root@csmil.umich.edu (Zurich Operator) (12/14/89)
--------------------------------- DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!! From: chymes@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) Path: zug.csmil.umich.edu!chymes Talk about a Trojen Horse. A month ago, I had my first hard drive scramble. I didn't use a real backup program, so it took me a while to regain all my software. Now, I have completely re-installed all that software, and I deside that its time for a real backup program. I get MRbackup from ff270, and Backup from ff258. I use MRbackup 'cause it was on a later disk, and looked much more useful. Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!! Luckily, good old Matt came to the rescue and I got MOST of my stuff saved after 2 hours of backing up. I used the disk-fixer wich came with my SCSI driver, and it supposedly "RESTORED" my file system. BUT I still cant write to the drive because even after rebooting, it wont validate. How do you fix a damaged (hard) disk so that it will be validated? Is there any way to fix a disk so that it will validate? I've got lots of uncorrupted files. If I got a disk sector editor, coul I use it to solve my problem? If I did fix it, how do you tell AmigaDOS that it's fixed? I would be VERY greatful if someone could help me out of this mess. The idea of re-installing all that software and data from floppy makes me sick. Please!! Thank You. Charles Hymes Mark Rinfret, if you see this, FLAME ON.... ARRRGHH!!!!! GRRRR!! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( FLAME OFF... send me mail, some of the bugs I could identify, even if I didn't see the disk damage till it was to late. C.H.
fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/16/89)
In article <1989Dec13.225129.28751@csmil.umich.edu> chymes@csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes: >--------------------------------- >DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!! > >Talk about a Trojen Horse. > > Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, >IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!! The version on disk 279 (which has been out for almost a month) is an update to the one on disk 270. It was even documented in my posting of the contents for disks 271-282 as fixing a serious bug in the version on disk 270. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf