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From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: "Key 147212 is bad or unusable"...
Message-ID: <90.03.06.10.04.25.416@ckctpa.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 13:34:25 GMT
Organization: Impossible!
Lines: 34

First of all, to anyone who replies, "Has comp.sys.amiga been broken up
into subgroups yet?"  (I don't have a news feed although I can post
articles :-)

And the _REAL_ question:  What causes the above (see Subject line) message,
and what is the easiest way to fix it?  (I guess that's really two questions,
huh?)

I've had this problem 3 times in the last week after a system crash while
compiling.  I've examined DiskSalv 1.42 but it doesn't fix the filesystem
in-place.  FixDisk won't even let me select the DH2: partition (and I'm not
sure I want to -- the author says he hasn't tested the program on partitions
larger than 4068 blocks and my 155MB drive has just a few more than that).
DiskX 2.2 looks promising but I don't know enough about the directory
structure to know how to find this "invalid key".

If you respond, get as technical as you like in your explanation.
I have a pretty in-depth background on Un*x machines, and I think I can
handle it.  Just please use e-mail!

Aside to Dave Haynie:  So Dave, any in-place option on D.S. for this?
Another Aside to Steve Tibbett:  And how about DiskX, Steve?  How do I do it?

Thanks to all you folks that spend time writing these recovery packages!
They've saved my skin more times than I care to think about.  (sigh) Now
if only they could recover those program I haven't written yet ;-)

Now to check those local BBS's to see if there's an updated version to
any of these disk utilities...
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