[comp.sys.amiga] Hard disk hell.

dbuchtal@math.lsa.umich.edu (Dave Buchtal) (02/10/90)

I just made yet another trip to hard disk hell.  My configuration
is A500, A501, Supra 30Meg w/ 2Meg memory upgrade, ARP, QMouse
and Handshake.  I ran Snap and tried to Snap a block from Handshake
into a mail message I was sending out.  I was having some trouble
getting the block "just so", and in the process of key pressing,
a stream of "off center" characters got sent to my CLI, which was an
AShell.  It sent about 5 lines of characters, which appeared on the
screen to be question marks.  My hard drive started to spin.  And
spin.  Finally, after about 30 seconds, it was done, and done
for good.  I now have more R/W errors on that drive than I could 
possibly count.  Could someone please tell me WHY this happened, and 
should I throw Snap into that bit-bucket circular file I normally 
reserves for Viruses?  Oh well, off to delete those 23 copies of 
Empty.info in my root directory....

Dave Buchthal