Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!udel!mmdf From: jesup%cbmvax.uucp@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Self-repairing SCSI disks! Message-ID: <4393@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:00:09 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 27 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7243; Fri, 30 Sep 88 23:30:01 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Fri, 30 Sep 88 23:29:59 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa16818; 30 Sep 88 20:13 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa16757; 30 Sep 88 20:11 EDT From: Randell Jesup Subject: Re: Self-repairing SCSI disks! Message-ID: <4909@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 21:12:39 GMT Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <12840@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >Yeah, why is it that duplicating EMPTY from the workbench is so flakey? >It doesn't crash my system (with 33 Meg drive) but the system freezes >for about 10 seconds and the drive light comes on for a long time. It >can't take that long to just make a new directory and copy the icon. Known "bug". WB is allocating most of the system memory in small chunks, then releasing it. Does not cause a crash under normal conditions, just takes a while if you have a lot of memory. -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup