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From: kalinowi@topaz.rutgers.edu (Kalin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another visit to the guru...
Message-ID: <Feb.4.13.10.39.1989.9095@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 89 18:10:43 GMT
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>get a 'dir' of one of these trashed disks.  I would appreciate it if someone
>could tell me under what circumstances does AmigaDOS crash when doing a
>'dir' of a corrupt disk.

And another question along this vein:

I was playing with WARP the PD disk compressor. I had a nifty power
flux that stopped my machine cold. The point is that WARP really
trashed the disk, and whenever you inserted it from then on ( CLI,
Workbench, whenever) the sytem would bring up the requester:

	Disk Corrupt
	Task Held etc.		Then <*WHAPPO*> GURU!!!

Why the h*ll should my entire system crash just because the disk was
corrupt? This is not a very "friendly" way of handling bad media. I
experimented and found that any disk you partially unWARP to, is
corrupted and causes a sytem crash whenever you insert it. 

In order to recover the disk, you have to start a format from the CLI,
and wait until it says:
	
	Insert Disk to be formatted

Inserting the disk earlier results in a GURU.

Is this a bug?  It sure isn't right...