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- From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
- Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.211411.16924@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <92351.29836.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:14:11 GMT
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- In article <92351.29836.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >
- >Aye, 'tis true that the "three-fingered salute" in the middle of an app will
- >giving you the "Updating allocation map..." message. I've also encountered
- >a "volume damaged" (aka "you should have backed up your hard drive, dummy)
- >error on doing so--twice. After the second time I scrapped Stacker and
- >have had no more bad sectors arise (version 2.0).
-
- I have the "Updating FAT" messages when I reboot during an app as well, but
- with v1.x, I have never encountered the "volume damaged". It looks like
- all of the complaints I have seen about Stacker have been regarding v2.0
- Yet another reason for me to keep using v1.x like I have been for over two
- years....
-
- >What happens when a program hangs up, though? You can't exit normally and
- >gracefully. You have no choice but to reset the machine. I always tried to
- >avoid needing to turn the machine off while programs were actively running,
- >but it wasn't possible 100% of the time.
-
- I have programs hang all the time on me...and I am constantly rebooting
- while on a Stacker volume. As long as the app in question wasn't in the middle
- of a read/write exercise, you are okay. Otherwise, on reboot, Stacker will
- have to update the FAT the best it can. Then you should run SCHECK and
- CHKDSK to fix any lost sector groups, etc...
-
-
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- John Mechalas "I'm not an actor, but
- mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu I play one on TV."
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