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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Query
Message-ID: <703@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 22:34:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.703
Posted: Fri Sep  5 22:34:02 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Sep-86 02:11:47 EDT
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Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <839@edison.UUCP> dca@edison.UUCP (David Albrecht) writes:
>If you decide to 'play around' with an Amiga let me give you a word to the
>wise.  The system tasks and the disk driver are separate in the Amiga and
>the communication is not real tight.  What this means is that the task may
>prompt you to swap disks while the disk driver is still writing to it.
>If you don't sit and stare at the disk light you will take the disk out
>while the Amiga is writing to it.  I had quite a number of crashes that
>I blame on this. Once I 'trained' myself to not pull the disk until the
>light is out no matter what the screen says crashes have been extremely
>infrequent.
>
>David Albrecht

This is fixed in system software version 1.2.  AmigaDOS will not put up
a requester asking for a disk until ALL disk activity is finished.

	Regards,
		Paul Higginbottom.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore, and opinions expressed are my own.