Re: Help with IIgs disk volume problem

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In article <5d3sn1$ia7@gandalf.Advent.COM>, smcgroga@gandalf.Advent.COM
(Stephen McGrogan) writes:

>
>My son copied one volume from our Rom 1's 6-partition disk over
>to a 1-partition disk on his new Rom 3.
>
>When he tried to boot the new disk an amazing thing happened.
>His disk "Davids.disk" appeared on the finder screen.
>Next a warning message came up declaring that a disk with a
>duplicate name "Davids.disk" was about to be mounted.
>
>.... this procedure was repeated 4 more times until
>there were Davids.disk thru Davids.disk22222 all happily mounted
>on the finder. .... all of them except Davids.disk22222 had actually
>ceased to exist.  An attempt to open any of the first five icons
>resulted in an endless repetition of a popup window requesting
>that the disk be mounted. ....


     Nathan's suggestion may fix things. (By the way,  the SCSI faq is
packed with good stuff for SCSI users to know.)  Something else to try for
weird Finder problems is to delete DESKTOP in the ICONS folder.


>
>.... Prosel's manual claimed that block warden could edit
>block 2, but block >warden (or zap)
>doesn't seem to be on the Prosel distribution disk.
>....

     In ProSel-16, Zap (Block Warden) can be accessed from the main
program. After starting, press ESC to get to the "Main Menu".


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