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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Quarterback problem?
Message-ID: <6210@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 21:47:13 GMT
References: <6148@abo.fi>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <6148@abo.fi> rosenbergr@abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg, Computer Science, ]bo Akademi) writes:
>I have had some trouble with QuarterBack. The thing is that I got a harddisk
>with C't interface a while ago. Well, after using the system a while, I decided
>to make a backup of the harddisk before switching to 1.3 and the real ffs.
>After a while the damn thing crash (drrrrrrrrr, klonk!) Probably the driver
>which locked up. After reboot and retrying a couple of times the thing wouldn't
>even mount. After some hacking on the device driver I managed to get some of
>what was on the disk (it IS nice to have the driver source). The drive was so
>confused after this that it wouldn't even let me format it. A low-level format
>was the only thing!. My guess at this time was that there was something with
>the power line.

>Also when I made the successfull backup. I did not have a second floppy
>attached to the system. After my failure yesterday and recovery after that
>I made a successful backup. This time I ran QB from the ram disk and had
>no second drive attached.

	Well, I don't know if this was your problem, but: we found a bug in
the trackdisk.device recently which caused floppies to occasionally spin forever
during heavy use.  Whether this happened was releated to the number of floppies,
particularily empty floppies, in the system.

	This has been fixed, and the fix will be part of the next version of
SetPatch released.  Some developers are currently testing it for us.  In the
meantime, keep your floppy drives full when doing lots of disk IO for less
problems (it's pretty rare/non-existant for most people, a few get hit often,
usually when backing up HDs).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup