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- From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Bad Sector
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:37:05 PST
- Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
- Message-ID: <0105010A.itk1gc@salient.com>
- Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
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- In article <1992Nov8.205527.29321@leland.Stanford.EDU> (comp.sys.mac.misc), Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@cardinal.stanford.edu> writes:
- | My computer was sitting idle today when Autodoubler popped up this nice
- |little dialog box. It said something like, "Autodoubler has caught an
- |error or type -20999 ... The file is good but your hard disk might be
- |bad. Please contact tech support." I looked up -20999 in the
- |SystemErrors DA and couldn't find it. Does anyone know what this error
- |is?
-
- -20999 is a AutoDoubler internal error. It means that AutoDoubler
- encountered a checksum error while checking the copy against the original.
-
- Run the Disk Tester utility that came with AutoDoubler and see if
- it reports the same errors.
-
- If you are running a version earlier than 1.0.7 and the file the error
- occured on is a graphic file then you might contact Fifth Generation
- Systems at 1-800-766-7283 and order the update to 1.0.7 (it's free).
- Some graphic files contained bit patterns that caused checksum errors
- in earlier versions.
-
- | When I ran Silverlining it found a bad sector. Is there any way I
- |can map out the sector without re-formatting? If not, what's the best
- |way to get around this.
-
- Silverlining has the capability to map out a bad sector. The version
- we looked at is 5.3.1 but it does have a "Map out manually" command
- available.
-
- |Also, when I try booting any of the files that
- |were in the folder that Autodoubler caught the problem in, Finder gives
- |me a "Not enough memory" message when there's clearly enough memory.
- |Thanx in advance.
- ...
-
- The Finder (due to the bad sector) may be attaching a very large segment
- of your disk to that file.
-
- for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
- for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
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