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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help: Error Validating Hard Disk!
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Date: 3 Jan 90 22:14:51 GMT
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In <50372.AA50372@kink>, hugh@kink.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble @ Phaedra V's Amiga 2500) writes:
>>In <963@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry
>>
>>Perform a 'diskchange operation after removing the file, to cause the validator
>>to kick in again.
>
>I hadn't thought of that. Rather than "diskchange" a HD partition
>I always do a reboot when I want to validate it.  Next time, I may try
>the diskchange trick (then reboot anyways :-).

The really neat part is when you have a disk that has some seriously munged
stuff that the validator doesn't pick up, and you are messing around with
Sectorama. If you make a change, like perhaps removing a file or directory from
the directory structure, you can go to the root block, change the 'bitmap
valid' flag (the entire longword, actually), to all zeros, exit Sectorama, and
invoke DiskChange. The bitmap valid flag being zeros is the Validator's cue to
traverse and check the entire file system and to rebuild the bitmap.

-larry

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