Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex
From: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: web.sh
Message-ID: <509@xicom.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 19:03:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: xicom.509
Posted: Mon Feb 29 14:03:53 1988
References: <33416@spock.uucp>
Organization: Xicom Technologies, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 27
Summary: I saw some of this

In article <33416@spock.uucp>, drh@spock.uucp (D. Ryan Hawley) writes:
> 
> My formost question is this:
> 
> Sometimes when I turn the system off it in-valadates the disk!
> Once already I have had to reformat the disk, I've only had the
> system for a few weeks.  Last night I turned the system off, 
> everything was fine, this a.m. numerous files were trashed.  I've
> become carefull about waiting for the disk to spin down after
> powering down (before rebooting), and I wait for all writes to 
> complete before shutting off the power.  I have the Amiga 2090
> controller.  Any known bugs?

I mistakenly left out the "reserved" two sectors from my mountlist. I have
partitioned my hard-disk (using an A2090 also) into 4 parts, and the last
part had the reserved two sectors missing in the file. Anyway, almost every
day I would have a corrupted partition. Since I fixed the mountlist file,
everything has been fine. Also, if your hard-disk does auto-parking, that
may clash with the auto-parking of the A2090. I turned off 'auto-parking' from
the Prep program. ... your mileage may vary, but check out these things.


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Alex Laney   alex@xicom.UUCP   ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex
Xicom Technologies, 205-1545 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The opinions are my own.