HDD Validating Nightmare

[Karlos]

olegil wrote:
There might be some benefit but can you truly say it is worth it in this case?

DO NOT USE DIRCACHE ON LARGE PARTITIONS. THE VALIDATION WILL CRASH DUE TO LACK OF MEMORY.

Thank you for calling :-)

Dont use dircache with hard disk partitions full stop. In the past it caused me nothing but grief and actually wound up slowing down a lot when the partitions started to get full.

@zipper

That's true, but if the drive is too full or there is not enough memory the conversion can fail. It happened to me once - reorg seems to have a memory ceiling of 32 megs, I never seen it allocate more than that.

[zipper]

ReOrg allocates 64 MB for me; I have about 110 MB free.

[HellCoder]

Slash wrote:
I did manage to get the machine to stay up without guru'ing only by booting into the OS4 beta partition I have installed. Don't know what it does, but it stops it crashing.

A late reply, but still a huge problem!
Well, finally this has happened to me too. Unfortionately I don't have OS4 beta to allow me to copy all the files I really need. I've got about 4 Gb data but this is above the 4.3 Barrier.

Can anyone tell me how to boot my machine and tell the system NOT to validate so I can copy all my files ?
I don't mind formatting after, but just need the data. Can I mount the drive on Linux and than access the files ??
(for example)

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

HellCoder wrote:

Slash wrote:
I did manage to get the machine to stay up without guru'ing only by booting into the OS4 beta partition I have installed. Don't know what it does, but it stops it crashing.

A late reply, but still a huge problem!
Well, finally this has happened to me too. Unfortionately I don't have OS4 beta to allow me to copy all the files I really need. I've got about 4 Gb data but this is above the 4.3 Barrier.

Can anyone tell me how to boot my machine and tell the system NOT to validate so I can copy all my files ?
I don't mind formatting after, but just need the data. Can I mount the drive on Linux and than access the files ??
(for example)

I've been told that you can install WinUAE on a PC, boot into Workbench that way (using a WinUAE partition or Workbench adf), and that WinUAE should then recognize the Amiga hard drive, and allow you to copy your files off.  Of course, I haven't been able to try this yet, as I can't get WinUAE to work under Vista.  :-?

Good luck to you!

[rkauer]

That is an old story: if FFS crashes AND the problematic file is on 6th or more level of directory structure, the revalidating process is unable to repair the partition.

6th level means something like:

DH1:News/journal/classifieds/cars/gm/camaro/problematicFile.{bleep}

That's an UNDOCUMENTED:-o problem of FFS, please, don't ask for the fonts.  

[orange]

how about trying to boot from KS1.3, without disk-validator ?
 

[HellCoder]

Well,
I've managed to get all my data on another HD. What I did was this.

1: Remove the HD from my computer.
2: Put HD into PC machine.
3: Start Knoppix from CD (I used 3.3)
4: make a dir in /tmp
5: mount the partition using affs filesystem and copy all!

Whola,... now I can format the partition again and copy it all back. Atleast I've saved all my data.

[painterly]

I have one partition in os4 that has validation problems occassionally. So I made an os4 boot cd and I just boot from cd and when the system loads, I right click on the icon for that partition and select inf, then click on the size bar to validate the partition. That always solves the problem for a few months without loss of data. Now and then I backup and reformat that partition. I suspect the problem is caused by arteffect's swapfile.

painterly