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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:03:17 GMT
- Subject: Re: SSTOR Woes 8-( help....
- Message-ID: <27800022@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!franks
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- References: <Bsw54B.7Ey@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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- derek@ibmpcug.co.uk (Derek Jones) writes:
-
- >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* ?
-
- I understand that you have the normal retail SuperSTOR product and
- probably MS-DOS 5.0. I have DR DOS 6.0 with the (stripped) bundled
- SuperSTOR version and PC Tools 6.0.
-
- I never had the problems which you have, but have had problems which
- (the DR DOS 6.0) CHKDSK could not fix, but which DISKFIX could fix. If
- the SSTOR or (DR DOS 6.0) CHKDSK output was "strange", I always could
- get it back to normal by running (the DR DOS 6.0) DISKOPT and rebooting
- the machine (which causes the SuperSTOR partition to be re-attached).
- I do not know if the CHKDSK and DISKOPT (a (PC Tools) COMPRESS-like)
- program) supplied with DR DOS 6.0 are the same as those supplied with
- the normal retail SuperSTOR product. I do know that both these DR DOS
- 6.0 programs are SuperSTOR-smart.
-
- I hope this helps. If you need further help then please give details,
- i.e. command and options used, output from commands, etc.. Please note
- that I only have the stripped product, i.e. the SuperSTOR driver, the
- device_letter_swapper and the SSTOR, XDIR, CHKDSK and DISKOPT commands
- (I think that's it. I have the PC and manual at home.).
-
- Frank Slootweg
-