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- {subhead}Hints and Tips{def}{p}
- Article by Mark Tierno
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- Floppy Disk Drives:{p}
- Have an A4000 and trouble with inserted disks? Keep getting bad or
- unknown disk with every other insert? Simply use Diskchange (comes with
- the OS) to have the system re-read the disk and all will be fine. I
- put it on a menu option myself, though a hotkey will do as well.
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- Also, if you have a second disk drive and it's not an original Chinon
- drive, then it's probably one of those PC drives with a hardware hack at
- the rear. These types are unreliable and can actually mess up a high
- density disk on a write. Use your High Density disks in the original
- Chinon drive only.
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- Voyager:{p}
- The most recent version of Voyager seems more crash prone, but a
- completely new re-write is on the way. In the meantime you may want to
- go back to an older version, as I've found that not even the likes of
- CyberGuard will stop Voyager from bringing down my system when it really
- wants to.
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- New Hard Drives:{p}
- We all know that the Directory Caching option can be useless or
- downright dangerous when used on modern harddrives as they now all come
- with their own on-board cache. But, beware also of other programs that
- might use their own form of caching, including some emulators that I
- suspect might be culprits.
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