🚀 go-pugleaf

I just spent an unpleasant two days trying to fix my hard drive after it
decided to go south. The story: playing with MiNT .95, running ICD 6.0.7
hard disk software. There's QuickST in the system, and that's it. I run
Laser C (I use it as an editor), which hangs. No keyboard reset, the machine
is gonzo down. I hit the reset switch, I get a BLACK SCREEN, then SuperBoot
pops up, I continue, MiNT does not run and hangs the machine. And that's
all she wrote, folks! My drive no longer boots. Can't recognize it when
I run ICDBOOT from floppy. None of the utility programs I have even recognize
that I had partitions on the thing. 

	Finally, I discover: the first 10 sectors of the drive are history.
I get 6 bytes of 0a, then the rest is padded with 08. To abbreviate:
only drive C was yonkered, I had to fill in partition information manually,
and I had to recopy the 2nd fat on drive C to where the 1st should have
been. CHKDSK tells me I have a few doubly-linked clusters now, and I recovered
about 18 lost clusters, but I can live with that.

	But I really really really don't want this to happen again. Does
anyone have a CLUE why this might have happened? I'm not running MiNT until
I can lay the blame at someone's feet. Thankx for your response.

cfaehl@polaris.unm.edu