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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Harddisk problems: does wanagi-wachipi ring a bell????
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 00:41:17 GMT
- Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
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- From article <4jve6u$7hb@blackice.winternet.com>, by robo@robo.winternet.com (Rob Ordahl):
- >
- >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...
-
- It is obviously Dave Haynie's sense of humour, Disksalv contains this
- phrase. It's a bit like the "Lazarus" from times past (for a floppy
- "raised from the dead").
-
- Allan Duncan a.duncan@trl.telstra.com.au (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6664
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