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- From: steve@intellection.com (Steve Martin)
- Subject: Re: Duo's: Are Redundant Systems A Good Idea?
- In-Reply-To: nick+@pitt.edu's message of 12 Dec 92 03:39:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <STEVE.92Dec14081804@elvis.intellection.com>
- Sender: steve@intellection.com (Steve Martin)
- Organization: Intellection, Inc.
- References: <562@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:18:04 GMT
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- Several users (including myself) have experienced HD crashes on the
- Duo 230 that cause the HD to become corrupted to the point that it
- will not mount. Your "two system folder" scheme will not help in that
- case (I'm not sure it would in any case). The best defenses I have
- thought of are:
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- 1) Boot off of a RAM disk. Put a copy of Norton or MacTools Deluxe
- Diskfix on the RAM disk. If your drive gets trashed you will be able
- to fix it.
-
- 2) Untested... Partition the internal drive on the Duo, put a system
- folder on each partition. This is what I am doing now, but I haven't
- had a crash in quite a while so I don't know if both partitions would
- get trashed or not. Of course you need access to a floppy (or
- preferably a hard drive to avoid reinstallation of the system from
- floppies!) in order to do this.
-
- In order to get to the stability that I have now, I stopped using
- DiskExpress II and reformatted the drive using Hard Disk Toolkit.
-