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REPORTING PROBLEMS
(Updated 7/25/95)
If you experience any problems reading files off this CD-ROM, please read
this entire file and try all the suggested tests before contacting us for
help. We will be happy to try to resolve such problems once you have tried
the suggested tests and gathered as much information as possible about your
problem.
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CD-ROM DRIVER SOFTWARE
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Since beginning CD-ROM distributions, we have tested many different CD-ROM
driver packages (but not all of them), and found problems with many of them.
The distributers of the software have been very responsive about fixing any
bugs found, so current versions of CD-ROM drivers from third party vendors
should work fine. We strongly suggest that you stay current with the latest
version of whatever drivers you are using.
To see if your driver is capable of correctly reading every file on this
CD-ROM, run the following test, which may take between 2 and 24 hours
depending upon what software you are using, the speed of your drive, what
controller card you have, what CD-ROM drive you have, etc, etc.
cd FZFAUG95:
stack 100000
brik -Cb CRCLIST or brik -Cb CRCLIST >ram:logfile
You can find copies of the brik program for Amiga, PC, and UNIX under the
BRIK directory on this CD. If you are on an Amiga, be sure that you have
arranged for brik to be in your command search path and for ixemul.library
to be found in your LIBS: assign path.
The test should run with no output to either the screen or the logfile, as
the case may be. If brik fails to find or correctly read any file on the
CD-ROM, it will generate a line of output giving the file name and an
appropriate error message. If you do get errors, we suggest sending the
list of files that have problems to the supplier of your CD-ROM software,
and inquire about an update.
In order to verify that the problem really does lie with the software driver
you are using, we suggest that you also try the freely distributable
AmiCDROM driver. An lha archive of version 1.15 can be found in the
BRIK/AMIGA directory. This is one of the packages that we test every CD-ROM
with, so we know that this driver should work and read the entire CD-ROM
with no errors. If it does not work, then your problem is most likely with
your CD-ROM drive or you have a defective disk. Actual defective disks are
quite rare, so that should be the last thing you suspect.
If you do contact us to report a problem please include as many relevant
details about your hardware and software configuration as you can, and in
particular, what versions of the driver software you have tried.
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REPORTING PROBLEMS
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If you have problems running some program on this disk, or find bugs in a
program, you should report these problems to the author of the program, not
to us. It is very unlikely that we will be able to help you with such
problems.
Also, we generally have no more additional contact information for authors
than what is already provided on the CD-ROM, so please don't send reports to
us asking us to "pass them on" to the author.
In summary, please only report problems to us when it seems like we are the
most obvious people to deal with them. The address for reporting problems
to us is:
Amiga Library Services
610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18
Chandler, AZ 85224-3687
U.S.A.
You can also FAX them to us at (602) 491-0048.