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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive)
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Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 13:08:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 15 13:08:34 1987
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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
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