ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) (10/09/90)
I just had a fun experience with my hard drive. I ordered Playmaker Football last week from MacConnection, and was playing it the other day when one of the tackle sounds died. So, when I finished the game I got out my master disk and dragged the folder with all of the files in it to the HD. Well, the 1st thing that happenned was the finder saying it couldn't delete the folder. No problem I think; the folder may be busy because PMF was using at as the active folder. So I open the folder on the master and drag copy all the files to the HD. Well, I got unknown disk errors on about half the files when I tried to write them, and then everything in the PMF folder DISAPPEARED! I was freaking because it had my team in there, and I had no backup of it...ARGH! Luckily I had SUM guardian installed, so after I figured out how to make an info file for my partition (NOT at all intuitive with true SCSI partitions), I restored it. Poof, everything back to normal. I've got a Jasmine DirectDrive 45 (Quantum), and the drive test shows no bad sectors. I don't want this to happen again; what happenned, and how do I fix it? I'm using system 6.02 with Suitcase, Backdrop, MacroMaker, INIT, SUM shield (thank GOD!), Disinfectant Init, Soundmaster, and SafeEject. -- Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu) Greetings, Royal Ugly Dudes!