[iyonix-support] Re: *Verify query
- From: David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:52:35 +0100
On 12 Aug 2011, at 07:53, David Pitt wrote:
>
> On 12 Aug 2011, at 07:41, Andrew Pinder wrote:
>
>> In message <5201476ee1Paul@xxxxxxxx>
>> on 11 Aug 2011 Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <4E4449B1.3040101@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> *ADFS:Verify 4
>>
>>> No, total freeze again. No Alt-Break possible, only a reset.
>>> Not that I bother - I never used the *verify command during the 25 years of
>>> my RISC OS citizenship, and I probably never will use it again.
>> I got "freeze" from a Task Window. The mouse did move but the clock
>> was not being updated. Alt-Break did eventually work but there were
>> filecore errors so I did a shutdown. I've only ever previously used
>> *Verify outside the desktop - hit F12 - and that has just worked fine.
>
> *verify "appears" to freeze the Iyonix here too. I rather think that is an
> illusion, *verify single tasks, even in a task window, so while it is running
> it takes over the machine. That's the theory, recalled, possibly
> inaccurately, from last time this came up.
>
> I have left the *verify running to see if it does return, the disc light is
> on so something could be happening. In any case it will take a while with a
> 120GB drive.
>
> For our convenience a fully multi-tasking tool is provided on the drive menu.
>
> I will report back (much) later.
*verify has now returned, with a rather pleasing 'OK'.
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David Pitt
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