| From: | Gerald Mellor |
| Date: | 3 Mar 2001 at 21:55:53 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS2 wrong index block id & wrong dir block id |
Hi Richard, on 27-Feb-01, you wrote:
> In the last hour and a half or so I have had these errors with my
> Seagate Barracuda SCSI hard drive (formatted and partitioned with
> PFS2 and HDToolBox under OS39)...
>
> Wrong index block id
> wrong dir block id
Sounds familiar :)
> Work2 is not validated
Sounds *very* familiar...
> I ran DiskValidGUI (came with PFS2 I think?!) and managed to "fix"
> it but it happened again just then (about an hour and a half after
> the first time.
Yeah, DiskValid isn't really all that good at fixing errors like this.
Once they occur they tend to keep reoccurring. The only solution I've
found is to reformat the disk. Copy everything to a CD / Zip / other
partition and format that partition.
> I have not added or removed any hardware in the last 2-3-4 weeks or
> so, and have been using one of the hard drive's partitions for all
> my email, mp3 downloads and other aminet etc. downloads. It is only
> 565MB/4GB used. The rest of the drive is 3 other unmounted 4GB
> partitions and about a 1GB unmounted partition.
What's on the partition where you're getting the errors? Is YAM on
that partition? Or your browser caches? Try increasing the number of
buffers on that partition to 500 or so, I've found this helps to
prevent these kind of errors (and it was what was recommended to me by
Mr Hoekstra of Greed when I first encountered this problem).
Regards
Gerry
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