Subject: Re: Capturing the CTRL-A-A
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Dante Profeta <dante@mclink.it>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/15/1998 23:50:41
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 03:37:23PM +0100, Dante Profeta wrote:
> >
> > No, it is not possible to disable hard-reset because it is handled
> > directly by the hardware.
> > On some Amiga is however possible to catch the reset-warning to finish
> > up any pending operations. I think this is the way disk syncing is
> > handled... there is a limited amount of time for the syncing opeartion
> > to be performed: the system will be reset anyway.
> 
> ... possibly in the midst of doing the sync, messing up your disk for sure,
> instead of just keeping it a bit out of date if you're lucky.

Yes, in fact it would be very dangerous.
The reset-warning should be used only to force any pending dma
operations.
Moreover it is available only on _some_ Amiga.

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  Dante_