chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/13/88)
Anyone seen this? I just spent a few hours upgrading one of my Mac's with a
bunch of new stuff and made major changes to the System Folder. When I went
in to back up the changes with DiskFit (release 1.4.1) it kept hanging while
trying to load in floppies from the backup set.
Reading/writing floppies at the finder level is no problem. Neither is
reading/writing DiskFit backups under unifinder (which is what I finally did
after half a dozen tries, re-installing Diskfit and System, removing inits,
etc, etc, etc). If I run it under Unifinder, it works. Multifinder, no.
The same revisions of software are all working on the other Mac, with no
problem, of course.
And idea what it might be? A floppy drive going flakey? A corrupted file
somewhere? Bad karma?
Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ
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read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie) (06/13/88)
In article <56259@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >Anyone seen this? I just spent a few hours upgrading one of my Mac's with a >bunch of new stuff and made major changes to the System Folder. When I went >in to back up the changes with DiskFit (release 1.4.1) it kept hanging while >trying to load in floppies from the backup set. > >Reading/writing floppies at the finder level is no problem. Neither is >Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ What kind of hangs? I've seen DiskFit get into a (seemingly) endless loop while accessing the disk. My only solution is to interrupt the backup, start it again, and tell DiskFit that the disk is missing when it gets to it the second time. This causes it to format a new disk to replace the original. When DiskFit asks for a new disk to format, I just put the original disk back in and all is OK. I've run Disk First Aid on the disks it hangs with and it reports no problems, so it appears DiskFit is to blame. Anyone else see this or are Chuq and I the only lucky ones. (The only thing worse than a bug is an intermittent bug...) ----- Greg DeMichillie lgdemichillie@deneb.ucdavis.edu ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu {ucbvax, lll-crg, sdcsvax}!ucdavis!lgdemichillie AppleLink: ST0178
levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (06/14/88)
In article <56259@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: |Anyone seen this? I just spent a few hours upgrading one of my Mac's with a |bunch of new stuff and made major changes to the System Folder. When I went |in to back up the changes with DiskFit (release 1.4.1) it kept hanging while |trying to load in floppies from the backup set. | ... |etc, etc, etc). If I run it under Unifinder, it works. Multifinder, no. I never run it under Multifinder (I am using release 1.3). It takes so much longer, because every time I insert a disk, Finder sees it and wants to create or read in the Desktop file. This doesn't happen under 'uni'finder. My guess is that DiskFit may be filling certain of your backup disks just borderline full enough that the desktop file just doesn't quite fit and something is hanging as a result. Accept this as an answer if you have a large grain of salt to go with it. /JBL UUCP: {backbone}!bbn!levin USPS: BBN Communications Corporation ARPA: levin@bbn.com 50 Moulton Street POTS: (617) 873-3463 Cambridge, MA 02238
Fabian_Fabe_Ramirez@cup.portal.com (06/15/88)
Chuq, What version of the System Software are you using? DiskFit 1.41 (not 1.4.1) is compatible with System Tools 5.0 and 6.0, running under Finder or MultiFinder. It could be a possibility that the copy of DiskFit that you are using has become corrupted and should be replaced with a fresh new copy. Are you running out of memory? If so, check the RAM cache and see if that works. Other options are to turn the Fast Copying option off, this will free some memory; as well as disabling the reporting feature. Fabian Ramirez SuperMac Technology fabian_fabe_ramirez@cup.portal.com sun!cup.portal.com!fabian_fabe_ramirez