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- From: rick@emma.panam.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Younie)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: sick news partition
- Message-ID: <hHjcs*NG2@emma.panam.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:39:29 GMT
- Keywords: kick the cat, beat the wife
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- Bcc: emma!rick
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- My hard drive news partition got lobotomized yesterday. I made several
- uucp and Fido calls and they seemed to go normally, but all the incoming
- data was lost and none of the logfiles were updated. So I backed up and
- reformatted, but although the format proceeded normally, the data on the
- drive wouldn't go away.
-
- So I took everything apart, re-seated chips, low-level formatted and wrote
- drive parameters and restored and everything seems ok. But I'd prefer
- that this didn't happen again. I've lost some data from yesterday that I
- have no way of recovering.
-
- Does this sound like a problem with the uucp software? I suspect it is
- more likely problems with my hardware. This is my setup
-
- 9 meg news partition on an MFM drive with wedge interface - the other
- partition on the drive was fine through all this. Also the other
- harddrive that shares the interface was and is ok.
-
- rnews - @($)rnews.c V1.16.14 May 08 1992
- I run this with 'RNews uucp:c/rnews -1 -h' in uulib:config
-
- trimnews - @($)trimnews.c V1.16.04 Sep 22 1992
-
- I had this happen about a month ago, but I blamed hard links that time.
- I thought the hard drive software probably got trashed just enough that
- it didn't remember how to write, only read. But it is very unlikely that
- this could happen twice, and I'm not using hard links any more. It's
- also pretty unlikely that code can get randomly trashed and still run at
- all. :)
-
- Anyone had a similar experience?
-
- Rick
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