Filecore in use bug (summary)

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1 total messages Started by J M Hicks Wed, 09 Sep 1992 16:56

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Author: J M Hicks
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 16:56

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A few days ago I asked about the "Filecore in use" bug.
Two people replied and their replies are below.  Many thanks to both.

However, I couldn't reproduce this bug on my A310, however hard I tried.
Perhaps I should be pleased. :-)

From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:59:59 +0200

If you insert ten floppies without dismounting any of them, you will
get the error message "Filecore in use", and the only way to get out
of it is to switch off the machine. To avoid thiss bug, configure
ADFSbuffers to 0. (The dircache works ok.)

Kjetil T.

From: tomc%siesoft.co.uk@shark.uucp (Tom Crossland)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 9:23:55 BST

: A recent item of news in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy mentioned a bug
: in RISC OS 2.00 called the "Filecore in use" bug.
: What is this bug and how does one recover from it?

If you used more than 12 (I think) diskettes without dismounting any after use,
it would generate a "Filecore in use" error. It's something to do with
filecore remembering disc names and things like that. I think it was more an
oversight than a bug.

Tom.

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