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From: chanson@isis.cs.du.edu (Chris Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: HD Errors
Summary: Just deal with it, eh? ;)
Keywords: FS, FFS, OFS, (NFS? NSF?), Sectorama, DiskX, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.210608.14729@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 21:06:08 GMT
References: <cbUFsB200VIFFNxVlN@andrew.cmu.edu> <37492@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan2.190655.15790@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jan3.141624.25450@forwiss.uni-passau.de> <1991Jan3.230319.3648@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <17128@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: chanson@isis.UUCP (Chris Hanson)
Organization: We're not, yet.M
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In article <17128@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>
>	Another point to realize is that most amiga users wouldn't know what
>to do with an fsck-equivalent.  For non-simple problems, you had better have
>at least a modicum of knowlege about what a FS is (ditto on Unix - imagine
>you sterotypical person who uses Unix for word processing trying to deal with
>a non-simple problem reported by fsck).  Unix does have more redundancy in
>their FS, though that has negative effects on speed, and the inode/data 
>partitioning may help some, though it adds some annoying limits at times.

  Good point, there. And you see this echoed back onto AmigaDOS: If you
have a good tool (fsck on Unix, DiskX or Sectorama under AmigaDOS), you
can certainly make a go at psychoanalyzing your drive. My Palomax HD
occasionally gets itself slightly spammed during developement, and I
have only had to reformat it once. If you can determine for yourself
what the problem actually is, it is often no trouble at all to go and
twiddle with DiskX and cure your partition's mental problems. ;)

   Even the old 1.3 weirdness of let's-move-a-directory-into-one-of-its-
children could be solved with a quick boot of DiskX. Though I thank
thee ye merry folks at Commodore-Amiga for fixing that in 2.0. Less
things to worry about. Now if ye'd just toss those nasty hash tables...
<grin>
  

>Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
>{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
>The compiler runs
>Like a swift-flowing river
>I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)

   Beautiful quote. Consider my one hand clapping.
 
     Chris - Xenon


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