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From: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Weird Guru...
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Date: 3 May 88 05:30:06 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
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Summary: Almost certainly due to bad disk

In article <44000001@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> schwager@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>So I did
>a copy dfX: to dfX: to see if that helped.  Well, when I rebooted on the
>newly copied disk it certainly did halve my bootup time (or so it
>seemed, anyway, it was a lot faster).  But, (and here's the weird part)
>I got a guru meditation error! 

>Now I could go in
>and try to edit the startup-sequence file on the disk that guru'ed, but
>whenever I tried to write the file out, another guru!

	This is almost 100% certainly a bad disk/bad copy.  My brother had
his WP disk give guru's and r/w errors during boot.  It turned out to be
the destination disk a a few bad tracks, and Diskcopy doesn't do a readback
after write to verify.  I'd advise formatting disks before copying to them.
(He had 4 bad out of 10)

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