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- From: gorrie@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dennis Gorrie)
- Subject: Re: QuarterBack 5.03 & Disk Errors
- Sender: news@sue.cc.uregina.ca
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.194658.396224@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:46:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.205714.25850@eskimo.com>
- Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan17.205714.25850@eskimo.com> dwdyer@eskimo.com (Wayne Dyer) writes:
- >Ok, you're backing up happily ;-) to floppies. You have verify after write
- >on, and all seems well until in the middle of disk N, you get a message that
- >it couldn't do a verify somewhere on the disk. It then asks you if you want
- >to try the write again or to go on.
- >
- >IF YOU CHOOSE TO TRY AGAIN, QB will re-do the whole disk. BUT -- even if it
- >looks like the re-try worked (no error messages) there's a good chance that
- >the ENTIRE backup after that disk will be corrupt. Why? QB seems to lose
- [stuff deleted]
- >The way around this? If it says it couldn't verify something, DON'T try it
- >again. Use a different disk.
-
- I got bitten by this twice too. Thanks for confirming it.
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