macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) (05/20/89)
After moving around and deleting dozens of files today (mostly using StuffIt and the DiskTop DA) I thought it might be a good idea to check the "integrity" of my hard disk with Apple's Disk First Aid. (Rarely it will find an error and will correct it.) This time when I ran DFA I quickly got an error message proclaiming that my hard disk was not an HFS volume. The disk scan thus aborted very soon after starting. SUM still reports that I have an HFS disk as does MacSnoop. And it _sure_ still looks and acts like an HFS disk to me ;-) . I've just completed a full backup so I'm not too concerned about losing any files at the moment, but I'm wondering if this message from DFA is a "warning" of bad things brewing. Can I "fix" the volume with some utility? If not, I guess I am left with doing a complete restore of the disk. By the way, I've already tried rebuilding the desktop (no effect on error message) and have not had a change in system software, etc. since running DFA in the recent past. Current configuration is System 6.0.2 on a standard Mac Plus, CMS SD-60 hard disk drive. (Oops, there was one possible change... I installed new SCSI drivers with the CMS utilities v. 5.01 recently, but this shouldn't DFA, no?) Thanks for any help. Jim -- macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) or lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu