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Oooo, question for those that might know a little more about this. I had an Amstrad (CPC6128 running CP/M) and I found that if I did cat to list disk contents
by aidos 4y ago
Oooo, question for those that might know a little more about this.
I had an Amstrad (CPC6128 running CP/M) and I found that if I did cat to list disk contents without a disk in the drive enough times in a row it would eventually list out really random contents. Anyone know what might have been going on.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoCAT would have been AMSDOS, not CP/M (it was DIR in CP/M). Not sure what was happening in that case though - it sounds like a bug, but not one I ever recall encountering!
- aidos 4y agoOh interesting. I swear it was cp/m; cat I’m more hazy on (though I feel like I didn’t use dir until ibm dos). I had to really hammer on the command, and it would actually be trying to read either the hardware. I wonder if it was actually a physical issue that triggered it.
- atq2119 4y agoSounds like whatever check that was used to determine whether a floppy was present or not had some small probability of giving a false positive. Maybe because without a floppy, the head would read random data that could pass some integrity check by chance.