Re: Help please - IIgs Error 0911

[cmcurtin@r-node.io.org (C Matthew Curtin)]

psyc285@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>I seem to get a relatively frequent fatal system error - 0911
>This happens whenever I copy a large number of files - a directory of
>150 files is almost always a sure thing - and sometimes when playing
>some games - such as 'Out of this World' and 'Shanghai'.

As an aside, I've got a silly little BASIC program and some files that
allow you to play Shanghai with different tilesets besides the original
and it has a nice picture of my face (at age 16 when I put the thing
together.) Is anyone interested in getting this? If so, maybe I'll
make it pretty, pack it and upload it someplace...

>Can anyone give my a clue as to possible causes ( I have looked up the
>manual, and ADB Sync Error doesn't make much sense when I am sitting
>watching files being copied.)

This is the correct error. Used to happen to me all the stinking time until
I got a fan (System Saver IIgs, actually) for my system. I don't know the exact
low-level info on why this happens, but it is apparently an error that is more
prone to happen in a certain range of temperatures, which the computer reaches
often when cards are in the box without any sort of cooling system...
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