Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!virginia!uvacs!jcf5a From: jcf5a@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (John C. Fenton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Validating disks??? Summary: Validating or Scribble! Keywords: scribble!, validating Message-ID: <2845@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 16:14:42 GMT References: <1389@aucs.UUCP> Reply-To: jcf5a@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu.UUCP (John C. Fenton) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: U.Va. CS dept. Charlottesville, VA Lines: 18 In article <1389@aucs.UUCP> 870646c@aucs.UUCP ('Barry Comer') writes: >Can anyone tell me what goes on during disk validation(?). I was using >scribble the other day, when the machine locked up after saving my file. The >next time I booted it up the hard disk was bad(got one of those disk not >validated msgs.) >I seem to have had this problem 3 or 4 times in the last month, I returned the >hard drive(local dealer is a bit underhanded) and got a new ST-225. Same >problem, I am using about 100 buffers with the hard disk, and ...[stuff del] >Barry I have a A1000 and scribble! also. Im using df0: and twice when runnig scribble! my drive got really loud and it was all over for the floppy. I think that both times I had something else running that access the drive some moments (n>seconds) before scribble! crunched it. :-<. Oh well! Anybody else? Fentonite P.S. can you get greek characters in Scribble!