paulc@hpsad.HP.COM (Paul Christensen X3073) (04/17/91)
I have a large ( 700Mbyte ) scsi hard drive hooked up to my amiga 3000. Funny - If the slightest thing goes wrong - ie. a guru - my harddrive will develop errors. Once I got a 'unvalidated disk' error. Another time, the system would just crash. Is this normal Amiga behavour? I expect that the system would not eat my harddisk, even if it had a software error while writing to the disk. It should ( i would expect ) give me an error concerning that file that was being written to, but not a complete partition error! Is there a magic solution for the unvalidatable error? Or is there a way to add layers of 'safety' to my data? Do others have this problem? Thanks, all Paulc |-------------------------------------------------------------| | A3000 - The computer for the Future and Beyond.... | |-------------------------------------------------------------| | paulc@hpsad.hp.com | I used to have an atari! | |-------------------------------------------------------------|
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (04/27/91)
In article <12870003@hpsad.HP.COM> paulc@hpsad.HP.COM (Paul Christensen X3073) writes: >I have a large ( 700Mbyte ) scsi hard drive hooked up to >my amiga 3000. Funny - If the slightest thing goes wrong - ie. a guru >- my harddrive will develop errors. Once I got a 'unvalidated disk' error. >Another time, the system would just crash. > >Is this normal Amiga behavour? I expect that the system would not eat >my harddisk, even if it had a software error while writing to the disk. It >should ( i would expect ) give me an error concerning that file that was >being written to, but not a complete partition error! Well, any crash when writing to disk can skrag the partition (or rather the partition won't validate - all the rest of the info will be readable, except the file _or_ directory being written to. It is possible to lose the entire partition if you crash in the middle of a write to the root block, but very unlikely.) Note these are not bad block errors, they're "something in the FS points to a garbage sector" errors. Disksalv and even diskdoctor can repair or restore things like this to some degree. There's a close to 100% way: I can edit filesystems (with disked) live. Send plane & hotel tickets, plus a fully-paid 2-week vacation in the bahamas, and I'll come and fix your disk. (That's a joke, guys/gals...) >Is there a magic solution for the unvalidatable error? Or is there a way to >add layers of 'safety' to my data? Do others have this problem? Avoid broken programs while writing to disk. 1/2 :-) -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)