Re: prosel 16 trashed drive

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2pvrh6$htg@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
Michael D. Porter <ee872@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
>
>
>I recently optimized a drive partition on my BBS using ProSel 16, and for
>the first time ProSel locked up the computer. I was very surprised because
>this has never happened before. Of course, every file on the drive was
>trashed. The players:
>
>Apple IIgs Rom 01
>2 megs ram
>system 6.0.1
>ramfast rev C rom 3.1
>
>Would the low amount of ram contribute to the problem?

Well I run my proline on a ROM 01 IIgs with 1 mb memory and a HS SCSI card
and I never have had trouble optimizing with Prosel 16. I've gotten in the
habit of running volume repair on it before optimizing every time though.
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