Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!unmvax!uokmax!rrmorris
From: rrmorris@uokmax.uucp (Rodney Raymond Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DH0: Disk Validation Error
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.225353.24099@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 90 22:53:53 GMT
References: <32.25FF9483@alake.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Lines: 17

In article Gregs@alake.FIDONET.ORG (greg sheppard) writes:
>
>  Recently, I modified my Startup-SYS file with a shareware "vi" editor.
>The next thing I know, I'm getting a "disk not validated" error when
>trying to write to DH0:.  I can't rename, copy or write to DH0: in any
>fashion.  I'm at a loss as to what is causing this.  The only thing I
>can think of is that I wrote the file back as "startup-sys" and maybe
>the system can't find it??  Is it necessary to re-format the hard-drive
>at this point...is there some less drastic technique which will get me
>my disk back?

Something bad happened during a write to your HD. Your HD's bitmap has benn
all messed up. Run info and you will see that it says there is 0% space
left on your HD (bad bitmap). I had to reformat when this happened to me.
If anyone knows of a utility or how to rebuild Amigados file system bitmaps,
please leave a message as I also would like to know how to coorect this if
it ever happens again.