Hi Nico,

I sincerely apologize, but, as you surmised, your complaint last week
got lost in the flood of other mail.  I'll make sure that the debug
strings are out of the next release(due late this week).  The next
release will also reflect Allen's changes to the disklabel scheme(to
recover the "d" partition, etc.) and will make more device files by
default.  The new version is compiled already.  I just need another
day to do some full installs and boots to make sure I didn't glitch
anything else ;-)..... So, look for it late tomorrow or sometime
Thursday.


Steve Brown,
sbrown@best.com

>    Hi Adam,
>
>>The Installer was worse.  While it was scanning my SCSI bus for drives it
>>crashed the system with an unimplimented trap message that required power
>>cycling the machine. Anyone else have any problems with these?
>
>Yes, it is most probably due to the leftover _debugstr trap that I reported
>to the list a week ago:
>
>>The latest installer version I have, 1.1f, calls _debugstr when a SCSI error
>>occurs. More precise, the call
>>        debugstr('SCSI read error')
>>apparently occurs in routine "read_block2". It might be a good idea to have
>>it removed.
>
>Whenever a SCSI error of some sort occurs, this will drop you into MacsBug,
>if you have it installed, or crash your machine if not.
>I suspect that the above message did not make it to the Installer maintainer,
>but instead went into the archive unnoticed while all subscribers were so
>vigorously discussing the pros and cons of various possible email addresses
>that might lead to Steve Jobs :-)
>
>With MacsBug installed, just type command-g and the installer continues.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>          Nico
>
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