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- From: Ralph.Martin@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
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- Subject: Re: HELP: Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.142709.14544@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:27:07 GMT
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- In article <1jmh7kINNllu@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> Andrew G. Minter,
- agm@bnr.co.uk writes:
- >Do you trust Disk First Aid 7.1?
-
- No.
-
- >I then checked the Frog using Disk First Aid 7.1. It found "invalid
- sibling"
- >problems, so I repeated steps 4-6 again.
- >
- >I then ran Disk First Aid about 10 times. Around half the time it found
- no
- >problems, the other times it found a variety of different problems
- (which I
- >didn't allow it to fix).
- >>Norton Utilities cannot find anything wrong with the drive and it seems
- to
- >work just fine.
-
- I have had *exactly* the same symptoms with a Rodime disk with Rodime's
- own Cobra driver. Run DFA on it and it would give an error, and even
- without quitting DFA, run it again on the same disk and it would say it
- was OK. Norton finds nothing wrong. This has been going on for me since
- System 7.0 (perhaps even longer), and its not new to 7.1. In the end I
- have just learnt to ignore it. The disk itself seems OK.
-
- Ralph
-