Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!bu.edu!mirror!rayssd!galaxia!mrsoft!mrr From: mrr@mrsoft.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What do you do about a trashed hard disk? Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 90 17:28:26 GMT References: <12518@netcom.UUCP> Lines: 39 >In article <12518@netcom.UUCP> mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan) writes: > > In a previous article, chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes: >> >>Is there anything I can do besides reformat? > >You can try all the other remmedies people have posted, but I find that I >eventually have to just bite the bullet and reformat after doing a backup. >So far, I have only had to do this once. I was able read the disk, but not >write to it. I had a recent backup from MRBackup (Thank goodness!) and I >just copied the new files to floppy by hand. MRBackup won't run if it can't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >write to the disk, I guess. That was version 3.x or maybe 2.4, so it may have ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >been fixed by now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes, this was addressed a few releases ago. MRBackup now has a CLI command line parameter or a WorkBench TOOLTYPES entry which supports an alternate "working directory". This is where MRBackup writes backup volume "context" information. By the way... Version 4.0b has an apparent problem with compression and files which expand when compression is applied (as happens with certain IFF files, etc.). The problem is due to a failure to propogate an error code to the appropriate level. I would have released a fix by now, but a bug introduced in Aztec C 5.0b prevented a quick fix (short parameters). I had to rework my entire support library and all MRBackup code modules as a result. Sorry for the delay. My recommendation is that you forego the use of compression until the release of version 5.0, which will be released in about a month (though I may release a beta before then). -- ################################################################# # Mark R. Rinfret, MRSoft Home: 401-846-7639 # # mrr@mrsoft, galaxia!mrsoft!mrr Work: 401-849-9930 x301 # #################################################################