Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:2244 comp.unix.wizards:8418 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ll-xn!oberon!sdcrdcf!trwrb!ucla-an!remsit!rem From: rem@remsit.UUCP (Roger Murray) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Mucked-up floppy disks Keywords: SCO floppy sigh Message-ID: <464@remsit.UUCP> Date: 10 May 88 08:25:35 GMT Organization: REM's IT, Santa Monica, CA Lines: 37 I have two dead floppy disks here. On day X (I don't remember how long ago this whole mess started), I took two fresh disks out, formatted them (/dev/fd096ds9, if you're interested), mkfs'ed them, mounted them (one at a time, of course) and filled them up with some 1- and 2-year-old data that I wanted to keep, but didn't need on the hard disk anymore. On day X+1, I decided to put some more data on them so I took them out of the really neat box where I kept them safe and sound and mounted them. Well, attempted to mount them anyway. Disk 1 had a bad block 2 and disk 2 had a bad super block and/or block 1. I have no idea what happened to these poor innocent floppies to make them turn on me so. I've tried fsck and dd. I tried copying them over to good disks from DOS with both DISKCOPY and COPYIIPC. DISKCOPY couldn't read sectors and COPYIIPC complained while writing out the new disk. If this were my Apple, I would have pulled out Bag of Tricks, reformatted track 0 and went back on my merry way, losing nothing in the process. It's bad enough I'm in a PC world, but under XENIX of all things. How do I explain to my PC disk editor that prompts me for a filename "Umm...well, you see this is a XENIX floppy. It has a a super block and i-nodes and..."? Is there anything I can do or should I stop holding back the tears? Before you start talking about backups, I did have one. However, I backed up over it once I placed the data on the disks which, until now, have never failed me. I also know it's not the drive because my other disks still work (I checked). The system: SCO XENIX 2.0.4 running on a Sperry IT Thanks a lot. -- Roger Murray UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,randvax,sdcrdcf,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!cepu!ucla-an!remsit!rem ARPA: cepu!ucla-an!remsit!rem@CS.UCLA.EDU [formerly LOCUS.UCLA.EDU]