hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) (05/30/90)
I asked this a week ago in c.s.a.t and got no reply so I'm asking it here... Whilst moving a file on my hard disk I got a write error. It seemed to go away after I hit "Retry," but upon a later reboot my hard disk tried (and failed) to validate. An error requestor was put up saying (something like): "Key 180840 already set." I know which file caused the error, but I cannot alter it (eg: erase it) 'cause AmigaDOS won't let me touch an unvalidated disk. So I ask, is there anything I can do short of backing up the entire disk and reformatting? And what is a AmigaDOS "key" anyway? I'm up for some low-level AmigaOS hacking if necessary... Thanks much... --Lee "Nothing is more disorginized than Calvinball!" -- Calvin & Hobbes hunt@spot.colorado.edu ...!ncar!boulder!spot!hunt
rick@tmiuv0.uucp (05/31/90)
In article <21665@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hunt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) writes: > I asked this a week ago in c.s.a.t and got no reply so I'm asking > it here... > > Whilst moving a file on my hard disk I got a write error. It seemed to go > away after I hit "Retry," but upon a later reboot my hard disk tried (and > failed) to validate. An error requestor was put up saying (something like): > "Key 180840 already set." > > I know which file caused the error, but I cannot alter it (eg: erase it) 'cause > AmigaDOS won't let me touch an unvalidated disk. So I ask, is there anything > I can do short of backing up the entire disk and reformatting? And what is > a AmigaDOS "key" anyway? I'm up for some low-level AmigaOS hacking if > necessary... > > Thanks much... > > > --Lee > "Nothing is more disorginized than Calvinball!" -- Calvin & Hobbes > hunt@spot.colorado.edu ...!ncar!boulder!spot!hunt Well, yes, backing up and reformatting is one way. Bit of a pain, though. You need to get a program such as DiskZap or Sectorama and kill the file that way (well, actually, you'd kill the bad key and its relatives). You can get either of these programs from CompuServe or Bix or one of the other networks. Heck, they're on Fish disks, too. Possibly one of the archive sites would have it. Good luck! -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. / [- O] Rick Stevens (All opinions are mine. Everyone ignores them anyway.) \ | ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------| | V | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick (<-- Work (ugh!)) | |--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop (<-- Home Unix (better!)) | | uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2 (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!) | \ 75006.1355@compuserve.com (CIS: 75006,1355) (<-- CI$) / `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' "I was Caesarean born. When I leave the house, I use the window." - Steven Wright