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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3650.0. "info on Board Master" by VIVIAN::S_GOLDSTEIN (Steve G...DTN 847-5415 ) Thu Apr 05 1990 07:44

    
    	Does anybody know anything about a CAD program called:-
    
    		BOARD MASTER..
    
    In England it cost approx 70 pounds..a lot cheaper than 
    Pro-Board/Pro-net which cost 170 pounds each...
    
    	Is it easy to learn to use have not much knowlege of CAD/CAM
    programs.
    
    Also any Idea as to why a A1010 might be giving read/write errors on
    track 40 ( the root track)
    
    		Steve G
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3650.1Virus?MARVIN::WALTERThu Apr 05 1990 09:2415
    
>    Also any Idea as to why a A1010 might be giving read/write errors on
>    track 40 ( the root track)
>    
>    		Steve G
>

	I've also seen this on my second floppy (CUMANA). Not long
	after I was visited by the LAZARUS virus! Do you have a virus
	checker?

	The only other times I have seen problems have been when the
	system Gurus with files open on the disc.

	Diskdoctor will usually recover the files though.
3650.2Don't think it a VIRUSVIVIAN::S_GOLDSTEINSteve G...DTN 847-5415 Thu Apr 05 1990 10:0311
    
    	I didn't know there was a LAZARUS virus!!
    
    The only time I've seen Lazarus is after using DiskDoctor and I can't
    get the disk name...!!!???
    
    		Steve
    
    BTW I was warned by my friend who gave me this floppy disk that it
    sometimes corrupted the disk...Could it be the drive need setting up???
3650.3Might be softwareTLE::RMEYERSRandy MeyersMon Apr 09 1990 18:2827
Re: .0

There is a known bug in AmigaDOS (the timer.device, really) when asking
for a delay of zero seconds causes track forty of a floppy to be
corrupted.

Not much software asks the timer.device for a delay of zero seconds.
However, a few old versions of various screen blankers/mouse/window/
hot key programs trip over the bug.  An old version of the Dillon
shell had the problem too, I believe.

Re: .2

>    	I didn't know there was a LAZARUS virus!!
>    
>    The only time I've seen Lazarus is after using DiskDoctor and I can't
>    get the disk name...!!!???

Well, there is always the chance that there is a new virus out there,
but a few people in the past have falsely reported the existence of
a Lazarus virus.  The usual symptom are a few disks have mysteriously
been renamed "Lazarus."  Questioning usually reveals DiskDoctor had
been run on the disk in the past.

DiskDoctor renames the disk Lazarus after it finishes recovering it.
(Lazarus is the name of the man that Jesus brought back from the
dead.)
3650.4The program called CALL.VIVIAN::S_GOLDSTEINSteve G...DTN 847-5415 Tue Apr 10 1990 06:1711
    
    Thats intersting..
    
    I've just started to use a program call CALL which displays the
    time,what memory's left splitting it in to Fast and chip.. and also
    when the modem is used, the cost of the call to the BBS...
    
    I wonder if this might be using the timer.device and causing the
    Problem...OR I could just have a DUFF 3.5" drive mech.
    
    		Steve G