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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Hard drive recovery
Message-ID: <18dc2e3c.ARN0bf2@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 08:22:20 GMT
References: <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp>
Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
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In article <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp>, lhotka@incstar.uucp writes:

> [...], the Amiga crashed and when it tried to reboot it found that DH0:
> needed validation.  About 3-5 seconds after beginning hard drive access the
> Amiga gurued...  This happens every time it tries to access DH0:

I had the same problem a few weeks ago with a FFS partition. I took
an older version of the FastFileSystem: ffs 36.35 (20 Sep 1990) and
rebooted. After I was able to access the partition without hanging
or guruing, so format!
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