Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!olivea!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Get a FREE game : File trashing on HD (again..) Keywords: hard drive, game, free Message-ID: <315@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 90 12:38:52 GMT References: Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 30 In article kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) writes: > ... I find it difficult to blame the hard drive because it has been >checked and re-checked at several different places. My only alternative >is that some or all of my Commodore equipment is bad or buggy. You gave a very complete list of all steps taken. But I miss one very important in these days: Check for virus! Especially the "DASA" virus is told to write garbage to random sectors on floppies and HDs. Just use one of your disk monitors and scan your disk for the string DASA. You tell you have also some games installed to your HD. Games are good candidates for bad programming. Perhaps one of these doesn't know the FastFilingSystem and corrupts some vital information? Could you find any coincidence between using a certain game (or other software) and those trashed files? (BTW, DPaint III under 2.0 on an A3000 gives you very corrupt files after saving. Itself can read those files, but no normal IFF viewer can, and a disk analyzer finds totally corrupt block chaining pointers in the OFS data blocks on a diskette.) So, my simple advice is, look also after your software that may harm your disk. One last thought: Please check that you have the newest version of FFS, there were changes during the last years :-) (But I think to remember that you only could run into real problems with disks bigger than 600 MB, or am I wrong?) -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ rutgers!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk