At 02:56 20/07/2000 -0400, Julian wrote:
> V crashes, taking a harddrive with it and causing validation errors:
>As stated in a past thread, V 3.2 seems to have a bug which causes it to
>disrupt the I/O process of the disk drive which has the Cache directory,
>used by V.
You're *still* missing the point here. V *doesn't* have a bug that does
that. It's a problem with the operating system/filesystem.
If any program causes the system to crash while the hard disk is being
written to using traditional filesystems, that partition is going to become
invalidated. That's what invalidated means - that after modifying some data
on the disk, the filesystem didn't get an opportunity to update the bitmap
(and the disk being invalidated means the data and bitmap don't match).
It's probably just the case that Voyager either a) writes to the disk more
than other apps, for probably perfectly sensible reasons or b) it crashes
more. But in itself it isn't causing the invalidation of the disk.
>and, first let your Amiga go through the process of
>trying to validate, by itself, without your stopping it or doing any-
>thing. (I, twice, found that, when I did not do anything, the drive
>finally validated and I did not have to reformat the drive or anything.)
But that's the whole point of the validation process. 99% of the time,
assuming you've got a disk that's in a reasonable state in the first place,
it should validate. If the Amiga is doing other things while it's trying to
validate the disk, then that can seriously slow it down and cause it to
take a VERY long time to validate. However, it won't stop it validating,
since the partition is read-only whilst it's being validated, so other apps
aren't able to modify the contents. There are plenty of ways to put your
Amiga's bootup on hold until it's finished validating - there are lots of
utilities on Aminet that'll do it for you, for a start....
Rob
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