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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:04:00 PST
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- From: "26637::BRZWICKY" <BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@CONSRT.ROCKWELL.COM>
- Subject: AmiDos ate my hard drive!
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- Awright, I just lost faith in AmigaDOS. I was running PKAZIP, which
- proceeded to lock up while writing to the hard drive. On rebooting,
- I found a bad block on my disk. It looks for all the world like the
- hardware stopped writing the block in the MIDDLE of the write! This
- happened twice, with the second time destroying the block header. This
- apparantly points to an error on Commodore's part for allowing whatever
- it was that's destroying the FORMAT of the disk, rather than just the
- data. (snarl, snarl)
-
- Obviously I'm going to delete that program, once my hard disk is back
- in order, but in the mean time, the disk-validator won't, diskdoctor
- just moves the error, and FixDisk refuses to see the problem even when
- I tell it which block is bad.
-
- Is there any way to fix it? How can anyone be expected to take Amiga
- seriously if it requires a backup and reformat every few weeks?
-
- (In spite of the ranting, there is a genuine plea
- for help in there. Somewhere.)
-
- |\ / Bill Zwicky / I multitask!
- |< / Insight Industries, Inc. / So does my Amiga!
- |/itman / BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com
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