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From: mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Help.
Message-ID: <102019@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 16:12:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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	Hi, does anyone out there know of anyway to get rid of a
read/write error on a hard drive?

Specifics:
	Quantum 105 M hard drive with a Trump Card 500 controller.
	Amiga 500, 1M RAM.
	The read/write error occurs when I try to delete a certain
		directory.  I can rename it, or put things into it, but
		I cannot dselete it.  When I try to delete it from CLI
		it gives me the error "cannot delete directory not
		empty".  The problem is that it IS emptry, a DIR on it
		says ts empty, and I can delte #? from it no problem.
		The way I found out it had an error was two ways.
		1:  I tried to delete it with a disk utility program and
			got the error.
		2:  When I scanned the whole drive using Whereis I got
			the read/write error and narrowed it down to
			begin in that directory.


Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Please answer soon, with any ideas you have.

Also, if you can please reccommend and HD backup utilities, preferable
public domain.  (or inexpensive)

Rainer
mager@unix.cis.pitt.edu