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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra HD
Message-ID: <2121@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 17:45:33 GMT
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In <1323@agora.UUCP>, billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
>	I usually get the 'Key already set error' when I've written to
>the drive with my 2000, then written to it with the 1000 and haven't done
>a diskchange between times. I end up going in with Sectorama and manually
>fix it, but that can be a pain sometimes. There is no reason you can't
>use the Mount command on a Supra interface, SupraMount just makes it a
>bit easier.

Your message seems to be saying that you are accessing a single drive with two
Amigas. Ifthis is true, and you do a write without a DiskChange, and you then
end up with a 'Key alreay set' error, you have almost certainly trashed
something on the disk with the latest write. The problem is that of one machine
using an outdated bitmap, and writing to where it thinks it can do so safely.
Unfortunately, if another write has taken place without the knowledge of the
other machine's filing system, the bitmap will not reflect the new bitmap, and
something will be trashed, resulting in the 'Key already set' error. 'Fixing it
up manually' with Sectorama will fix the bitmap, but what of the data?

-larry


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