🚀 go-pugleaf

    Following the spate of questions in this group about compatability
problems between RISCOS3.1 and certain IDE interfaces and formaters,
I though just before I strip my machine down and install RISCOS3.1,
that I'd better check that nothing nasty will happen. I have a
RISC Developments 89Mb (unformatted, 85Mb formatted) IDE hard disc,
version no. (I forgot to look this morning, sorry, but it dates to
last christmas).

    Also, I have recently noticed that checkmap is returning a map
incosistent (sp?) error, and I don't know where the incosistency is.
Is there any way of finding out which file is under the incosistency,
and if there is, will deleting it and replacing it with a backup
cure the problem. I have accidentally deleted stuff from the disc before,
and used IDEFS_DiscOp to read the stuff into memory, and then writing
it to a fresh file, so can I do that (assuming that the file has not
already been overwritten).

    B.T.W. I have no way of taking a backup of the whole disc, re-
formatting it and then re-writing the data, as RISC Developments have
not seen fit to give us the formatters yet :-(

Yours hopefully

Gary J Palmer


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