From: gbluhm@galapagos.East.Sun.COM (Gerald Bluhm - Sun USOPS IR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HD problems
Keywords: Rodime
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:41:48 GMT
Reply-To: gbluhm@galapagos.East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
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Sorry this is so long, but...

About a month ago, I posted a question (attached below) about some disk
problems I was having.  The responses I got generally indicated that I should
back everything up, try Disk First Aid, maybe Norton Utilities, and then I
would probably have to reformat the disk anyway.

Well, it took this long for me to try anything because a couple of mail-order
vendors had some SPECIAL package deals with Norton Utilities, so I kept
waiting for deliveries, but that's another story...

Anyway, Disk First Aid simply told me there was a problem with the disk that
it couldn't handle.  (BTW, the verbage that came up with error -43 was "The
filename xxxxxx couldn't be written because a disk error occurred."

After cancelling two mail orders, I finally got Norton Utilities.  I ran
the Disk Doctor utility (I think that's what it's called), and was told that
my hard disk's root directory had a problem and the Norton Utilities couldn't
fix it.

OK, so I'd backed everything up on a couple of removeables (they're great!)
and reformatted the hard disk.  I installed a fresh copy of System 7 (no more
System 6), and recovered all my data from the removeables.  Everything appeared
to be working for about a week.

A lot of the files that were backed up on the removeables were backed up
in DiskDoubler compressed format.  Since reinstalling them on the hard disk,
several had been decompressed with no problem.   BUT, last night, I decompressed
another one, and since then I can't get WordPerfect 2.0.4 to come up.  Even a
fresh copy won't come up (although WordPerfect 1.x has no problem).  I'm seeing 
two messages one right after the other:

"Bad file name or volume name (-37)"

"Disk full!  Please free some disk space on the volume that contains
the temporary files."

I get the latter message several times.  But the disk isn't full... there's
over 60 MB available!

So where do I go from here?  Is Rodime still around?  Anyone know how I can get
in touch with them?  The driver and formatter are several years old, and I'm
wondering if there might be some problem with them and System 7.

What other choices do I have, besides junking the disk?

Thanks to all who actually read all this, and especially to those who have
some helpful hints.

Gerry

gerald.bluhm@East.Sun.COM
>Got a Mac II, 8MB RAM, 140 MB Rodime hard drive, 44 MB LaCie removeable.
>
>I had both System 6 and System 7 on the 140 MB drive, using SystemSwitcher to go
>back and forth.
>
>The disk was filling up... it was down to its last 5 MB.  So I decided to
>buy Salient's compression software, AutoDoubler and DiskDoubler.  I installed
>both, and watched as space opened up on the disk.  Soon there were 40 MB freed
>up, then 50 MB.
>
>Coincidentally (perhaps?), soon after doing this, I could no longer create
>new files or folders.  I kept getting error -127, which I can't find in the
>IM set, but I'm told it's a Menu Manager error.  I tried rebuilding the desktop,
>and tried booting without any Inits, and things got worse.  On a couple of reboots,
>the screen was wavey, then the Mac wouldn't reboot at all.  Not sure what I did,
>but I finally got it to start booting again off the System 6 folder.  System 7
>was pretty much gone.  
>
>I've built a new System 7 on the removeable but I can't get it on the hard
>drive, usually due to error -127 (seems to me that a couple of times the
>phrase "unknown reason" came up too, but maybe I dreamt that).
>
>Suddenly I'm getting a new error.  When I try to open a WordPerfect file on
>the hard drive, I get error -43, File Not Found.  
>
>Everything works fine on the removeable.  I can copy files to it and create new
>files and folders with no problem.
>
>I ran Disinfectant on the two drives, and it came up with nothing.  However, one
>interesting thing I noticed was that it found 4098 files on the hard drive, which
>is suspiciously close to 4096.  So one question is: Is there a limit to the number
>of files I can have?  The Salient manuals mention a figure in the 2000's for
>System 6, but I'm obviously well past that.  I did find at one point that if
>I deleted a bunch of files, I was able to create a few new ones, but the number
>of new files I was able to create wasn't close to the number of files I'd
>deleted.
>
>I've tried re-installing the Rodime driver... it either doesn't do anything or
>it's incredibly fast.  In any event, it hasn't improved anything.
>
>Should I get Norton Utilities?  It's been suggested, but I don't
>want to spend the $90+ unless it's going to help.
>
>Any help or comments will be greatly appreciated!!
>
>Thanks,
>Gerry Bluhm		(Gerald.Bluhm@east.sun.com)
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