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Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, August 14, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 104
From: cmoore@maddog.llnl.gov
Subject: SUM bugs
Date: 5 Aug 88 17:06:56 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
I just got SUM in the mail from Symantec. In playing with it I found
two (apparent) bugs.
1. Symantec tools refuses to directly accesr numbered
larger than 32767. The only way to get at such sectors is to
figure out what file they are in or single step stafrom
sector number 32767. Somebody needs to use a long integer here.
2. HD Tuneup refuses to optimize some of my larger file (system for
instance) and gives a 'cannot optimize' error. The manual says
that this indicates that there was not enough contous free
space to defragment the file. This cannot be the case since
my hard drive currently has about 20Mb contiguous freee.
Anyone know if these are fixed in the rumored SUM update?
--
Christopher B. Moore
cmoore@maddog.llnl.gov
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, July 16, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 93
From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: SUM
Date: 13 Jul 88 16:18:00 GMT
ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk(Ralph) writes in comp.sys.mac
>Ive just got Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh, and it looks pretty good
>on the whole. However, it seems to clash badly with SFVol INIT 1.1 - when both
>are in the system folder at boot up time, my Mac II crashes. Would anyone care
>to comment on this?
>
I have talked with the author of SFVol INIT, Ray Lau, and he is not
sure yet why there is an incompatability here. He seems to feel that
the Shield INIT (which is the one what crashes, not SFVol) is making
some assumptions that are not true after SFVol loads (trap adresses,
maybe...)
The current work around (tested with SFVol INIT 1.5, but should work
with 1.1 too.) is to change the name of SFVolINIT to Vol INIT so that
it loads after Shield, and not before. If you do this, things work fine
and you have both of them running.
FLAME ON**
There seems to be a number of INIT now in the bitstream that require
them to be loaded in a certain order in relation to others. I would
just like to put up this little flame to INIT writers (hey I write them
too, I can flame!!) that they don't do things that they shouldn't, so
that we don't have to figure out which order to load things! FLAME OFF**