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Re: SuperStor

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From: Bill Pechter
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:55
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In article <29065@oasys.dt.navy.mil> cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller) writes:
>Help!
>
>Finding myself running out of space on my 120 Meg hard drive,
>I purchased SuperStore to compress my disk.
>  Everything was going just fine until I decided to defragment the disk.  
> It got about 2/3 through and then stopped, giving a message that it had 
>found errors.

> Much to my dismay, I discovered any effort to do
>anything to my drive resulted in a 'write protected' error.
>

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.

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.

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

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

Bill

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

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From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter)
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Subject: Re: SuperStor
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Date: 29 Dec 92 22:55:54 GMT
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