Hi Justin,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000, at 09:09 AM, you wrote:
>
> Hello Wayne
>
> On 22-Jun-00, you wrote:
>
> >>> voyager. Version 3.2 I would have lost of crashes per day and this
> >>> would cause errors on my hard drive which is something I did not
> >>> appreciate. As to I would spend two hours at a time repairing and
> >>> then validating my hard drive to get it into working condition
> >>> again with
---- snip ----
> >> boot the machine, to give me a chance to remove a disk I had in one
> >> of my floppy drives. That was a mistake. When the computer re-
> >> booted, it could not validate the Bernoulli cartridge (230 megs) I
> >> had been using for my Cache directory for V. Luckily I have a Zip
> >> 250 drive and a spare Zip 250 cartridge, and luckily, even though
---- snip ----
> > This may not be the advice you want but the safest thing I've found
> > is to just cancel the cache completely, this didn't work before but
> > now it seems to work fine.
> >
> > I was getting sick of having to repair my drive with disksalv or
> > reformatting and recopying so I just got rid of the cache and to be
> > honest I haven't really missed it !!
> >
> > I would recommend trying a different file system such as
> > SmartFileSystem or PFS. Then even if your machine does crash you
> > shouldn't have to worry about your drive becoming invalidated. FFS
> > is pretty old now.
>
> Regards
> --
> Justin Young
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/justiny/
Your advice, on the surface, is sound, but, how compatible are these
file systems with the older ones? We already know that the safest way
to format a harddisk is not to use International or DirCache features.
What are the caveats for SmartFileSystem and PFS? I ask this because I
heard that they sometimes act hinky and do not allow you to easily fix
your drive.
The advice I gave is valid irrespective of the file system used. It
basically is what would have happened if you would have used DiskDoctor
on a floppy. Further, the act of copying is not the only advice I gave.
I also stated that, if, after V crashes the computer, the computer self
reboots (without human intervention), then, let it do its thing. When I
allowed it to do everything by itself, it did validate the cartridge and
I was all set. I did not have to copy over anything nor reformat any-
thing.
How do the other filesystems work with this situation?
BTW, my question of why the crash happened has not been answered, nor
what to do to prevent it.
Julian.
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