Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75609 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17363 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!fauern!forwiss.uni-passau.de!unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de!hessmann From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: HD Errors Message-ID: <1991Jan3.141624.25450@forwiss.uni-passau.de> Date: 3 Jan 91 14:16:24 GMT References: <37492@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan2.190655.15790@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@forwiss.uni-passau.de (USENET News System) Organization: University of Passau, Germany Lines: 48 Nntp-Posting-Host: unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de In article <1991Jan2.190655.15790@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes: |In article <37492@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: |>rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) |>in writes: |> |> I was testing out a program that wrote out a file to disk, in any case |> the program was stuck in an infinate loop, so I was forced to do a |> reboot, and now I get: Volume HardDisk has a checksum error on disk |> block 27030 |> |> 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. :-) ] |> |>I hope, for everyone's sake, the problems have been fixed in 2.* | | I made the mistake one time of rebooting the machine while a berserk |program wrote non-stop to a file on my hard drive. I had to reformat. But |then a disk can be corrupted by doing this on most any system. First, I don't think so (UN*X fsck deletes the file and all is ok). Second, if really all other systems has such an bad feature is this no reason that the Amiga OS have this too. | It'd be nice if C= would include some fsck program, but that they |haven't isn't going to deter my interest from programming the Amiga. The |meek possibility of this happening stresses the importance of backups. But Backup/Restore of a big partition is very anoying. Yesterday a program open two files and boots the machine. Now my hard disk is validating. But I won't format my disk! I don't have lost any data (I still can read the disk), but backup format and restore is not very nice. Diskdoctor don't help and disksalv need's another disk :-(( | Jeff Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp