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From: prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: HD help PLEASE!!
Message-ID: <121238@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 08:26:35 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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Hi again, guys.  I'm back again, and I have another problem to solve.

This one involves an error on my fourth partition of my 100 meg HD.
It is a 12 meg partition, and I have crashed both the finder and Prosel-16
trying to copy a file from another partition to the fourth partition.
The error message that GS/OS gives right before it crashes is:
'System Error.	Cannot complete operation.  #804B'.  From Prosel, it just
goes 'boing' and doesn't have any message.  I would try Copy II Plus, but
I'm afraid of what it could do to my HD, so I'm staying clear of it.
I have verified the partition (from both the finder and Prosel-16) and
all blocks appear to be well.  I can read files from the partition, and
can write some files, but it seems like very large files (400k+) get
yakked on, since GS/OS tries to start it in the longest contiguous
segment of free space (or something like that, I believe).

Anyway, I have the distinct feeling that I have a couple bad blocks,
despite the verdicts of GS/OS and Prosel.  Has anyone had similar problems,
or can tell me what error #804B means in GS/OS-speak?  More importantly,
does anyone have a solution?  This is quite scary, considering that I
haven't made a backup since mid-September...

My setup is:  Apple IIGS Rom 01, 1.25meg Apple Expansion RAM, TWGS 7.0Mhz,
	      Apple DMA SCSI, POWERDrive 100meg HD, 1 3.5 and 1 unused 5.25.

Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Dale LaFountain
Struggling CS Major and (currently) confused GS user
prophet@oxy.edu