halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) (11/21/89)
Yesterday was a day straight from hell. I have an A2000 with a Miniscribe 42Mb hard disk, divided in 3 partitions, a 2 cylinder partition for booting, a 20Mb system partition, and a 20 Mb Data partition. Yesterday started with a hard error on the data partition. This led to a "Not a DOS Disk in Unit 1" requestor. Diskdoctor recovered most of the drive (and I had proper backups to restore the rest). I reformat the partition and the silly machine guru's on the last cylinder. Reboot. Now I get the message "Not a DOS Disk in Unit 1", only now it is refering to the system partition. It attempts to validate and mounts the drive with the name "Lazarus". Anybody out there know where it came up with this name? (Ie. have I got some type of virus?) Anyway, I wind up having to go all the way back and PREP the damn drive, mark off a bad block (the one that started the problem) and re-load *everything*. All-in-all about 5 hours worth of work. I would really appreciate any help on where the "Lazarus" label came from. My major concerns are: 1. Was it an attack from a nasty virus? 2. Is my hard drive reaching the end of its useful life, especially the media? 3. Why Lazarus? 4. What is the probability of this happening again? Please e-mail the responses. Thanks. -- Hal O'Connell Cognos Incorporated UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!halo P.O. Box 9707 VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x5933 3755 Riverside Dr. FAX: 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1G 3Z4
mlelstv@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst ) (11/27/89)
halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal O'Connell) writes: >3. Why Lazarus? Diskdoctor will name the disk "Lazarus" if the root sector of the disk is trashed, i.e. there is NO valid name on the disk. Michael van Elst E-mail: UUCP: ...uunet!unido!fauern!immd4!mlelstv