Re: Here's a weird SHK problem, plus, cold booting RamFAST issue...

["Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>]

My only thought and I have no idea how valid it is, is that maybe the
unshrinking program or whatever was filling up the hard disk by allocating
blocks by marking them as used in the bitmap block.  In that case, no file
would actually appear to use those blocks but they wouldn't be free either.
On MS-DOS filesystems, this is called lost clusters.  They are clusters
which are marked used in the FAT but aren't actually used by a file.  Thus,
backing up, reformatting and restoring would solve the problem, as a
reformat would restore all the blocks/clusters to free status.

Jayson.

"Richard Kilpatrick" <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote in message
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> I was trying to unpack the spyhunter.bsq. Used GSCII+ to convert it, then
> unpacked. It claimed to have finished, but it didn't write an EOF; calmly
> sat there apparently filling the HD.
>
> Went back to GS/OS, my HD was 5-8Mb down (tried it on both the ProDOS and
> HFS volumes), couldn't recover it by deleting anything obvious. Claimed to
> have 27Mb on disk.
>
> Dragged all files (including hidden ones) to make a backup, the backup was
> only 19Mb, as I thought my drive had been. Initialized the ProDOS
partition
> and dragged everything back - 19Mb, everything is working.
>
> Where did the data go to? Not a file, clearly... But something.
>
> Also - when the IIgs has been off overnight, I start it like this:
Monitor,
> HD unit, wait for HD to make 'I'm happy' noise, start GS. It freezes on
the
> startup screen. Three fingered salute results in offset characters (40
> columns) and locked up. Off, on, and the next step is RamFAST complaining
of
> a Fatal Memory Error=0C.
>
> Again, off and on, and the next step is RamFAST looking for SCSI devices.
> Then it works, and is alright until switched off for the night.
>
> Strange. Whilst thinking about memory, where would I find the 1Mb x 4 DIP
> DRAMs needed to upgrade to 1Mb cache on the RamFAST?
>
> Richaqrd
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