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From: ranma@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: HD Errors
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Date: 5 Jan 91 23:58:10 GMT
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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).

Well, then write a good interface to an Amy version of fsck.  Odd that in the
Messy-DOS world, there's a TON of software to help fix trashed FS's (like
Norton, PC Tools, etc), and hundreds of thousands of these are sold to
the public at large.  I would imagine that most of these purchasers are
not hardware or developer types, and rely on using the menus to guide and
warn them on what happens.  Wasn't the Amy OS built on 'user interface'???

I can NOT use my Syquest on FFS without seeing eventual errors crop up. ALL
my Syquest carts are OFS formatted.  With 40 megs worth of anim files to
deal with, I can't afford to do it any other way!  And these wern't simple
valadation errors...these were bad read/write errors that always got me stuck
on a bad block.

I personally don't like to spend 2-3 hours with disksalv recovering that cartridge.

Believe me, if I could do my animations/playbacks/overlays/subtitling  on an 
IBM PC, my Amy would have been history looong ago.


   robert gutierrez
   NASA science internet, network operations center.