Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: filesystem Q&A Message-ID: <2186@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 18 Jan 88 08:35:06 GMT References: <2060@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3128@cbmvax.UUCP> <2137@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3151@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 17 In article <3151@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: > >Most of those GURUs/Software Error requesters *are* AmigaDOS >checking the validity of those lists, blocks, and variables >it considers important, and giving up if it thinks things are >too far gone. Bringing up the Software Error requester doesn't >halt the machine...on a 2 drive system you can even save to the >other drive (after AmigaDOS checks that one, of course) Ok. I have no problem with AmigaDOS determining that a disk is to ^&#('ed up to use, but does the system really have to corrupt itself to determine a disk is scrambled ? -- "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition" richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, philabs!cadovax, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard