I *didn't* want to report this incident, because I haven't (don't like to!) reproduce it. However, this was *not* a simple "lost clusters" problem, which is detected already by "chkdsk" in 'autoexec.bat'. This was much more severe and extensive corruption. All I was indicating Michael, is that I *always* check if a problem is reproducible before reporting it. If I can't reproduce it, I will either *not* report it or I will *indicate* that I couldn't reproduce it. Best regards, Joe. ____ | From: Michael Polak | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: | Sent: 25 July, 2000 02:24 PM | Subject: Re: Clarence : V1.64 : Cool crash! (xSwap) | | | Dne Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:07:31 +1000, da Silva, Joe | napsal: | | > *are* reproducible before reporting them. That's why | I didn't report the | > last crash I had with V1.62 - it wiped my FAT's and | Root directory | > and no doubt a "few" more sectors besides! I tried | in vain to recover | > the drive but in the end I just had to reformat it! | I'm sure other people | > would have written something abusive in this | situation, but that would | > not have been very constructive, right? | | I was trying to analyze this lost clusters problem.... | I think it | realy isn't straightforward Arachne's internal bug. | Consider this: | | 1) Every DOS program damages FAT if it crashes without | closing files | and/or flushing disk cache (which is on the other hand | required to | run Arachne) - maybe those who crash Arachne wery | often should consider | running Arachne from RAMdisk, which is natuaraly | re-created after any | reboot.. | | 2) Arachne crashes more often then other DOS apps (eg. | games, text | editors, image viewers, etc.), because Arachne is | being confrointed | with million times more unverified and untested data, | which are being | downloaded from websites. There are much, much more | possible | combinations situations, which Arachne must face, than | in all typical | DOS apps, which usually have to analyze just user | input, and simple | data formats like plain text or image files (formats | like GIF, JPEG | or BMP are infinitely more simple than HTML, fyi). | | 3) I think that FAT damage is seldom fatal, if you | check filesystem | very often. I suggest you to add chkdsk C: /F, chkdsk | D: /F, etc. | for all your drives, to autoexec.bat - this will | detect any small | problems after each Arachne crash, before they may | become big problems. | | 4) In 1.66, many problems related to invalid TEMP | path, TEMP identical | to CACHE, etc., etc. were fixed. | | So my suggestion is: try version 1.66. If safety of | your data is | very important for you, run it always from RAMdisk | always, otherwise | run chkdsk after each DOS crash, and preferably after | each reboot of | DOS. | | | -- | Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/ | My mobile phone - up to 160 characters: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
