shatara@univse.dec.com (Chris Shatara, Chelmsford, Ma.) (11/02/88)
RE: GS/OS ERROR. DISK MAY BE DAMAGED . . . MORE
Last night things took a turn for the worse with this problem. The
frequency of the problem increased and when trying to do some house
keeping from the DESKTOP I would get the "...disk may be damaged"
message followed by a new message... " ...System error, cannot complete
the operation" and one of the following error codes:
$8051
$805A
$802? {Just got this this morning..forgot the last digit}
The problem follows a particular file which has somehow been corrupted.
When I deleted all but the file in question and do a directory it shows
The file as being 64 blocks long but the available space on the disk shows
only 9 blocks used.
This is the same on both the main disk and the backup disk which I made. I
first thought that the directory was damaged, but is this was the case
why would I get the same info when copying the file onto another disk.
{I'm not familiar with PRODOS file conventions}
I'm assuming that TML pascal has done something funny to this file as I
was hitting the 32K size limit (of TML) when things took a turn for the
worse and I'm also assuming that TML Pascal V1.0 has no compatability
problems with GS/OS. (I'm begining to feel this is a bad assumption).
This information is sketchy but I wasn't in the greatest mood when I found
out that I may have lost 1100 lines of source code.
More carefull info will follow as this situation re-occurs.
Hope this helps...Chris ShataraALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET (11/02/88)
This is a reply to Chris Shatara with his damaged file. Apparently the directory entry is messed up. Running MR.FIXIT from the ProSEL utilities might rescue your file.