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In article <5418@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
[ Description of problem with PCcopy, etc. on A2000 with 1 3.5", external
A1020 deleted ]
>	You people have hit a bug in trackdisk that was discovered recently.
>Trackdisks' test of whether a RAWREAD/RAWWRITE command is valid is broken,
>and is dependant on what's in a random section of memory.  The memory happens
>to be set to ok values IF you have 2 floppies (almost all the time).  On
>a 1-floppy system it's usually bad, and causes a rejection of the RAW
>READ/WRITE command.

>	This bug will be fixed in 1.4 (it's in the ROM).

>Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup

I may be showing my ignorance of OS structure here, but is there any
possibility of an interrim fix using a Setfunction type patch, similar to
the way the Setalert bug was handled?  Failing that, could there be a 
patch that would force the particular memory location in question to a
valid value?

With 1.3 finally showing up after (it seems like) nearly a year, I'm
not too thrilled about being told "It'll be fixed in 1.4" !


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