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From: mrr@amanpt1.UUCP (Mark Rinfret)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Planning for Shell 2.08M
Message-ID: <408@amanpt1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 12:43:05 GMT
References: <8801221705.AA20640@decwrl.dec.com> <1698@sics.se> <8297@sunybcs.UUCP> <6701@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: Aquidneck Management Associates
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Summary: Endless retry of read/write error

In article <6701@cisunx.UUCP>, ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
> 
> Here's what I would like to see in Shell 2.08M:  I would like it to
> respond correctly to 'volume xxx has a read/write error' requesters.
> When I'm copying a file to a disk and encounter an error, I can hit
> cancel all day, and do nothing but wear my drive out.  If I take the
> disk out, I get 'you MUST replace volume xxx in drive n!!!'  
> ...

Eric - you're describing the same symptoms that I have encountered.  I recently
posted an article with a short program that demonstrates this (and runs stand-
alone).  I believe the problem to be in AmigaDOS and not the Shell.

> Eric Kennedy
> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

Mark


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