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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Grumbling
Message-ID: <2393@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 88 06:41:42 GMT
References: <2058@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2060@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) wrote:
>(this hasnt been one of your all time great king hell weeks around here)
          ^^                                      ^^^^
Does that mean you're having a good week?  Happy New Year.

>I have corrupted floppy. I have been able to DiskSalv the files off it,
>but if I try to CD to it or even DiskCopy it, the machine Guru's.

The bug's in the filesystem handler (in ROM/WCS).  It's pickier than
it thinks it is.  One sure fire way to tickle it is to zap a file list
block, and don't tell the file header about it.

DiskSalv doesn't use the filesystem handler, it talks directly to the
device.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I've never liked reality all that much, but I haven't found a
better solution."		--Dave Haynie, Commodore-Amiga