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From: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP! Corrupted Disks
Keywords: This seems to be a common problem, no ?
Message-ID: <3053@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 88 04:55:22 GMT
References: <1544@edison.GE.COM> <4005@cbmvax.UUCP> <3052@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <3052@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP I write:
...
>you describe. The shell had a certain configuration in which it could call
>Delay() with a parameter of '0' and somehow (I've never bothered to
>investigate either the source in the Shell or the cause of the problem in 
>Delay, but I seem to remember Neil Katin posting something a while back
>indicating that the bug is indeed in Delay and would be fixed... sooner or
>later)
...

Talk about a dangling run on sentence. Sorry about that. What I meant to say
was that somehow the Delay(0) and the trashing of track 40 are related.
Apparently, track 40 takes the hit most frequently since it is the location
of the root block, and AmigaDos spends so much time there.

Actually, I seem to recall reading about some other software packages which
do this same thing, but the shell is the only one I've personally
encountered.


Phil
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