Path: utzoo!censor!geac!alias!sapporo!kpicott
From: kpicott@sapporoalias.UUCP (Kevin Picott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: An original hard drive problem
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.125557.1474@alias.uucp>
Date: 9 Jul 90 12:55:57 GMT
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Reply-To: kpicott@sapporoalias.UUCP (Kevin Picott)
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After a recent repair and reformatting of my hard drive (320M SCSI) I was doing
a restore from my last set of backups when a funny thing happened. 
After reading
an unobtrusive set of files the backup program (Quarterback) all of a sudden
believed that the disk was full!!  This was after about 30M had been
restored to
a 100M partition.  When I open the window for the disk the E-F meter
shows it to
be about 1/3 full, the correct amount.

Conjecture:  The mountlist is altered from 15 heads (which it has) to 5 heads,
with all of the appropriate sector renumbering.  This 3:1 ratio which occurs in
both cases (15:5 heads, 100:30 M restored) seems to indicate some sort of
relationship between the two.

Do any of you hard disk geniuses have a more detailed idea of what might be
happening?

-- Socrates --