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From: telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: HD Errors
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Date: 4 Jan 91 02:40:41 GMT
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In article <37492@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski)
>in <cbUFsB200VIFFNxVlN@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>	[...]
>	And thus my main partition (92MB) is unable to validate. Is there any
>	way that I can resolve this error without a reformat?
>	[...]
>
>With all due sympathy for Rick's problem, the fragility of the Amiga file
>system is one of the primary reasons I didn't bother renewing my "Developer"
>status last year and stopped developing commercial software for the Amiga.
>[The advent of SVR4 on the Amiga will, of course, change my opinion. :-) ]
>
>[...]
>
>Without a doubt, the things that are needed for the Amiga (and from CBM as
>officially supported tools) include:
>
>	1. equivalent to UNIX's "fsck"
>	2. equivalent to UNIX's "fsdb"
>	3. easy and convenient (ideally automatic) bad-block mapping while
>	   online (SCSI *can* do this automatically in case you were unaware)

Thad, how would the file system get involved in the bad-block mapping?

>	4. SCSI tools along the lines of those found at "adaptex" by Roy Neese
>	   (of Adaptec) for the MS-DOS world ... these tools are simply
>	   incredible.  If you want to grab them, I've included an extract
>	   from my /usr/lib/uucp/Systems for you to uucp them yourself.
>
>Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
>
>-------------------- begin included material --------------------
>
>#	Roy Neese
>#	Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
>#	UUCP @ {texbell,attctc}!cpe!adaptex!neese
>#		merch!adaptex!neese
>#		uunet!swbatl!texbell!merch!adaptex!neese
>#

>[instructions on how to uucp information deleted]

For those of us for which ftp is much easier to use than is uucp, how can
we get the list and description?  For example, could you give us a phone
number for voice communication or a postal address?

Thanks.

Tom