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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 ?


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David Lo   (415)939-2400                                          /\  o
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