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- From: waveform@anna.az.com (Waveform)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: ssv5/5.2 ROM Extractor (0/1)
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 20:29:25 GMT
- Organization: Horizon Technologies
- Message-ID: <4js2n5$3uo@barad-dur.nas.com>
- References: <umcwikla.827722122@castor> <60.1854.4516.0N20DCE3@canrem.com> <umcwikla.828241010@castor>
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- In article <umcwikla.828241010@castor>,
- Tom Cwikla <umcwikla@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
-
- >>By the way what is the file copy bug?
-
- >It's a small fault that shows up when you try to copy files TO a 1541 drive
- >(or a 1541 disk in a 1571 drive) that has either 8 or 16 or 24 or 32...
- >files on it. If you try to do this, when the copier tries to update the
- >directory it will step the head past track 40 to the point where you have to
- >free it manually using that white disk that came with the drive.
- >This is not really a big problem, since all you need to do is count the
- >number of files on the destination disk and if it happens to be a multiple
- >of 8 then just go NEW and then SAVE"FOO",8
- >Then proceed as usual and everything will be fine.
-
- HOLY COW! I thought I was going nuts.
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- Who discovered this bug and where is it documented? Every now and then,
- I'd be using that file copier and then all of a sudden
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-CRASH! Big poop on the disk. NOW I KNOW! Woo hoo!
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