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- From: cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: SuperStor
- Message-ID: <29115@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:31:10 GMT
- References: <29065@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1797@ocpt.ccur.com>
- Reply-To: cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
- Lines: 58
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- In comp.os.msdos.apps, pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) writes:
- >
- >Ok here's the story. Run the SuperStor utilities program SSUTIL
- >to check the disk and verify the file system. In other words, read the
- >manual.
- >
-
- Believe me, I read the manual. And reread the manual. And ran
- SSUTIL a half a dozen time.
-
- >Superstor ran into a bad spot on the disk when it was compressing the
- >file system. It refused to move your files over it.
- >
- >If you hadn't deleted the files -- the SuperStor utility ssutil would
- >enable you to fix the bad spots and recover the data with no problems.
- >Right now you've got a file system inconsistancy that's making the
- >Superstor driver mark it as a read only file system.
- >
-
- As I said in the original post, I was not able to delete any files
- in DOS because the drive was write protected. I would run SSUTIL
- REPAIR, it would repair files with errors and ask what to do with
- them. After choosing the rename option, I would run repair again.
- The same files (renamed) would come up with errors. I finally
- had to choose the delete option. Repair then came up with a whole
- new set of bad files. I deleted these also, and that seemed to
- do the trick. (Yes delete was working within SSUTIL and not DOS)
-
- >Ssutil will correct the inconsistancy internally and tell you to run
- >fsck -- errr... ooops I mean chkdisk to fix it for MS-DOS.
- >
-
- I was also running chkdsk (see, I did read the manual) a multitude
- of times thru all of this. The /f switch wouldn't work because
- (I assume) the drive was write protected.
-
- >Hell - I've got flaky Perstor PS180 controllers RLLing MFM drives and
- >I've never had a problem that ssutil couldn't fix.
- >
-
- Congratulations
-
- >Bill
- >
- >(DR-DOS6 user who upgraded to SSTOR 1.3 because of how reliable it's been)
- >
-
- BTW, thanks again to all of you out there who emailed me helpful
- replies. The trauma is over, and I will attempt to defrag more and
- trust the documentation less.
-
- Cat
-
- __________
-
- "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
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