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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bug in TOS 1.6
Keywords: TOS1.6  STE
Message-ID: <3046@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 12:57:37 GMT
References: <2701@erix.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2701@erix.ericsson.se> euaanu@euas20.ericsson.se (Arto Nummelin) writes:
>I bought my 520 STE in december-89 and I'm very satisfied with it, except
>for one thing. If I try to access a disk and it isn't inserted I get
>the (CANCEL)  (RETRY) dialog box. If I put in the disk and click on
>(RETRY) the machine BOMBS!!!!! (with bombs on half the screen). The same
>thing occurs if I try to write to a write protected disk, remove the
>write protection, and then click on RETRY.
> 
>Has anybody else experienced this??

I have seen things like this, but don't remember where.  I have used
a 1040 ST and now use Mega ST2.  I just tried an experiment...

	remove floppy from drive A:.
	drag icon for a file from drive A: to drive D:.
	get the CANCEL-REPLY dialog box.
	put the disk back in.
	copy proceeds just fine.

Does this sequence this give you bombs too? 
It seems to me that the times I have had trouble have been while
running application programs and I have had both bombs and program aborts.
I try to keep my drive a: loaded most of the time.

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