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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Disk First Aid says "Not HFS!"
Message-ID: <634@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 04:55:59 GMT
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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After moving around and deleting dozens of files today (mostly using StuffIt
and the DiskTop DA) I thought it might be a good idea to check the "integrity"
of my hard disk with Apple's Disk First Aid.  (Rarely it will find an error
and will correct it.)

This time when I ran DFA I quickly got an error message proclaiming that my
hard disk was not an HFS volume.  The disk scan thus aborted very soon
after starting.

SUM still reports that I have an HFS disk as does MacSnoop.  And it _sure_
still looks and acts like an HFS disk to me ;-)  .

I've just completed a full backup so I'm not too concerned about losing any
files at the moment, but I'm wondering if this message from DFA is a "warning"
of bad things brewing.  Can I "fix" the volume with some utility?  If not, I
guess I am left with doing a complete restore of the disk.

By the way, I've already tried rebuilding the desktop (no effect on error
message) and have not had a change in system software, etc. since running DFA
in the recent past.  Current configuration is System 6.0.2 on a standard Mac
Plus, CMS SD-60 hard disk drive.  (Oops, there was one possible change... I
installed new SCSI drivers with the CMS utilities v. 5.01 recently, but this
shouldn't DFA, no?)

Thanks for any help.

Jim

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macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) or lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu