sxh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Ray Zimmerman) (06/07/91)
I got Silverlining 5.28 about a week or so ago (shortly after I installed System 7). I reformated my drive and set up 3 partitions. System 7 is on the first volume (1st by physical allocation, 3rd by alphabetical naming). All three volumes are set up to mount automatically. Here's the problem. Occasionally my IIci will hang due to System 7 incompatible programs that I'm checking out, and I'll be forced to hit the restart button on the programmer's switch. Everytime I do this my System volume refuses to mount. If I run Silverlining from floppy the other volumes mount fine but it says that the System volume has a bad master directory. If I retry to mount using Silverlining, it fails again, but Disk First Aid can fix the problem. If I don't try to remount, Disk First Aid finds no need for repairs. Now I could see this kind of thing happening once, but it is quite consistent. By the way, if I put System 6.0.7 on another volume and boot from that instead, then hit the restart, it is still the volume that is physically first on the drive which gets the master directory screwed up. Also, if I hit interrupt, and use the "rs" command in MacsBug, everythings cool. Nothing gets corrupted. It is really getting to be annoying that I have to go through all this every time. Can anybody tell me exactly what is going on here. Is it a problem with the Silverlining driver (and will it be fixed in version 5.30)? And by the way, does anybody out there have version 5.30 yet? Thank you very much in advance, Z ================================================================= Ray Zimmerman | Electrical Engineering 369 Engineering & Theory Center | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 | zman@ee.cornell.edu =================================================================
Roger.W.Brown@dartmouth.edu (Roger W. Brown) (06/11/91)
In article <1991Jun7.113321.5327@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> sxh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Ray Zimmerman) writes: > Occasionally my IIci will hang due to System 7 incompatible > programs that I'm checking out, and I'll be forced to hit the > restart button on the programmer's switch. Everytime I do this > my System volume refuses to mount. If I run Silverlining from > floppy the other volumes mount fine but it says that the System > volume has a bad master directory. If I retry to mount using > Silverlining, it fails again, but Disk First Aid can fix the > problem. If I don't try to remount, Disk First Aid finds no > need for repairs. I don't have an explanation or any help for you, except to say that the same thing is happening to me with a 2 partition La Cie Cirrus. I have been trying to get help from LaCie for a few days have only gotten a recording on the tech support line. It does not appear to be a universal problem. Other people here running SilverLining are not reporting it. If you get an answer, please share it and I will do the same. Roger Brown Courseware Development Dartmouth College Hanover NH Roger.W.Brown@Dartmouth.edu