[Coco] toolshed tools lock up on ?FS ERROR disks

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Feb 5 22:07:10 EST 2017


> On Feb 5, 2017, at 8:32 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> ?FS errors are generally caused by a bad GAT.
> 
> Sometimes, this is caused by the GAT having been written to Track 0, Sector
> 2 instead of Track 17, Sector 2, due to a bug that hits when the drive head
> gets confused about what track it is on and hits the Track 0 stop in
> seeking the correct track.  So, you might want to look for data resembling
> an intact GAT in Track 0, Sector 2 and, if you find it, see if the FS error
> goes away when you copy this sector to Track 17, Sector 2.

Thanks, Art. I’ll do some poking around with … COLORZAP? Whatever the one is that looks like just OS-9’s dEd.

		— Allen




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