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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard drive validation
Message-ID: <8197@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 14:53:08 GMT
References: <20023@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <20023@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>
>I crashed while writing to a file today (ran out of stack), and when I

>BTW, right before I reformatted, I ran diskdoctor just for laughs.  I
>wasn't expecting it to fix the drive, after all the bad things I've
>heard about it; but I certainly wasn't prepared for the complete mess
>it made of all of my perfectly good files.  It was incredible.  I

Please email details on what you did, and what happened.
Were you using the current version ?  (1.3.5)
   (how much ram did you have, what size drive ?)
What version of FastFileSystem ?
What exactly did you do with sectorama ? What version sectorama ?
   (did you check to make sure it found the root block ?)
Why didn't Disksalv help ?  Did you try it ?


We'd like to improve our software, but we need information.

(after you munge a disk with a disk editor, all bets are off...I doubt
 either disksalv or anything else could have made much sense of your
 drive at that point)
-- 
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