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Minixfs trouble and MiNT 1.05



Hi Scott,
	The behaviour with minixfs 0.55 and MiNT 1.05 is to be expected (well
the relogging bit anyway). One of the problems with many versions of MiNT was
that floppies were assumed to be TOS, this was because minixfs ignored the
first couple of calls to m_root to avoid it having to access empty/bad drives.
MiNT no longer does this, so minixfs may ignore the first diskchange or two.
You can usually get round this by an ESC or two in the appropriate window.
Anyway minixfs 0.60 plX doesn't do this anymore and so should not suffer from
this problem.
	I am more concerned about the emacs problem you mentioned. It would be
very difficult to diagnose from the info you've given me so far; indeed it
sounds like any obscure bug related to some of the performance optimisations
I've done. Anyway, can you put the binaries that cause the trouble somewhere
please? Failing that, perhaps you could bump up the debug level of MiNT and
give me the details of all the trace output before an emacs crash. Then maybe
I could send a few debugging patches to narrow the problem down/fix it. In
the meantime I'll stare at the code a while and try to see whats wrong.
	Oh yes DON'T mail me the binaries, this system would probably crack
under the load.
Thanks, Steve.