Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU!bryce From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Close Call (Supra hard drive) Message-ID: <8707150606.AA03673@cogsci.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 02:06:58 EDT Article-I.D.: cogsci.8707150606.AA03673 Posted: Wed Jul 15 02:06:58 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 02:43:31 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 Keywords: Amiga hard disk Supra horror story Sounds sort of like the AmigaDOS disk "validator". You described a system crash and when things came up again the drive spent 5 minuites blinking it's light. 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) ----------------------------- |\ /| . Ack! (NAK, EOT, SOH) {o O} . ( " ) bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce U "Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure."