Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Grumbling
Message-ID: <3128@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 23:17:17 GMT
References: <2060@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <2060@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) says:
> Summary: floppies too

> as long as we're talking about filesystem wierdnesses, heres one:

> 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.

> Now, I dont know a lot about this stuff, but this doesnt seem right.

Not sure what is corrupted, but it's certainly not all that weird.  DiskSalv
doesn't assume any more than it has to about the state of a disk, and as
such isn't going to crash on anything I've seen so far in the way of disk
corruption.  The DOS, however, does make certain assumptions, I'm not all
that sure just what, but if something is completely out of wack, there's a
definite possibility of the DOS crashing on it.   I suppose the DOS could
have been built to avoid such crashes by checking all the important data it
looks at, but that may have been too damaging to DOS speed to implement.

>    It's too far to put Santa Fe in my ignition, or something like that. 
>               richard@gryphon.CTS.COM    crash!gryphon!richard

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