Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ptsfa!varian!madvax!davidlo From: davidlo@madvax.UUCP (David Lo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive) Message-ID: <609@madvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 19:20:19 EDT Article-I.D.: madvax.609 Posted: Wed Jul 15 19:20:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 01:48:54 EDT References: <8707150606.AA03673@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Organization: Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek CA Lines: 24 Keywords: Amiga hard disk Supra horror story Summary: Question on Validator In article <8707150606.AA03673@cogsci.berkeley.edu>, bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes: > If it's the validator then what happened was this: The crash prevented > AmigaDOS from from perfroming a final update on the hard disk. Next > time things where booted AmigaDOS noticed somehting "strange" and decided > to validate the ENTIRE disk. > > AmigaDOS keeps a lot of links that can be used to reconstruct most of > even a badly mangled disk. THIS IS A FEATURE! If you happend to zap > the dual copies of the FAT on an IBM disk you be "up data creek without > any file links". (Your data would be quite scrambled) > I've noticed the first time I boot from an almost full workbench, the Amiga took quit a while (like 1 to 3 minutes, or at least seems to be) to load workbench. The subsequence reboot takes less time. I guess what happens is the Amiga actually attempted to rearrange the segments of the workbench disk. Isn't it true ? -- David Lo (415)939-2400 /\ o Varian Instruments, 2700 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 \/ {ptsfa,lll-crg,zehntel,dual,amd,fortune,ista,rtech,csi,normac}varian!davidlo