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From: mathew@mwowm.mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeoDesk 3.01 question/bug?
Summary: Beware of tricksy formatters
Message-ID: <A0b1ook6@mwowm.mantis.co.uk>
Date: 3 Mar 91 01:12:00 GMT
References: <1184@exua.exeter.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
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In <1184@exua.exeter.ac.uk>, Scott McIntyre writes:
> NeoDesk in A: and some other disk in B:, if I play around with something
> in B:, then quit to the desktop, and close all the windows for B: then
> eject the disk and put in another one, then double click on B:, it seems
> to read from the disk (light goes on) but displays the OLD B:'s directory,
> or sometimes it just shows up a bunch of files with garbage characters
> for filenames.

What did you use to format the disks?  If you use some super deluxe whizzo
formatter, it's possible that the formatter doesn't put a proper volume
serial number on the disk, and that the machine therefore didn't notice
the disk had been changed.


mathew