At 12:31 PM 11/18/94, Chris Jones wrote:
> busy wrote:
>> Chris Jones wrote:
>> >
>> >clobbered parts of my disk.  After running the System 7 version of
>> >mkfs, I've encountered bad files on my Mac partitions and ended up
>> >with newly fs'ed partitions that BSD doesn't like -- it says that the
>> >superblock doesn't match the first alternate.  This has happened on
>>
>> What hard disk foramtting software are you using to partition? Are your
>> drivers up to date? What version of "System 7" are you running?
>
>Sorry; I should've included that information.  I've got a 1.4Gig
>Fujitsu drive which was formatted (and given a driver) with APS 2.7.3
>under System 7.1.

I'd say try reinitializing and partitioning (make sure to replace the
driver) with some other software, like FWB's HDT or LaCie's SilverLining.
Won't hurt _that_ much to give it a whirl, and there's a good possibility
that you'll solve your problem. I know that APS's older drivers flaked
under 7.5, maybe bsd found a similar failure mode.

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