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From: MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Trashed Disks
Message-ID: <8901221643.AA01171@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 15:12:21 GMT
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Has anyone tried the program FastDisk?  I tried it on my WB 1.2 disk, and
it reduced my startup-time by 30 secs (I copy C dir to ram).  However,
I tried it several times on WB 1.3 disks, and it never worked.  The
result was always a disk that had a corrupt directory, I believe.
Whenever I would try to do a DIR of one of these disks, my A1000 would
promptly guru.  Someone suggested it was my drives or bad disks, but I
have used high quality disks, and can repeat the error by using the above
program.  The disks will also crash computers besides my own.

Is it normal for AmigaDOS to crash just because it encounters a garbage
directory?  I don't expect anyone has a solution, but I would appreciate
an explanation of how the above guru is caused.

--> Dennis Gorrie
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