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From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: System Disk Problem
Message-ID: <4YL5RQy00XojQ=-FdA@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 1 May 89 13:10:52 GMT
Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Has nyone else had this problem?

Because of a bad block, I had to reconstruct my GS/OS system disk. 

Now, whenever a program, even the finder, needs another disk, all it can
do is poll the disk drives twice, and then hand, polling them foir a
split second every 10 seconds thereafter. Nothing will recover from
this. Some programs are intelligent enough to put up a dialog box and
ask for the right thing, but both Finder and GSWorks fail.

in the finder, if I manually eject a disk, and then trash the icon, it
will look for the disk, not find it, and start pouting hanging the
system. In appleworks GS, if I try to spell check a document, the
GSWorks disk will spin for a time, then it will look for the utilities
disk which I have in my hand. But again, it polls the drives in earnest
only twice, then gives up. 

I had this problem before when I first got my system, and I proceeded to
flame GS/OS for inexcusable negligence. Now its here again. What's the
deal? Help!


jeremy mereness
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