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From: scotth@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott R. Herzinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Prob., Boomerang ok?
Keywords: hard disk 1st aid sum boomerang
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Date: 12 Jan 90 22:56:53 GMT
References: <32814@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <32814@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> harlanp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan) writes:
>Disk First Aid says, "Unable to verify status of disk."
>If everyone
>is having similar problems with Boomerang, perhaps Boomerang is also
>trashing my disk.  If nobody else is having problems with Boomerang (a
>teriffic program) then it is more likely that Boomerang is sitting on
>a spot of crud on my hard disk.  I guess.

I had (have?) a similar problem, and Boomerang is the only thing that
I've not eliminated as a problem source.  I had installed Boomerang 2.0
(non-beta version), and not long after started crashing from a lot of
system errors.  Same message from Disk First Aid, and much anomalous
behavior from previously well-behaved software.  

I ended up reformatting my drive and reintroducing software in various
combinations, trying to isolate the problem.  I didn't manage to finish
before Boomerang was only candidate left.  At that point, in order
to get on with more productive activities, I decided I could get along
without Boomerang, so I've never bothered to confirm Boomerang as the
culprit.

I used a couple of Boomerang beta releases without noticing a problem.

Scott
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Scott Herzinger   scotth%crl.labs.tek.com@relay.cs.net
                  Computer Research Lab, Tektronix, Inc.
                  PO Box 500 MS 50-662, Beaverton, OR 97077