hecht@unx.sas.com (Mike Hecht) (10/30/90)
I am posting the following for a friend. Please mail any responses to me at hecht@unx.sas.com. Thanks! ====== Forwarded Message ====== I have a Mac IIsi 2/40 system, with an external Quantum 105 meg SCSI drive, which is starting to have problems. The drive is third party, but was initialized and custom partitioned with a tweaked copy of the Apple HD SC utility, at a 1:1 interleave. It worked without any problems on my old Mac Plus system, and *usually* works okay with the IIsi. Twice, though, it has been trashed. The first time was after a crash in ResEdit. When I rebooted, my root directory was empty, but claimed there was 32 meg used on the disk. An opened folder from deeper down in the directory tree was still fine (until I closed it) and visible. I tried to look at the device using Disk First Aid and the HD SC utility, but the basic concensus was that the partition map had been trashed. Time to restore from backups. Two days later, I cancelled a particularly long copy of a folder from a CD-ROM to the 100 meg HD, and lo and behold, a 100 meg partition had become an 80 meg partition. I even looked at it under the HD SC utility again -- the last 20 meg had been tossed out of the partition on the drive. What's going on, and have you got any ideas about what I can do to stop this nonsense? -- =========================================================================== Michael Hecht Internet: hecht@unx.sas.com SAS Institute Inc. AppleLink: SAS.HECHT