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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."