Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: BAD Problem Summary: Disk cache program Keywords: B.A.D. Message-ID: <1867@nyx.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 90 21:19:00 GMT References: <2143@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1750@nyx.UUCP> <2160@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver Lines: 37 In article <2160@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> khl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kang Ho Lee) writes: >It's me again. Just want to say that I wasn't running any disk-cache program This only affects floppies, anyhow, not HDs (so far as I know, I stopped running my floppy cache program when I got my HD). >and I left BAD running on its own ( except PopCli, TrackSalve and ClickToFront >). When I went back to the machine an hour later, I got a requester saying >"Disk Corrupt. Task held...". Hope that clears up my situation. Too bad you didn't have anything running that could have told you more about the problem, like Xoper or SRT... it at least would have told you which task really died. Could have been the filesystem or the I/O handler, or B.A.D. itself. I'm disinclined to think that B.A.D. did it unless it was a problem on exit. See, while it's working B.A.D. keeps it's own record of where everything is on the disk - thus it's free to move individual blocks around anywhere it likes. So if you were to have a problem with the program during it's run, there would be no chance of recovering very much (if any) data. If there was some sort of problem on exit, then it means that B.A.D. was already finished; which makes me wonder why the disk.validator didn't manage to clear things up. Either way, I'd recommend you back up your HD before running B.A.D. No matter how safe the program is, there's nothing stopping a power failure or voltage spike, or for that matter another task locking up the machine. . <<<>>> -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Amiga UUCP node domain: bscott@vila.denver.co.us Else: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu| |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-9831| |"Don't embarrass us..." "Have I ever?" - Buckaroo Banzai | *AMIGA POWER* | `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'