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From: gregg@cbnewsc.att.com (gregg.g.wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: HD validation error (possible cause?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.220618.4575@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 22:06:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan13.213610.16726@eecs.wsu.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <1991Jan13.213610.16726@eecs.wsu.edu>, by rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student):
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> Considering the number of people that have been complaining about the
> header corruption/validation error, it would appear that there is a real
> problem with the File System.

I used to have continual problems and frustration with having to backup
and restore my development partition.  Now, I too have moved to a
smaller partition which only requires a minimum of effort to backup and
restore.  There was a comment from one of the CA people that the
"Read/Write error" requester is only generated on a media error.  When
I diskdoctor such a partition, I get "multiple files reference block",
but after restoring (I backed up before diskdoctoring with a file by
file type backup program), not one single file is corrupted or
missing.  The data checks out flawlessly when I just read off of that
partition using my media checking program.  My personal opinion is that
the problem is in the FFS handler!

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gregg.g.wonderly@att.com   (AT&T bell laboratories)