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From: seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Crashes and compatibility on the IIci
Summary: It's WDEF.
Keywords: FDHD drive, IIci
Message-ID: <608@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:34:58 GMT
References: <597@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Reply-To: seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
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In article <597@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler) writes:
>
>  I am now a proud owner of a Mac IIci, and though I have most applications
>working or classified as incompatible, I am still experiencing some puzzling
>system crashes and hangings. ...
> ... The common thread to the problems seems to be the presence of
>a floppy in the FDHD. There doesn't seem to be any other common point. The
>symptom is that seemingly innocuous actions such as clicking once on an icon,
>trying to close a window, or other basic finder actions cause the system to
>either freeze or display a rapidly blinking empty default debugger dialog box.
>The other symptom is that sometimes inserting a disk freezes everything except
>cursor movement.

Well, as Chris Johnson of Gatekeeper fame astutely recognized, it was WDEF.
I of course feel violated. To those of you who thought the symptoms illustrated
weaknesses in the ci, it seems that since the ci is just a baby, perhaps it
was less resistant to the bugs going around (bugs in the bugs being the worst
kind!).

Let me join in the accolades for the fine work being done by those who are
"fighting the good fight".

Edward Seiler
ST Systems Corp.
Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 635
Greenbelt, MD 20771
seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov or seiler@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov