Re: GNO Trashed my Hard Drive!

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From: Jawaid Bazyar
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:08

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damin@habermann.cba.csuohio.edu (Greg Boehnlein) writes:

>	Can any of you GNO guru's explain why this simple mistake caused
>GNO to trash my Hard Drive btimap???

>tc &

>I KNOW that you shouldn't background Telcom and still try to use the
>shell, but it was an honest and simple mistake. Now I have lost
>EVRYTHING on the 85 Megger including chunks of the partition map!

>Is there some way to prevent this from happening in the future? And why
>WOULD it do this?

>SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! Welp..I guess it's time to re-install all that
>software I was planning on...

  I'm sorry for what happened, but I'm afraid that unless it is 
reproduceable, nothing can be done.  It seems like one of those
things that could happen by any piece of software going a bit
berzerk; a jump into the wrong place in GS/OS (or memory-trashing
GS/OS cache memory before it gets purged) could cause a hard
drive to get messed up.
  So, in short, it's really one of those unfortunate things that
can happen in any program.
  FWIW, during initial GNO testing I bg'd TelCom with no ill effects.

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