On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 20:03:37 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> The earth revolves around the sun ???
> Since when ?!?!?
Ever since you-know-who got angry at a bunch of churchbodies who were
giving Gallileo a hard time. :>
> OK, on your system they are not working.
<instructions & help on HDD care deleted for space>
I have Norton Utilities.
I use them frequently -- have to with Arachne.
Ran Speed Disk yesterday, which -- as part of the defrag process --
sorts and rewrites directories. Just checked again & getting same error
message.
I was gonna say that HDD couldn't be problem, cuz 1.66 was having no
problems ... then remembered it's on a different physical HDD. :> So to
keep you happy I'll save this and then run NDD.
Back in a flash with more of the trash ....
NDD says:
NDD
Norton Utilities, 6.01
Wednesday, 4 April 2001 10:48
*************************
* Report for Drive T: *
*************************
DISK TOTALS
-----------------------------------------
378,126,336 bytes Total Disk Space
294,248,448 bytes in 8,091 User Files
3,588,096 bytes in 430 Directories
24,576 bytes in 3 Hidden Files
80,265,216 bytes Available on the Disk
LOGICAL DISK INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------
Media Descriptor: F8
Large Partition: Yes
FAT Type: 16-bit
Total Sectors: 738,923
Total Clusters: 46,158
Bytes Per Sector: 512
Sectors Per Cluster: 16
Bytes Per Cluster: 8,192
Number of FATs: 2
First Sector of FAT: 1
Number of Sectors Per FAT: 181
First Sector of Root Dir: 363
Number of Sectors in Root Dir: 32
Maximum Root Dir File Entries: 512
First Sector of Data Area: 395
PHYSICAL DISK INFORMATION
-----------------------------------------
This drive is not a physical
drive, therefore it doesn't
have Physical Characteristics
SYSTEM AREA STATUS
-----------------------------------------
No Errors in the System Area
FILE STRUCTURE STATUS
-----------------------------------------
No Errors in the File Structure
SURFACE TEST STATUS
-----------------------------------------
Test Settings
-----------------------
Test: Disk Test
Test Type: Daily
Repair Setting: Prompt before Repairing
Passes Requested: 1
Passes Completed: 1
Elapsed Time: 8 minutes, 31 seconds
No Errors encountered in Surface Test
Back in a flash with even *more* trash ...
If you think about it, the ability to sort the messages and write a new
index, an index easily read by InSight, sorta disproves your theory of
possible FAT problems.
But just to show it is specific to my installation of v1.70r3, I went to
1.66 and then from desktop went to Arachne/mail/members.hip on the T:
drive ... there 1.66 had no problem reading the individual messages
within that subdirectory. [It didn't know what to do with the index
files, since I wasn't calling things up through InSight ... but it knew
a message was a message and displayed it via InSight.
Note also: The problem is not with the InSight version issued with
v1.70r3. I know that to be a fact, because the InSight version being
used with v1.66 is the *newer* version -- the one I copied over from
v1.70r3 to see if it would help reduce the lost cluster chains. [It
seems to have done that, btw]
Thus, the problem lies specifically within the Arachne specific files of
v1.70r3 [And yes, I just double checked to see if the messages in
arachne/mail/members.hip could be read by v1.70r3 after running NDD and
after v1.66 could read them. Thus, re-reconfirmation the problem is
specific to v1.70r3.]
l.d.
