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In this BeOS debugging story ("A Testing Fairy Tale"), their floppy disk stress tests can run all day but fail when run overnight. The morning sunlight through the office window triggered the test machine's floppy disk write-protection mechanism, causing a write failure during the test.

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue4-22....




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