Date   : Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:13:24 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: DFS Bug?

Another thought I had was that as all my machines are running Econet
there could be some sort of network interrupt which occasionally
interferes with the disc interface.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: David Harper
To:  <bbc-micro@...>
Sent:  Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:40:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] DFS Bug?

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:


> Has anybody noticed a tendency for DFS to "crash" at seemingly
> random points on the Master 128?  I noticed this a while ago, particularly
> when formatting when the drive light goes off in the middle of a disc
> format and nothing else happens until you press BREAK.  It also seems
> to happen when cataloguing discs now and again, before any
> catalogue data is displayed.  It's happened now on more than one
> Master with several different drives so I was wondering if it's a bug
> in Acorn 1770 DFS.

I have had this happen occasionally, and as you say it is usually when 
formatting. It is not frequent or predictable enough to find out whether it 
is a software bug, a hardware fault or something like a power glitch.

David Harper