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From: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Diskfit floppy problems?
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Date: 13 Jun 88 05:36:47 GMT
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In article <56259@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Anyone seen this? I just spent a few hours upgrading one of my Mac's with a
>bunch of new stuff and made major changes to the System Folder. When I went
>in to back up the changes with DiskFit (release 1.4.1) it kept hanging while
>trying to load in floppies from the backup set.
>
>Reading/writing floppies at the finder level is no problem. Neither is

>Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

What kind of hangs?  I've seen DiskFit get into a (seemingly) endless loop
while accessing the disk.  My only solution is to interrupt the backup, 
start it again, and tell DiskFit that the disk is missing when it gets to
it the second time.  This causes it to format a new disk to replace the 
original. When DiskFit asks for a new disk to format,  I just put the original
disk back in and all is OK.  I've run Disk First Aid on the disks it hangs
with and it reports no problems, so it appears DiskFit is to blame.

Anyone else see this or are Chuq and I the only lucky ones. (The only thing
worse than a bug is an intermittent bug...)
 
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