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- From: Stephen Henson (CSM) <shenson@camborne-school-of-mines.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 93 01:50:12 BST
- Message-Id: <7730.9304180050@csm.ac.uk>
- To: mint <mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- Subject: Minixfs trouble and MiNT 1.05
-
- Hi Scott,
- The behaviour with minixfs 0.55 and MiNT 1.05 is to be expected (well
- the relogging bit anyway). One of the problems with many versions of MiNT was
- that floppies were assumed to be TOS, this was because minixfs ignored the
- first couple of calls to m_root to avoid it having to access empty/bad drives.
- MiNT no longer does this, so minixfs may ignore the first diskchange or two.
- You can usually get round this by an ESC or two in the appropriate window.
- Anyway minixfs 0.60 plX doesn't do this anymore and so should not suffer from
- this problem.
- I am more concerned about the emacs problem you mentioned. It would be
- very difficult to diagnose from the info you've given me so far; indeed it
- sounds like any obscure bug related to some of the performance optimisations
- I've done. Anyway, can you put the binaries that cause the trouble somewhere
- please? Failing that, perhaps you could bump up the debug level of MiNT and
- give me the details of all the trace output before an emacs crash. Then maybe
- I could send a few debugging patches to narrow the problem down/fix it. In
- the meantime I'll stare at the code a while and try to see whats wrong.
- Oh yes DON'T mail me the binaries, this system would probably crack
- under the load.
- Thanks, Steve.
-