ARGHS! Vulcan 20

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Is this expected behavior for an ancient Vulcan-GS drive, equipped with a
Vulcan-IIe card and running in an enhanced ][e...

I have a large database that I maintain (75k...the Roller Coaster Almanac)
which consists of a random access text file with random record lengths,
and an index file pointing to some of the entries in the main file.

Well, today I went to run a report on this file and found out that the
index file had been trashed.  The index file is 366 10-byte records. 
Spurious characters have appeared in this file.  The odd part?  ONLY the
data bytes were affected, and only a few of the records were damaged. 
"2941" became "2046"; "2841" became "24<1"; crap like that.

Did I just get lucky, or is my drive dying?  Anyone else have this kind of
trouble?  I've never known bad blocks to be so selective...!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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