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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:25:53 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- Subject: my situation
-
-
- Hi all...
-
- Just wanted to fill all of you in on my current situation before
- people started getting anxious about the mint libraries at patchlevel
- 27.
-
- My system has been acting really flakey...problems with accessing the
- hard disk, spontaneous reboots, strange crashes, and so on.
-
- I think my DMA cable running to my Megafile is at fault. The
- insulation is pulled out about 1/2 cm from the connector.
-
- My disk could also use a good cleanup; the bad block table on my
- second partition is unreadable by AHDI.
-
- I've started a full backup (my last one is about 3 months out of
- date). I'm awaiting a new 88 meg removable unit from Toad, which
- should arrive in a few days.
-
- When the new unit arrives I will be reformatting my Megafile with the
- ICD utilities, which should hopefully clear up the problem with the
- bad block table.
-
- I'll then use the new DMA cable to run my Megafile, which should
- hopefully clear up most of my problems. If it does, I'll just order
- another DMA cable so I can use both drives.
-
- The upshot of all this is that it'll be another week or two before I
- start working on the MiNT libraries again. Sorry about the delay.
- I'll let you know as things progress.
-
- Patchlevel 27 is likely to be a full distribution, but will probably
- be another "internal" version as I don't think I'm going to get the
- Pure C / Sozobon stuff right the first time, since I've had to change
- a lot of the stuff that was sent to me to keep GCC from choking on it.
-
- The Lattice C version of the library is likely to be broken until
- someone volunteers to maintain it.
-
- That's all for now,
- entropy
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