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- From: bohlman@plains.NoDak.edu (Daemon)
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- Subject: Re: DirWorks 1.62 seems to hate my floppies...
- Message-ID: <19703@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:15:20 GMT
- References: <crystal.713682321@glia>
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- In article <crystal.713682321@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
- >
- >It is always the SAME block - 880.
- >It matters NOT which drive I use.
- >It matters NOT which floppy I use.
- >It kills the floppy completely so that when I try to reinsert it into the
- >drive to check it, I get the disk icon and :NDOS under it.
- >
- >Any clues on this? Have others had the same problem with that block number??
- >Can this affect my harddrive if that block number is ever left vacant on it
- >for DW to get its claws into?
- >
- >I am referring to 1.62 version only.
- >
- >System is: A2000, 2.04, 1M-Agnus/2M-Fast (if this makes a difference)
-
- I have had the same problem ocasionally, as has a good friend of mine, except
- we had it with both 1.61 and 1.62. Something in 2.04 doesn't like the routines
- used.
-
- I have heard that the 2.1 version of SetPatch fixes that little problem, but,
- never having used it, I can't say for sure...
-
- I wouldn't worry about your harddrive, however, because block 880 is, I believe
- a control block of some sort on floppies. If it dies, the floppy is dead.
-
- FixDisk can recover part of the data on the disk, usually most of it.
- Until C= decides to release the 2.1 disks, I'd say hang-on to backup copies and
- don't use the move function.
-
- A copy of FixDisk couldn't hurt, either...
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