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From: rosenbergr@abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg, Computer Science, ]bo Akademi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Quarterback problem?
Message-ID: <6148@abo.fi>
Date: 7 Mar 89 16:22:12 GMT
Organization: Abo Academy, Finland
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I have had some trouble with QuarterBack. The thing is that I got a harddisk
with C't interface a while ago. Well, after using the system a while, I decided
to make a backup of the harddisk before switching to 1.3 and the real ffs.
After a while the damn thing crash (drrrrrrrrr, klonk!) Probably the driver
which locked up. After reboot and retrying a couple of times the thing wouldn't
even mount. After some hacking on the device driver I managed to get some of
what was on the disk (it IS nice to have the driver source). The drive was so
confused after this that it wouldn't even let me format it. A low-level format
was the only thing!. My guess at this time was that there was something with
the power line.

After this my driver have again worked beautifully without complaining until
yesterday when I made a backup. I made a backup successfully between these
two events (more about that later). Well I started backing up the disk,
and when almost finished the SAME thing happended AGAIN, !"#$%&*@~'
This time I was luckier. Almost nothing lost since the backup was almost
finished when it crashed.

I noticed some facts (coincidents?). 
	- The read errors on the harddisk was in the Utilities/ folder where
	  the Quarterback program was run from.
	- I had a second floppy drive connected to the system (df1:)

Also when I made the successfull backup. I did not have a second floppy
attached to the system. After my failure yesterday and recovery after that
I made a successful backup. This time I ran QB from the ram disk and had
no second drive attached.

One thing that I can't remember whether QB was writing a backup report.
I think I swithed that option off since I don't want it.

Q: Has anyone else had a similar problem with Quarterback (version 1.4)?
   I would like to know if it's mere coincidents that QB was used and 
   the read error was on the same place?

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Robin Rosenberg,  ]bo Akademi, FINLAND
Address: Finn|, 22340 Geta, ]LAND - FINLAND
     or  Studentbyn 40A3, 20510 ]BO, FINLAND
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