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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Did Disk First Aid Fail?
Message-ID: <705@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 12:45:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 12:45:21 1987
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In article <993@ark.cs.vu.nl> kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef) writes:
>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.
>
>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

Earlier versions of Disk Express did not leave a disk in a state acceptable
to Disk First Aid, even though the disk was fine for day-to-day operations.
I believe this was because Disk First Aid expects a second copy of the
Master Directory Block which Disk Express was not updating properly.  Newer
versions of Disk Express will write the second copy properly, making the
disk acceptable to Disk First Aid again.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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