Re: IIgs hang problem

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <31FA1A4C.1B71@worldnet.att.net>,
John Fila  <johncfila@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up a IIgs to run Writeaway on a single 3.5 diskette 
>machine. All seems ok untill I try to save my document.  The system has 
>lots of disk activity and after several seconds, ejects the disk.  

   Haven't heard of that word processor. Hremes/Shadowwrite is a good
NDA word processor program that's done fairly well.

>The system then hangs up with the disk red light on showing that its 
>attemoting to access the drive.  If I reinsert the diskette the drive 
>again is accesses several times and again the diskette is ejected.  This 
>will go on indefinely.  Running v5.0 and have everything on one 
>diskette.  I have replaced the "start" folder with Writeaway in order to 
>save space. I don't think the problem is related to that.  
>The file Write never completes. Suggestions anyone?

   It's either WriteAway or your system disk. Try replacing one or both.

Nathan Mates



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