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From: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Did Disk First Aid Fail?
Message-ID: <993@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 18:47:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 18:47:59 1987
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I'm puzzled. Although my mother always told me never to run any 
testprograms unless something is noticably going wrong, I must admit I 
'sinned' and ran into something I think is quite peculiar.

The wonderful 'Disk First Aid' that came with my Mac SE reports an 
'unable to verify status' on my internal harddisk. The manual that came 
along clarifies mostly nothing. At least no more than the suggestion 
there might be _something_ wrong. Full stop.

Luckily, in the library of friend there's plenty of programs to check the 
status of harddisks too, so I ran his Disk Express that put its 
'stethoscope' on the disk for about 10 minutes, without notifying the 
presence of a could_be disaster. Neither did a couple of other programs I 
ran.

So, my assumption is Disk First Aid failed. Has anyone had similar 
experiences? To complete the factlist:
- System 4.0, Finder 5.4
- DFA run from hard(=system)disk
- approx. 10 megabytes of information stored
- Disk Express run twice to optimize disk-access

Cheers!