Re: [NTLK] Warning: bug in ATA Support beta releases & about RC1

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 09:02:30 EST


Paul Guyot wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed a problem in ATA Support beta releases. Basically, the
> store map and the list of the transaction sectors overlap.
>
> This bug can be the cause of several symptoms:
> * bus errors on store mounting (during transaction cleanup)
> * various kind of store errors (very likely to happen if you filled
> the store beyond 3.5 MB (or 1.5 MB if it's a 2 MB store).
>
[snip]

Well, that at least explains two of my Newton's crashes. It does seem
that below 3.5 MB (I changed to one big partition) the problems indeed
do not recur, so I'll stick to only loading one volume of LOTR at a time
<G>.

I've got 50 euro waiting for version 1.

-- 
Karel Jansens
kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be

"We're here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and we're all out of gum." (Dr. Zulu of Team Diotoir on Robot Wars Extreme)

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