[arachne] Re: Startup crashes (was arachne Digest V2 #244)

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:26:31 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> I have never (not once) had any files fouled up after an Arachne
> crash.  And I've never had a stable release of Arachne crash on
> startup except due to a faulty 'arachne.cfg' (no 'Nameserver' or something
> like that).  The stuff you report above is major bad news.  What
> version are you using?  I'm thinking there might be some other problem
> with your system, like a disk cache problem or something that's not
> closing files properly.


I'm still using 1.70r3. Also MS-DOS 6.22 with disk cache (set up
years ago as per advice from Clarence Verge) I try to wait to
shutdown until after I'm at the DOS prompt for awhile. But it's
possible that I jump the gun and power down before everything gets
written to the harddrive.

I'll try that on purpose and see if I get a crash.

As I hope I made clear this only happens occasionally. I'm sure it's
some quirk of my system. However there was a "lost cluster"
problem years ago that drove people bonky.

My problem is no big deal at all because I can restore working
ordr by running SCANDISK.

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