Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sns!space
From: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: hddisk.device
Summary: which is the latest, what are the differences?
Keywords: hddisk.device bugs 1.3
Message-ID: <64@sns.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 10:17:12 GMT
Reply-To: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Organization: Stuttgart Net System, FRG
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I have bought an A2090 about a year ago, and never had any problems with the
hddisk that came with the original hard disk software disk, it worked fine
with FFS, too.
Some time ago a friend of mine with a BIX account downloaded a hddisk from
BIX contributed by Andy Finkel himself. I installed, because I thought that
a new release shurely had less bugs than the old. This hddisk has also
performed flawlessly since then.
Yesterday I accidentally booted my hard disk (Rodime SCSI 40MB) from an old
disk with the old hddisk. After a few operations I got the first "Volume
Root (that's my HD) has a read/write error" requester. I clicked "retry" and
everything went fine. But whenever I read a certain file the first time after
boot up, I got this error.
I booted with the new hddisk and voila: no error.

So my question is: what are the differences between the old and the new
version? Which bug(s) lead to the developping of a new version? Why did
I get that error?

I include the information from BIX about the new hddisk. I don't think I am
violating anyone's rights doing that.

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hd34_4.arc       7552 Approx time (min):  8 at 300 baud,  2 at 1200 baud
Contributed by: afinkel  Date: Thu May 26 15:46:35 1988
ARC Latest Hddisk.device for the A2090
Keywords: $binary 2090,harddisk,
Download count: 37
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My old hddisk has 8200 bytes, the new one has 9436 bytes. I am using the old
hddisk.info (of course).
Thanks for any information!
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Lars Soltau	UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space		BIX: -- no bucks --

Here's looking at you, kid!
		-- the Medusa