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Sudden WDSF Mac Client 'Weirdness'

1994-03-15 18:11:49
Subject: Sudden WDSF Mac Client 'Weirdness'
From: "Brett Walker (408)256-0265 Fax:" <walkerbl AT VNET.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 15:11:49 PST
Re: Note from you attached below

Michael,

>"'WDSF' Bus error 1 (or 3)", "Bad F-line instruction", "'WDSF' Illegal
> Instruction."
>
>These problems have occurred suddenly, and on more than one system. Currently,
>they have cropped up on about 10% of our Mac clients.
>Furthermore, they are sometimes corrected by a reinstall (sometimes not),
>and sometimes seem to disappear for no apparent reason. At this point, there
>doesn't seem to be a common thread which characterizes these failures. Before
>I embark on the potentially long journey to sort all this out, I thought I'd
>ask if anyone has seen this problem with the WDSF client before, and
>if they have any insight as to where I should be looking for the cause.

Is it possible that you've contracted a virus?  If you have been running
fine for a while, and its started happening on several Macs all at once,
this could be the problem.

Have you made any common updates to those Macs, something that maybe
WDSF can't handle?  I would try running Norton Disk Doctor and the latest
Disinfectant (now at 3.4.1) on those Macs.  Sometimes hardware problems
can throw the client for a loop.

I don't know of any problems like this that the WDSF Mac client has had
before.

Hope this helps...

Brett Walker
ADSM Client Development
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