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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: (re-post) Reading a 720K write-protected disk hangs my system
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.234908.23597@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:49:08 GMT
- References: <1339@sake.salf.ac.uk>
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- In article <1339@sake.salf.ac.uk> mrb@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Mark Burgin) writes:
- >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.
-
- As a matter of a fact, I have been having similar lockups. I think they are
- floppy-related sometimes, but the floppies are 1.44, not 720k. I also had
- OS/2 crash *hard* (system is stopped) when I tried to turn MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_
- ACCESS ON while already running the program (Telemate) in the DOS box. When
- I pressed the reset button, not only had my new Program object disappeared
- from the desktop, but all of my Application objects have disappeared from their
- folder!!!
-
- :-(
-
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