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From: boi@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Disk access errors.
Message-ID: <1921@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 19:27:30 GMT
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Recently, I decided to run B.A.D. on my harddrive. I have two partitions
set up, with one almost full and the other about 75% full. I thought
there may have been sufficient fragmentation to justify B.A.D.'s usage.
Anyway, I experienced no problems while executing B.A.D., and it even
appeared as if there was an increase in disk access speed. But, since I
started accessing programs, I occasionally get disk errors.
The strange thing though is that the programs which encounter a disk 
error while loading, eventually work if I just hit 'cancel' on the 
disk error requester that pops up. The one which really baffles me is 
DeluxePaint-III. In selecting a font, the font requester comes up and 
displays the names of the fonts; no disk errors yet. If I then 
pick a font and select 'show', I get the disk error requester. If I 
cancel the disk error requester, and select 'use', the font is loaded 
correctly and can be used in my picture. I have also tried selecting 
'show' a second time after cancelling the disk error requester and it 
successfully displays the font in the DPIII font display window. I have 
encountered another program which also displays disk errors while 
loading, but after hitting cancel everything seems to work okay. I am 
not blaming B.A.D. as yet. I thought I might solicit comments from the 
net as to why this may be occurring and if anything can be done to fix 
the problem (my system is usable this way, but seeing the disk error 
requester popping up is a real pain to deal with).