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In comp.os.msdos.apps, pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) writes:
>
>Ok here's the story.  Run the SuperStor utilities program SSUTIL
>to check the disk and verify the file system.  In other words, read the
>manual.
>

Believe me, I read the manual.  And reread the manual.  And ran
SSUTIL a half a dozen time.

>Superstor ran into a bad spot on the disk when it was compressing the
>file system.  It refused to move your files over it.
>
>If you hadn't deleted the files -- the SuperStor utility ssutil would
>enable you to fix the bad spots and recover the data with no problems.
>Right now you've got a file system inconsistancy that's making the
>Superstor driver mark it as a read only file system.
>

As I said in the original post, I was not able to delete any files
in DOS because the drive was write protected.  I would run SSUTIL
REPAIR, it would repair files with errors and ask what to do with
them.  After choosing the rename option, I would run repair again.
The same files (renamed) would come up with errors.  I finally
had to choose the delete option.  Repair then came up with a whole
new set of bad files.  I deleted these also, and that seemed to
do the trick.  (Yes delete was working within SSUTIL and not DOS)

>Ssutil will correct the inconsistancy internally and tell you to run
>fsck -- errr...  ooops I mean chkdisk to fix it for MS-DOS.
>

I was also running chkdsk (see, I did read the manual) a multitude
of times thru all of this.  The /f switch wouldn't work because
(I assume) the drive was write protected.

>Hell - I've got flaky Perstor PS180 controllers RLLing MFM drives and
>I've never had a problem that ssutil couldn't fix.
>

Congratulations

>Bill
>
>(DR-DOS6 user who upgraded to SSTOR 1.3 because of how reliable it's been)
>

BTW, thanks again to all of you out there who emailed me helpful
replies.  The trauma is over, and I will attempt to defrag more and
trust the documentation less.

		   Cat

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