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- From: John McCrea <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Disk failure - help needed !
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 23:47:36 GMT
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (bjornax@algonet.se) wrote:
- > Hello!
- >
- > I've been using AFS on my system partition for a couple of months by now and
- > it has worked just fine until now. But now , when I was saving a file I have
- > been working with, a requester from AFS popped up saying:
- > "Disk not valid
- > Wrong bitmap id
- > [Ok] [Cancel]"
- > Directly after that, another one came up telling me "Disk update failed".
- > After that these requesters comes about 50% of the times I try to save
- > something. And usually, any program accessing the disk after that will hang.
- > This only appears when writing, never when reading. So it is possible for me to
- > make backup (377 Mb) and reformat the partition, but I really want some easier
- > solution.
- >
- > Could this problem easily be solved ? (Using DiskSalv or something similar) or
- > do I have to make a backup of my entire partition and reformat it ?
- > Can it even be a hardware error on the drive ? (Hope _not_!).
- >
-
- Hi Bjrn
-
- As no one else has replied, I'll have a go...
-
- Fourth Level have a program on their FTP server called Diskvalid. It is
- their attempt to make something like DiskSalv, and IMHO is not very good.
- I have had a problem like this and Diskvalid failed to fix it. You could
- try it yourself...ftp to ftp.flevel.co.uk.
-
- DiskSalvAFS is shipping, but they will charge you UKP 43 for that (don't
- know what that is in your money, sorry). This still seems to have a few
- bugs, but as I don't have it I don't know what they are. I think you might
- be disappointed with it as it stands at the moment (but I stand to be
- corrected....)
-
- I fixed mine by copying everything to another partition and then
- reformatting, but even then I had problems until I formatted the partition
- as FFS and then back to AFS.
-
- Good luck
-
- John
-
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