Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive) Message-ID: <23524@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 13:08:34 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23524 Posted: Wed Jul 15 13:08:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:44:40 EDT References: <1385@crash.CTS.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 15 Keywords: Amiga hard disk Supra horror story Phil, and others who will inevitably have this happen to them. I believe you have witnessed the disk-validator in the flesh. You see when the disk is being written to and hasn't finished the file yet, and the machine crashes the disk has to be revalidated before AmigaDOS will trust it. If this has happened to you on a full floppy you know that it took nearly a minute to validate your 880K floppy, if it happened on your 20 meg hard disk, it doesn't take 20 minutes but it takes a good long time. So yes, you will need to wait a while, and cross your fingers and hope it doesn't say 'Disk structure Corrupt, Use DiskDoctor to correct it.' --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.