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- From: robo@robo.winternet.com (Rob Ordahl)
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- Subject: Re: Harddisk problems: does wanagi-wachipi ring a bell????
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 03:03:58 GMT
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- In article <Dp88LH.778@ebi.ac.uk> sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk) writes:
- :
- :Two days ago, I tried to start up my A1200, without success. After booting
- :from floppy, the harddisk (a 730 MB Quantum Lightning attached to an
- :Apollo accelerator/SCSI-II interface) wasn't recognized. With the Apollo
- :installation software, the harddisk appeared unformatted. Luckily, I could
- :restore most of the drive using disksalv (had to use the salvage option).
- :Everything worked fine until this morning when almost the same happened.
- :My 400 MB boot partition showed up as HD0:NDOS; (the rest of the harddisk
- :is used with ShapeShifter and seems ok). I tried to repair HD0: with
- :disksalv. As a result the volume name was now "wanagi-wachipi"; I came
- :across this name the first time it happened, too, but didn't think much of
- :it at the time.
- :
- :Anyway, before I try and restore the disk again, I'd like to know if
- :anyone has come across the name 'wanagi-wachipi?' Is it a virus and if
- :not where did this name come from? Interestingly, I've got another SCSI
- :harddisk attached to the controller which isn't affected. As far as I
- :know, the SCSI cabling and termination is OK.
- :
- :Any help appreciated,
- :
- :Peter
-
- Yes, it's happened to a partition on my main drive... I'd done something stupid
- (I've since forgotten what) to that partition and after a bit of work had
- straightened things out, but the partition had "wanagi-wachipi" as its new
- name. I figured my machine had been posessed by some Native American diety and
- decided to leave well enough alone; the partition still wears that strange
- name. Hmmm...
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