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- From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Validation problems under 2.1
- Keywords: amiga, harddrive, validate, errors
- Message-ID: <15978@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:30:34 GMT
- References: <ddosch.727619900@faatcrl>
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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- In article <ddosch.727619900@faatcrl> ddosch@faatcrl.faa.gov (David J. Dosch) writes:
- >After my recent conversion from OS1.3 to OS2.1, I've been having
- >periodic harddrive problems.
-
- >OS2.1 won't let you delete anything from a disk that shows 0K free,
- >or that isn't validated. (My Amiga shows 0K free when these errors
- >occur, even though there was over 70Meg free!).
-
- Well, I think the 0K free is a symptom, not the problem; I filled a partition
- up yesterday under 2.1, and I managed to delete some files with no trouble.
-
- > Last night, while using A64 to read a file from a C64 drive to my Amiga
- >it hung up leaving me high and dry (and my disk unValidated).
- > Does anyone have an idea where I can a utility to recover from this
- > Unvalidated status?
-
- Well, usually if you leave the machine alone for several minutes it'll
- revalidate the disk - it can take several minutes for a big partition though;
- That caught me out some time back; I'd been rebooting before it had time to
- finish, then I went off for a coffee and it had sorted itself out when I got
- back.
-
- (A2000/2.1/Gvp33MhzCombo/1G in several 100M+ partitions/SCSI tape).
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