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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: bombs on an STE
Keywords: bug or bad hardware
Message-ID: <2834@atari.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 21:20:25 GMT
References: <4824@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:
>  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)?

Try not running any accessories, and see if the problem goes away.

There is a bug in some TOSes: if an alert comes up, and then an accessory's
event_timer call expires, and then the accessory makes a GEMDOS call, you
will get bombs when you click either button of the alert.

The original Control Panel from Atari (the one that lets you set the colors)
did in fact use event_timer and then make GEMDOS calls, so it would cause
this problem to happen.

Most accessories don't have this problem, since (A) they don't use
event_timer much, or (B) they don't do GEMDOS calls as a result of
event_timer.

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