@#$!!! Now my Vulcan won't boot!

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

I knew I should not have come back to c.s.a2...all the time I was gone, my
computers performed flawlessly.  Now I'm having trouble with the //e.

FIRST, THE HISTORY LESSON...
Some years ago when I bought my IIgs, it has a Vulcan-GS/20 in it.  Then I
picked up an Apple high-speed SCSI card and a SCSI hard drive.  I mounted
the SCSI drive in the Vulcan case and hooked it up to the SCSI card.  That
left me with a Vulcan interface and an IDE hard drive.

I swapped Vulcan cards with someone who was using a Vulcan //e on his
IIgs; he now has my Vulcan GS card and I have his Vulcan //e card.  Fine. 
I mounted the IDE drive under the keyboard of my //e, tapped it into the
power supply, and connected the Vulcan card.  It works beautifully.  My
//e now boots to BASIC.SYSTEM in under three seconds.

---END HISTORY---

Okay, so at one end of the desk I have the IIgs, at the other end I have
the //e.  I have not yet managed to get a null-modem set up between them,
though the //e does have an SSC.  So I'm using Sneakernet to move files
from one to the other.  See, there is a good reason for still having a
5.25" drive on my GS.

The other night, I did something stupid.  I was copying files (amusement
park trip reports) into an archive directory on the //e, using Copy ][+. 
I was copying the files into...

/RAVEN/COASTER/REPORTS/R1999/

...and all was good so long as I was copying files such as "USCP01".

Then I got to my vacation stories.  These I made the mistake of trying to
put into...

/RAVEN/COASTER/REPORTS/R1999/PNWTRIP/

All went well with the first few files, then Copy ][+ just died.  8-(

I restarted the system and ran C][+ again.  This time, it couldn't even
read that directory.

I tried running the ProDOS Filer.  It couldn't do anything with that
directory either.

I was able to list the offending directory, but all the file names and
file types were messed up.

I ran ProSel on it, and it seemed to work.  Okay, so it "fixed" all the
file creation dates from 2000 (grrr...) but it fixed the directory and
made it so that C][+ could delete the files and delete the offending
directory.  I copied the files into...

/RAVEN/COASTER/REPORTS/PNWTRIP99/

and the system seemed to be happy.

Trouble is, now, while the directories are OK, the files are OK, but the
disk won't boot.  I can boot from a floppy (I was using the Vulcan
utilities disk) and then run /RAVEN/PRODOS and the system comes up, but I
can't get the system to boot by itself.

Any suggestions for how I might fix the boot sector on this drive without
trouncing the rest of the contents?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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