cohn@ucbvax.UUCP (03/31/87)
I just experienced a strange sort of disk crash recently and I wondered if anyone else out there has experienced the problem. I was developing some software that bombed (of course) and somehow triggered the writing of bad data to my Master DIrectoy Block. Yikes! Well, as the confident, optimistic person that I was, I hadn't backed up my 30Meg SCSI HD from Peripheral Land. Apparently, not only was my master directory screwed, but so was one of the 640 cylinders! Question: How can a software crash cause a whole cylinder to physically go bad? I called Peripheral Land, and was greeted by a lot of "sorries" and "there's-nothing-we- can-do's" so you might as well "reinitialize your disk." Yikes! Is there any good reconstruction software for SCSI's available besides Scavenger and Disk First Aid? Both of those programs couldn't stand the heat. If you have had a similar problem with hard disk crashes, I'd be interested. Ted Cohn ARPA: cohn@cory.berkeley.edu
jmb@sgi.UUCP (04/02/87)
In article <18095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, cohn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Ted Cohn) writes: > I just experienced a strange sort of disk crash recently and I wondered > .... I called Peripheral > Land, and was greeted by a lot of "sorries" and "there's-nothing-we- > can-do's" so you might as well "reinitialize your disk." Yikes! > > ... > > Ted Cohn > ARPA: cohn@cory.berkeley.edu Just a side note on Peripheral Land. I've had a SCSI disk and streaming tape from them for about a year now. While their hardware seems allright, their programmers couldn't program themselves out of a paper bag. In addition, I've found their support small to non-existent. I'd recommend to anybody considering buying a product from them that you find somebody who'll sell you a cheaper disk with decent software support. Note that Peripheral Land doesn't bother to tell you prices in their ads - just remember "expensive". Jim Barton From the UNIX asylum at SiliconGraphics, Inc. jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb
mikep@amd.UUCP (04/04/87)
In article <18095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, cohn@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Ted Cohn) writes: > I just experienced a strange sort of disk crash recently and I wondered > .... I called Peripheral > Land, and was greeted by a lot of "sorries" and "there's-nothing-we- > can-do's" so you might as well "reinitialize your disk." Yikes! > > ... > > Ted Cohn > ARPA: cohn@cory.berkeley.edu I messed up the desktop on my Jasmine 20 pretty bad the first day I had it. Being relatively new to Macs I was clueless as to what to do. Called Jasmine's tech support line the next morning at 9:00 and had the disk back to life in 10 minutes. They were very patient even though it was clear that I didn't know what I was doing. Mike