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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bad floppy crashes system
Keywords: bad stuff, maynard
Message-ID: <6956@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 15:22:30 GMT
References: <16017@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <16017@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <6933@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>Umm, then why doesn't it mark it as bad (like it does with an unformatted
>disk) instead of guru'ing and bringing my system to it's knees ?
>
AmigaDOS has decided the data structures associated with either the
device, the volume, or trackdisk itself are corrupt.  Far better
that it would have just killed all access to the drive.  (it could
have done so just by putting up the requester without a cancel option)
but it didn't do so, for no good reason I can think of.  It will
do better in the future, I hope :-)
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andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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