Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: WARNING! FASTBACK may corrupt your hard disk! Message-ID: <614@bucket.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 00:35:38 EST Article-I.D.: bucket.614 Posted: Sat Dec 5 00:35:38 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 22:40:20 EST References: <703@vaxine.UUCP> Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR Lines: 23 Keywords: hard disk, lost files, trojan horse Hate to tell you this, but I _frequently_ use FASTBACK on a machine with an ST-238 and an Adaptec 2070A RLL controller. Never had any problems. However, the Adaptec 2070A controller is notorius for a problem with the early production runs. We had a second Adaptec 2070A and an ST-238 for backup purposes (this machine is CRITICAL to a department). I set it up on the backup machine and it seemed to be ok. So I put the machine away until we needed it. Well, my AT got "sick" and had to be sent out for repair. I dug out the backup machine and started to use it. It _rapidly_ developed bad clusters, I was having to do a TAPE backup followed by a low level format (!) a couple times a day. (no I wasn't using FASTBACK on _this_ machine!) If I were you, I'd call Adaptec and ask if your controller is one of the ones that needs an upgrade to fix this bug! -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."