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From: jwz@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: possible preferences bug
Message-ID: <310@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 13:30:27 EST
Article-I.D.: PT.310
Posted: Thu Nov  5 13:30:27 1987
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Keywords: HD crash


This happened a while ago, so my memory of it may be a little faulty, but...

I had just gotten a Xebec 20meg hard disk a few days before, and was in the
process of moving all of my files on to it.  My logical names were set like
this from my boot floppy:

  SYS:    DH0:System/
  C:      DH0:System/C/
  S:      DH0:System/S/
  etc...

So one day I ran preferences, and saved it, not remembering that it was
writing the info to the hard disk instead of the floppy where it was needed.
Well, nothing seemed to be wrong then.  But when I rebooted, at bootup it
told me that volume DH0: could not be validated.

So I did the only thing I could think of; I backed up the entire hard disk
(since I could still read from it) and reformatted it.

The next day, I ran preferences again (from the HD), and exactly the same
thing happened.  

I'm sure that I never rebooted while disks were active, and I know that my
copy of preferences is not corrupted because I have copied it to floppies
and run it successfully on them.

I haven't tried to reproduce this again, because I really don't like
spending all day reformatting my hard disk...  I get enough of that sort of
thing at work!!

 for the betterment of humanity,
 -- Jamie (jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu)