chymes@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) (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.
bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) (12/15/89)
In article <1989Dec14.063253.29855@csmil.umich.edu>, chymes@csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes: >DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!! Why not? > Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, >IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!! Did you read the lengthy documentation file that came with it, first? >Mark Rinfret, if you see this, > FLAME ON.... >ARRRGHH!!!!! GRRRR!! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( > FLAME OFF... I can understand your excitement at the munging of your hard drive, but I use MRBackup and have not had any trouble yet -- nothing like this. I suspect you are just not fully aware of the operation of MRBackup -- (I'm not sure I am, really, either :-). Give Mark a break; his program's ok, and I'M sure he'd be more than glad to help you with your problems if you'd just ask... (he's really a nice guy). However, since you posted this, I imagine you'll be hearing from him here pretty soon anyway... +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Jeff Bevis | "But I don't like spam!" | | bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu | Give me Amiga or nothing at all. | +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) (12/17/89)
bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes: >chymes@csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) writes: >>DON'T use MRBackup of fish disk 270!! >Why not? Because ... >> Heh Heh Heh. MRBackup not only crashed every time I tried to use it, 5 times, >>IT GOD DAMM TRASHED MY FU*&*%$ HARD DISK!!!!! > >I can understand your excitement at the munging of your hard drive, but I >use MRBackup and have not had any trouble yet -- nothing like this. I >suspect you are just not fully aware of the operation of MRBackup Well, I recently switched from Matt's Backup program to MrBackup for the simple reason that I _love_ the technique used by MRBackup, that of creating a similar directory tree and compressing the files. Makes for much quicker restores of one of two files. But, the program makes me nervous (ask my officemate: I wouldn't let him flip screens and use VLT while it was backing up! ) ... why? For the reasons expressed above: it crashed a number of times. They were fairly consistent, too. - flipping screens with DMouse would eventually hang my machine when the MRBackup screen came up. This has NEVER happened with DMouse before. - Using the utilities sometimes caused it to crash. I'm using the newest version that came across the net. All in all, I like the program. But, it seems to be a little flakey in the "multitasking nicely" area! Blair -- -- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student ) -- bmacintyre@{watcgl, watdragon, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} -- Date, verb: prearranged socializing with intent.