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Subject: Re: Nib 2.0 arrives!
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Date: 14 Feb 90 05:42:10 GMT
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In article <4218@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>I wrote:
>>>	One quirk:  when exiting, NIB instructs you to remove all floppies
>>>from their drives, or else the Amiga may crash!
>
>In article <2562@gmu90x.gmu.edu> jbaker@gmu90x.UUCP (John Baker) writes:
>>When an exact copy of a disk is made, and both disks are inserted at once,
>>AmigaDOS gets the two disks confused.  If you then eject them, the system
>>will generally crash.  This happens with most commercial disk copiers....
>
>	It doesn't happen with Marauder II, nor AmigaDOS DiskCopy.
>Therefore, there must be a way around this.
AmigaDOS diskcopy  DOES NOT make an EXACT duplicate...  It DOES happen with 
Marauder II - Try making a verbatim copy, then exiting the program, then 
waiting for amigaDOS to read both drives then eject disks...  CRASH!
The problem lies in the fact that amigaDOS doesn't expect to see two totally
identical disks.  Marauder temporarily avoids this by suspending the computer's
operation until it is done.

						John B Stelly

(Please - no Email my address is changing this week !!)