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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My disk crashing problem
Message-ID: <1260@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 20:12:58 GMT
References: <1418@agora.UUCP>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <1418@agora.UUCP>, by billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour):
< From article <3301@hermes.ai.mit.edu:, by dzenc@hermes.ai.mit.edu (Daniel Zenchelsky):
< : 
< : I've narrowed my problem down to one or more of the following programs:
< : 
< : dmouse 1.10
< : virusx 3.20
< : setpatch
< : setclock
< : Facc II
< : Gomf 3.0
< : 
< : And I have a suspicion that it's Gomf 3.0 that's causing the problems...
< 
< 	I just recently installed GOMF 3.0 on my system at work. Almost
< immediately I started regularly trashing my Workbench disk. I thought it
< might have something to do with the fact the disk was getting pretty close
< to full, but now I'll pull GOMF out of the system and see if it goes away.
< (Note that I haven't had any problem here at home where GOMF 3.0 is *not* 
< installed...)

Just to add to the confusion, I've been running all of the above
software (and a number of other things) for several months with 
no problems.

GOMF has failed to catch errors a number of times, but there haven't
been any unexplained crashes that would make me suspect GOMF 3.0 
(software only, I don't buy all their hype for the GOMF button).


I did get some unusual crashes when setting up RAD: and FaccII on my
dad's A1000. With FaccII early in the startup-sequence (before
FastMemFirst and mounting RAD:) I would see complete system lockups (no
guru, everything just freezes) after clicking on a couple of disk icons.

When I moved FaccII further down in the s-s (After FastMemeFirst and
RAD:) everything worked fine. You might be able to solve your problem by
simply re-arranging the order of things in your s-s.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland    580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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