Re: Vulcan HD going haywire

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <199604211956.PAA28998@verne.ifs.umich.edu>,
 <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
>Early last year I purchased a used 40 MB Vulcan hard drive.  After a few
>months, I began to get some odd disk errors.  Neither ProSel 16 nor the
>Finder could find any bad blocks (or any other problems) on either
>partition, so I reinstalled everything and hoped for the best.
[stuff deleted]
>The damage will start out confined to a single directory, but spreads as I
>get system messages like "Disk AE1 appears to be damaged.  Please move data
>to another disk."  Since I spend the great majority of my time in my GNO
>directory, that always seems to be the one affected.
>
>This morning, my GNO directory simply vanished (in addition to the
>partition it was on renaming itself with an 'e', as described above).
>I eventually found that the lost directory appeared when I used ProSel's
>"Sort Directory" function, but no other disk function would admit that it
>existed, not even "Exhume File".  I even tried deleted the GNO directory
>from the "Sort Directory" command, hoping Exhume would then be able to
>find it, but it couldn't.  So I'm screwed.
>
>If (as I suspect) my HD is trashed on too deep a level to be repairable
>(at least by me), does anyone have any suggestions for the best and/or
>cheapest GS-compatible hard drive obtainable these days?
>
>Thanks much in advance for any help.
>
>--
>Sean McAfee   --   mcafee@umich.edu   --   Conky 2000 Ready To Assist You!

Sounds to me like you're running some buggy software that's trashing the
directory periodically.  You mentioned GNO... you programming anything that
might be trashing the drive accidentally?  I'm disinclined to say that it's
the drive that's bad (especially when it checks OK)...