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- >In light of the fact that you're having trouble with a clean boot, I'd
- >guess either that the floppies in question that you are using have
- >some sort of problem or that the floppy drives you are using are
- >slightly out of spec. To the best of my knowledge, nobody else is
- >having this problem (although we did have one user who had weird
- >trouble under Linux that was never tracked down), which makes your
- >trouble consistent with hardware or media trouble. By replying
- >directly on this list I'm sure I'll be told if this is an ongoing
- >problem that other people are having as well.
-
- My Executor running under PC-DOS and OS/2 works like a charm with reading,
- writing, and formatting disks. No problems here.
-
- >I have been trying to get diskcopy to recreate a floppy from an image
- >file. On a real mac, diskcopy ejects the current floppy, prompts the user
- >for a new diskette, and waits for a disk-insert event. Under executor,
- >this doesn't happen, so diskcopy is not useable. Does anyone of
- >you know a workaround for that? And out of curiosity, probably more
- >programs rely on disk-insert events, how is ardi going to handle that?
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- I recall that PC-Tools, or was it Norton Utilities, no matter, one of them used to have a
- way to have the disk drive sit there scaning for new disks, and when a disk was inserted,
- it would continue the program ... I suppose maybe something similar could be done under
- Executor, except there's the problem of notebook computers having their power gobbled by a
- continually scanning Disk Drive ...
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