my computer (which already caused me to loose MANY files)?
> 
> 
> 
> Annius Groenink
> De Mamuchetweg 5
> 3732 AK De Bilt
> The Netherlands
> AVGROENI@CS.RUU

Hey, I think I get it on my (homebrew connector) Tandy drive B with my
ancient 520ST ('85 vintage) - it doesn't happen on drive A.  No idea
why - would love to fix it.

I also have similar request.  I recently got Spectre GCR - well, I got
it before the ROM shortage 8-) and I have a mouse crashing problem.  I
ended up trashing my system 6.05 disks on version 2.65c of Spectre.
Turns out that they're not compatible - and I didn't know it - or make
backups from the Spectre menu until too late.  I had assumed that the
mouse crashes were due to the previously trashed and not properly
installed system driver.  However, I get the same problem currently
running Spectre 3.0, which supports sys 6.05.  I found this out when I
realized that I could boot from the disk utility disk.  Since I'm
getting a fresh copy of everything from a local mac store soon, I want
to fix this (Rats, first the NEC drive to fix, then this!).  

The symptom is that the mouse freezes on the screen, and I then trash
my system disk, since the keyboard is not responding either, and mac
menus don't have default key equivalents anyway 8-(.  Do I need a new
IKBD processor, or a new machine?  If only TTs were class B approved!
This risky store-in-memory behavior of the mac file system is souring
me on the whole deal.  I know, Un*x also can crash horribly when it
loses power - but at least *it* has fsck!  A "busy or defective" app
on a mac does not seem to be fixed by the disk repair program (humph!).

Bob Pegram

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