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- From: derek@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Jones)
- Subject: SSTOR Woes 8-( help....
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- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:00:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bsw54B.7Ey@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Sender: derek@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Jones)
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- I had another problem with my sstor drive yesterday (grrr). Most of the
- time it works just fine. From time to time (it's happend twice now in the
- space of a couple of months), a whole directory entry gets munged and neither
- sstor's repair facility nor chkdsk will fix it. Now, the first time it happened
- I used ndd (even though I know it says you shouldn't), and it worked
- very well, recovered the files and dirs, (followed by unerase).
-
- This time not even ndd would access the directory structure properly. It
- offered to move it to another spot, which I accepted, and it then failed
- all over.
-
- PCTOOLS (v6) diskfix did the job however (Yeeeaahh!), *BUT* the sstor
- stats now appear to be wrong. 8-( . All the data is still on the disk
- (100Mb SCSI Harcard, [Time, UK]), but the disk stats report only
- 13Mb used, when I know that there's nearly "120Mb" roughly used of the
- sstor container. Neither ssutil nor chkdsk report any errors in *anything*.
- The system is working (perfectly?!?) happily, and my other 86 Mb IDE drive
- is unaffected. (I boot DOS from the IDE drive).
-
- Now, I guess it's something to do with a different cluster size used
- by diskfix and sstor. *ANY GUESSES* ?
-
- Moreover, how do I get it fixed???
- Flood gear at the ready......
-
- Thanks
-
- Derek.
-
- Derek Jones.
-
- System Manager.
- A.I. Vision Research Unit, Sheffield University, Western Bank,
- Sheffield. S10 2TN. U.K.
- Tel: (+44) (0)742 768555 X 6551 email: derek@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk
- FAX: (+44) (0)742 766515
-
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- Derek Jones, System Manager, AI Vision Research Unit, University of Sheffield ,
- Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK Tel:(+44) (0)742 768555 X 6551 Fax:(+44) (0)742 766515
- email: derek@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk derek@ibmpcug.co.uk
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