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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bad floppy crashes system and Support FLAME!!
Keywords: bad stuff, maynard
Message-ID: <15928@gryphon.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 03:26:04 GMT
References: <0473.AA0473@myhut>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <0473.AA0473@myhut> gmd@myhut.UUCP (George MacDonald) writes:
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>I am having a problem with one of my floppies -

[Describes a problem with his floppye diskes wherein the system gurus
every tyme he stickes one in a diske drive]

Yes, I've had that. I've had that several times. It's probably fair to say
that everybody whose had an amiga for more than a year has had that.

The concept of sticking a disk in a drive and the system comes
tumbling down to it's knees is a difficult one to accept.

At this point, somebody will no doubt think seriously of posting:
``BUT THATS THE WAY UNIX/VMS/MINIX DOES IT !!''. Well, who 
cares. Like, it cant be fixed ?

I've posted on this subject twice in two years, and never got
an answer to my question, as to how can this happen.

My *guess* is that it's reading information off the disk then
acring on it without validating the information. This seems to be
a generally unsound practice.

If I had a magyk wand and could only have one thing fixed in the
Amiga OS, it would be this.

????

-- 
                    ``So little time, so many watches''
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