Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!870646c
From: 870646c@aucs.UUCP ('Barry Comer')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Validating disks???
Message-ID: <1389@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:59:59 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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Can anyone tell me what goes on during disk validation(?). I was using scribble the other day, when the machine locked up after saving my file. The next time I booted it up the hard disk was bad(got one of those disk not validated msgs.)
I seem to have had this problem 3 or 4 times in the last month so I returned the
hard drive(local dealer is a bit underhanded) and got a new ST-225. Same problem, I am using about 100 buffers with the hard disk, and have a 2 meg and 2090A
installed in my 2000B. My best guess is that the machine locked up before the
buffers could write to the disk and update the file table. Any ideas??
later
Barry