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G'day.  I have a DataFrame XP40, that has gone belly-up on me, but the
error messages I am getting and the diagnostics I run, return opposing
information.

Basically I had a regular old system crash, while in Navigator (lost count
how many time this program has died on me.. but it's more usefull than
anything else I have, so it has a place on my HardDisk through necessity).

The system didn't recover, all I got was a ?, and booting off a floppy
failed to mount the DataFrame.  Running the latest DataFrame manager
utility, tells me that the Disk is in an uninitialised state.  Funny,
twas initialised just a sec ago, me thinks?

This is where I get the conflicting info.  The DataFrame manager diagnostic 
reports that the mechanism, controller and media are OK, however when I
initialise the disk, I get an error saying that there was a problem creating
a directory.

I also get an initialisation message from the finder, when it subsequently
tries to mount the drive on a re-boot.  This doesn't work either (no error..
it just doesn't work).

Anyone know why I might get the conficting information (if the controller
and media get the thumbs up?).  Anyone know, if there is actually a media
error, a way to patch around it, or have the DFManager flag it?

Stu.

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