bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher) (06/15/91)
Hi all, Ive recently been getting crashes which cause my A590 to have R/W
errors, and so it wont validate. I got a requester along the lines of
"Key xxxxx is a bad header", so I jumped in with Sectorama, and kludged that
block into a valid header ( with no data blocks ) - before I change it, it
looks like the first data block in a file ( you can tell cause of it's
contents )
Ok, so now Ive got a "dummy" file on the disk right ?
So originally, I kludged the root block to point at my dummy, but then a
re-boot gave me a requester like "key xxxxx already in use", validation failed
again. So I took it out of root ( the dummy is still there ), and re-booted
again. And.... It worked, so the disk validated ok.
Next I did a "dir opt a" to see who was pointing to my block, and I was
suprised to find that NOTHING was !
I know this sort of thing probably isnt a good idea to do, but the drive has
been re-formatted since too. Anyway, now you've read all that : The question :
Can anyone tell me what happens during the disk validation stage so I can go
back and do it myself if need be ( I assume it sees the bitmap is invalid, so
goes through the whole disk trying to see what belongs where, this is the bit
Id like to get more details about )
Anyway, I hope someone can help me.
Thanx in advance !
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