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- From: parag@netcom.com (Parag Patel)
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX
- Message-ID: <t5lnhfd.parag@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 22:42:52 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- I bought A/UX 3.0, and while it comes with 1 year's "free" telephone
- support, I've found them to be largely useless. I called them about 2
- problems.
-
- The first is an annoying bug in the Apple CD-150 and/or SCSI driver,
- which appears to be attempting to write to the CD-ROM drive when a CD is
- re-inserted. The first time a CD is inserted, it works fine. The 2nd
- time, I get a console message about a SCSI error when the stupid driver
- appears to be trying to write on the CD-ROM. They told me that there's
- nothing that it's a ROM problem in the CD-150 and it's just something to
- live with.
-
- The second problem is still getting the SFGetFile() and SFPutFile() Mac
- toolbox calls to work from the A/UX environment. I tried everything,
- and my sample program compiles and runs fine under MPW, Think C, and
- A/UX 2.0.1. However, it always crashes under A/UX 3.0. It's very
- likely that I'm doing something wrong, but nothing I've tried works.
-
- Apple support told me that they don't support technical stuff and I'd
- have to purchase developer support to get any help for this problem. So
- much for the 1 year's "free" support. (I guess that there are folk who
- buy A/UX for something other than software development, but I can't
- imagine why since they would be better off under plain Sys7 anyway.)
-
- Feh. I've never called them back.
-
-
- -- Parag Patel <parag@netcom.com>
-