claudio@ethz.UUCP (01/29/86)
An important addition to AmigaDos is an ignore-option when a read/write
error occurs. At the moment you can only select 'retry' which doesn't
help you very much on a damaged disk or 'cancel' which aborts
everything. An 'ignore' which sets the read buffer to all zeros and
continues as if nothing happened would be very helpful.
Here what happened to me last night:
I: type xxxx
Amiga: read/write error.
I: format drive df1: name "save"
copy df0: to df1: all ;save good files
A: ;copied 1/2 of disk, then read/write error in file xxxx.
I: ;aargh
delete xxx
delete df1:#? all
copy df0: to df1: all
A: ; copied 2/3 of disk, then read/write error in file yyyy.
I: ; How many bad files are there on this disk???
You see, if I had the possibility to tell the OS to ignore the read
errors, I could have copied all files at one time, and delete the bad
files on the "save" disk, or even restore the bad files, in most of
the cases only one block of the file is damaged. Now again see what
happened to me last night:
I: ;the file xxxx.bas is very important let's try to save this one
copy xxxx.bas to df1:xxxx.sav
A: read/write error in the middle of xxxx.bas.
I: ;Mmmh not so bad, I have a backup called xxxx.bak
copy xxxx.bak to df1:xxxx.sav
A: read/write error at the beginning of xxxx.bak.
I: ; I prefer not to reproduce here what I was thinking
With an 'ignore'-option, I could save most of the two files and
merge the good parts of either to get back my original program.
Conclusion: PLEASE ADD AN IGNORE OPTION TO THE POSSIBLE SELECTIONS
UPON A READ/WRITE ERROR !!
Claudioemjej@uokvax.UUCP (02/09/86)
Apologies to all, but I can't puzzle out a way to get this past the local mailer: Dear Ms. Banks, According to messages posted in the OS-9 SIG on CompuServe by the SIG's sysop, we should expect OS-9 for the Amiga and the 520ST some time in 2Q86. James Jones