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- From: mrb@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Mark Burgin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: (re-post) Reading a 720K write-protected disk hangs my system
- Message-ID: <1339@sake.salf.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 10:14:49 GMT
- Sender: mrb@arrc.salf.ac.uk
- Reply-To: mrb@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Mark Burgin)
- Organization: Advanced Robotics Research Centre, Salford, UK.
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- Appologies if you have read this already, but I am re-posting as I received
- no replies and I know we had problems with our news feed when I originally
- posted.
-
- I have found a new way to crash my system when using OS2. If I try to open
- the A: drive folder (a 3.5 inch drive on my system) immediately after booting
- and the disk in the drive is 720K and write-protected, then after a bit of
- disk activity from the floppy and the hard disk, the system goes dead although
- the mouse pointer still moves. Pulse stops and nothing short of C-A-D seems
- to have any effect. If the disk in the drive is 1.44Mbyte or is not write-
- protected I don't see this problem and if I access the drive B: folder
- (a 1.2Mbyte drive) first then all is well. I haven't been able to tie down
- exactly what causes the problem to go away, but if I run an application or
- two from my C: drive first, then I don't seem to get a problem either.
-
- Has anyone else experienced this behaviour. Not a very serious bug, perhaps,
- as it only happens under very strict circumstances, but I am curious to know
- if there is anything different about my setup that is causing the problem.
-
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Mark Burgin
-