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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bugs?/Interactions? with PC-Cache and TP5.5
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.174551.15508@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Nov 89 17:45:51 GMT
References: <350@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <350@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes:
>I had a fright today. Came out of Turbo Pascal 5.5 to find only 4 files
>reported present on my hard-disk, and all directories vanished.
>
>CHKDSK showed the disk label to be 'atatatatata'
>  where 'a' stands for the character with value 084hex
>  and   't' stands for the character with value 0CBhex.
>
>An old copy of PCTOOLS 4.22 showed the entire first 512 bytes of FAT #1
>to consist of the same two byte values.  I scanned upwards as far as
>the root directory. All was correct.
>
>Scanning down again the first sector of FAT#1 now took on its normal
>appearance!! And on quitting PCTOOLS all was correct again.
>
>Has anyone met anything similar? Or recognizes what was going on? The
>things that seem relevant to me are:
>  * I have Central Point's PC-Cache installed
>  * and CED,
>  * and I twice ran out of space during compilation with TP5.5.


Sounds like your cache got confused.

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