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- Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: HD problem
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:10:02 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <4e3psa$arq@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
- X-Posted-By: krishna@usr3.primenet.com
-
- I need some serious help.
-
- I wrote a huge file (18mb) to disk and suddenly one of my partitions
- became "invalid". I couldn't delete this file and had all sorts of
- problems with it.
-
- I tried Disksalv to no avail. I realized I had to repartition so I moved
- all my files to a different partition and repartitioned, changing the
- beginning point of the old partition a little bit.
-
- But I am still having problems. When I try to format the first
- partition, I get write errors during the format. Same thing with my 2nd
- partition. The "bad" partition seems to fomat okay but when I run
- "validate" on Disksalv, and it tries to write back to disk, I get errors.
-
-
- On my 1st partition, the Disksalv errors is "write error on disk block
- 51269".
- Root block is 51243
-
- On my 2nd partition, the Disksalv error is "write error on disk block 77791".
- Root bock is 77765
-
- These bad blocks seem perilously close to the root block. The drive
- VERIFIES okay, so I don't know why it's having write errors. If there
- were a way for me to map out these blocks completely and repartition I'd
- do it.
-
- I am afraid to use these troubled partitions now, although they seem to
- be available for use. Disksalv continues after the "retry" prompt but
- obviously it isn't working.
-
-
- Do you think this is an RDB problem? You'd think repartitioning would
- fix the RDB but it didn't.
-
-