Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 5378 |
Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Read/write error !! Hi everyone here is an easy one for you. I have a DCMS Deluxe Music Master something i forgot to take the name of the disc, still. Beeing new to the amiga 500 i've read that it was wise to make a copy of the original disk annd use the other one. So with one of my copiers whiich one i foorgot again i've got X-copy, marauder, mirror ... there i went put the new disk in and : read/write error message, so try an other copier same thing but this time i had the masterdisk with same message. I must have forgotten to protect the disk..... Can I do something to arrange the master there is about 4 blocks comming with the error message all in the "upper llevel of the disk". I can borrow someones disks to try to restore the faulty blocks but i don't know which one and the things too be looking for as they are not too much self explanatory. Any help will be much appreciated, Patrick P.S. Is there an safe way to copy masters...
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3566.1 | WELMTS::FINNIS | Peter Finnis at Welwyn | Fri Mar 09 1990 11:08 | 7 | |
X-Copy Should be a safe enough way to back up the disk . Just make sure that Your Friends disk is WRITE PROTECTED Pete | |||||
3566.2 | read / write error | PEKING::NONDEP | Fri Mar 09 1990 11:25 | 9 | |
Thanks Pete, This gives me the answer for the next backups that i will do tonight Still hoping for some info on the read/write error message so that i can restore my original music disc. Patrick | |||||
3566.3 | TRKDSP? | BOMBE::MOORE | Eat or be eaten | Fri Mar 09 1990 21:02 | 3 |
There's a little utility that will display the current track being accessed on the floppy. I think it's in TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD]TRKDSP.LZH. That may tell you which tracks have errors. | |||||
3566.4 | Read / write PB | PEKING::NONDEP | Sat Mar 10 1990 04:51 | 26 | |
Thanks for the tip, But i know which tracks are at fault i've got something that shows which track,cylinder,or file but i don't know how to cure the files the last thing i saw last night was could not find header message !! Still chineese for me. The other thing is that they are located on track 33,34,35,36,37 side one or upper which here again is chineese i thought up to now that the amiga 500 was using only one side of the floppy .... I've tried diskdoctor but i don't have sufficient understanding of it working. It also locates the faulty file but when it asks me to delete or not the read error files and after that to make some sort of backup how can i make a backup of something i've deleted ? P.S.I'm playing with an other copies of DCMS to test various options as i've already mess up the original backup Thanks also for the location of the utility, but i don't 1 know how to access it 2 maybee have the hardware for it I believe the answer to above is somewhere in this conference Patrick | |||||
3566.5 | read error | PEKING::NONDEP | Tue Mar 13 1990 09:15 | 7 | |
Re .1 .3 Does anyone have a clue for me on how to cure the faulty tracks only four or five I might have the right software but don't have access to the Net files. What should i be looking at ? Thanks in advance, Patrick |