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- From: gm@germal.escape.de (Gerald Malitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc,de.comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: ParNet & nasty parallel.device
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- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:46:29 GMT
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- Hi!
-
- Every time I use certain backup-tools, ParNet hangs. Andreas M.
- Kirchwitz <amk@zikzak.in-berlin.de> told me that IsFileSystem() with
- PAR: or PRT: causes ParNet to hang. He's right. In the meantime I've
- figured out more. Each try to open parallel.device is fatal to parnet.
-
- parnet.device allocates parallelport and parallelbits from
- misc.resource and installs an interrupt on flag at ciaa. When requested
- to open parallel.device tries to get these resources too, fails, and
- returns an error. Ok so far. But unfortunately it removes the interrupt
- from flags wheter or not it was able to install it's own. In consequence
- parnet.device doesn't get notified of flag-interrupts any more - and hangs.
-
- As a quick fix you can rename or remove devs:parallel.device, if
- you have ParNet installed it is of no use anyway.
-
- Regards, Gerald.
-
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