Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!oakhill!abair From: abair@olympic.sps.mot.com (Alan Bair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: How to fix HD checksum error? Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 04:33:27 GMT Sender: news@oakhill.sps.mot.com Distribution: comp Organization: SSDT, Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas. Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: olympic I was running a program last night (tar) and it went wild while untaring a file. The HD light just went sold on for many minutes, the keyboard and mouse were frozen, so I finally did the 3 finger reset. Yea, I know you are not suppose to do that while the HD light is on, but it was the only way I cound figure to recover control. So when the machine rebooted, it took much longer to come up and there was a lot of disk activity, which I thought was disk validation. Well after it all came up, a system requestor poped up with the following message: Volume Work has a checksum error on disk block 69601 I selected retry several times with no luck, so I selected cancel. Work:incoming is the directory where the tar program was running. I can still run programs, but trying to list the directory in Work:incoming always brings up the system requestor. The big question is, how to correct this problem? The info command also indicates that the Work: partition is now 99% full, here are the details: size: 92M used: 188843 free: 1 full: 99% status: validating I checked the directory listing and can find no file that is taking up the ~20MB that had been free before running the tar program. Here is the run down on my system: A3000 25/100 1MB chip 1MB fast KS 36.207 WB 36.69 Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Alan Bair SSDT Logic Synthesis, Motorola, Inc. Simulation & Test Austin, Texas abair@ssdt-oakhill.sps.mot.com