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From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARRGH! Disk Killer in 1.2
Message-ID: <10011@stb.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 87 03:36:15 GMT
References: <1539@stb.UUCP> <35591@sun.uucp> <10006@stb.UUCP> <36349@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, USA, 90402
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Ok, maybe I need to explain this a bit better.
HEX is a game. It uses dos to read its files. (High scores, saved games,
maps, etc). At one point I got a "Volume HEX: has a read/write error".
I ejected it from drive 0, put it in drive 1, put the disk that had been
in drive 1 in drive 0, (switched the two disks), hit retry, and found
that trackdisk.device had data in its buffer that it flushed out onto
the wrong disk.

No requestor was put up saying "Please replace HEX: in drive 0"
No requestor was put up saying "You MUST replace HEX: in drive 0"

Worse, the disk that I lost had the 1.2 file system on it. So instead of
losing just the file names, I lost the first block of several files
as well. (Put 1.1 file organization in 1.3 please)

			Michael
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