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From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R  Falkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rodime Drives, system 6.0, and font/da mover
Summary: I'd guess it's a problem with font/DA
Message-ID: <3e5e1a01.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 88 17:13:00 GMT
References: <531@cf-cm.UUCP>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <531@cf-cm.UUCP>, ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
> the problem with disk first aid by now. Howver, Ive come across a rather worse
> problem, with font/da mover. I dunno exactly how related it is, all I know is 
> that the drive makes the same nasty long head movement type noise as it does
> when disk first aid doesnt work.
> 
 <Stuff deleted>
> 
> Does anyone know when the new driver is coming out?
> 
> Ralph

I'd guess that it's a problem with the Font/DA mover.  I had a similar problem
trying to install fonts into a file on an appleshare server (which does not
support the _allocContig call to avoid fragmentataion)   A similar situation
arrose.

-dave falkenburg
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