From: Paul Harness Subject: Re: GDB corruped my hard disk *&!"*&@ To: berend AT beard DOT nest DOT nl Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 13:10:14 +0100 (BST) Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp) > PH> I tried out GDB yesterday. After a good start, experimenting > PH> on an application of a few thousand lines, it suddenly > PH> crashed, leaving the hard disk light on. The only option was > PH> to reboot! As a result my hard disk is SERIOUSLY CORRUPTED > PH> :-((, and I'm writing this on another machine. > > Your FAT is probably not updated. It should be no problem to fix this if > you have PCTools and regularly run mirror. Just run DiskFix and voila. > Norton DiskDoctor repaired some of the damage. > The problem is not due to djgpp, but to your reboot. You have a > diskcache installed? > Since GDB locked up my machine, what else could I do except reboot? -- Paul Harness, | Internet: gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk Department of Physics and Astronomy, | University of Glasgow, | Tel +44-41-339-8855 ext 8359 Glasgow, G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. | Fax +44-41-334-9029