dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) (03/23/90)
Well GS/OS is getty more scary. It ate the second partition's main volume directory block. I was using Orca shell to delete some files out of a sub-directory, and all of a sudden the /hard2 may be damaged box came up, and /hard2 vanished. There was a little garbage in the subdirectory (either from APW C's buggy library, or GS/OS itself), but that shouldn't have caused GS/OS to eat /hard2. All that was left in the volume directory block was a managed file entry.. I edited the volume block up to prodos 8 standards, so p8 would at least recognize the volume, but GS/OS still refused to recognize the volume, so this leads me to the main question.. What does GS/OS use all those reserved fields for in the directory entry? I realize that p8 isn't checking too much, but if p8 will accept it, with absolutely no problems..... GS/OS should at least mount the directory.. Buggy OS/shell programs are fun! UUCP: {rosevax, crash}!orbit!pnet51!dougm Compuserve: 70611,2215 ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!dougm@nosc.mil ALPE: DougMac INET: dougm@pnet51.cts.com GENIE: D.MCINTYRE1