From: jimh AT pantheon DOT yale DOT edu (J. Hormuzdiar) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Rhide crashes hard drive Date: 28 Mar 1997 19:24:38 GMT Organization: Yale University Lines: 97 Message-ID: <5hh5tm$dt4@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.cis.yale.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Hello again- Well, I received four responses to this posting, and all four said the same thing.... "you have a virus". So I decided to get the newest most up to date virus detection program and run it (I had already checked for viruses many times with my older software and found none)- and guess what- I found a virus!!!! (called the "hidenowt" virus). Well, thank you all for your replies.... I just wanted to come back and make it clear that it now looks like Rhide was in fact completely innocent in the harm done to my computer- So if anyone read my earlier post and was scared to install Rhide, don't be! It is a great program! -Jim J. Hormuzdiar (jimh AT pantheon DOT yale DOT edu) wrote: : Hello- : Rhide/DJGPP is a great combination, but I have been having a : horrible time with something lately.... : Rhide has been crashing my hard drive, jumbling directories, : deleting files. It has happened four times to me now. I have everything : backed up on zip disks so it is not a catastrophe, but it is quite a : nuscance. Every time it happens, I have to reformat the whole drive and : re-install everything.... and I usually lose at least a couple hours of : work. : The details are as follows.... Everything will be intact on my : hard drive, then I move to my project directory and type "Rhide". Unlike : the other 90%+ of the time when everything comes up fine, Rhide will come : up with the blank introductory screen that indicates no project is there. : At this point I have always just exited Rhide immediately and type "dir". : All times the directory is completely scrambled.... files are lost, new : files are added (often with the same names as files I have on the root : directory). And the damage isn't confined to the directory I am working : on.... everywhere on the hard drive are random scrambles, even whole : directories. Usually about 10% of the hard drive is "chomped" up. One : time it wasn't even confined to my e: drive (where I do my programming : work, and where Rhide is located), but also spread to my c: drive. : Running scandisk renders the hard drive once again usable, but can not : save most of the files that are last. : My system is as follows- : 1). 486DX-33 Silicon Star Motherboard (AKA "Abit"), 8Megs of ram : 2). 2 WD hard drives- one 350Meg, one 1.6Gig, and 1 1.44 floppy : drive. : 3). Promise IDE controller (which includes an addition to the bios : that allows me to access the whole 1.6Gig hard drive.... my motherboard's : 4 year old bios was too limited to do this). : 5). AWE value edition sound card : 6). Teac 6x cdrom : 7). US Robotics 33.6 baud modem with fax and voice mail. : 8). Ethernet card plugged in but not being used. : 9). extra Hercules monochrome card and monitor. : 10). Trident VGA card. : 11). Iomega zip drive connected through parallel port (but this : was never connected nor was the software present when the problems : occurred). : Of all this hardware, I am most suspicious that the promise card : is part of the problem, as it is an unusual device that deals with hard : drive organization.... plus I have to run a special driver to get it to : work. : I know that the problem is not due to a corrupt "Rhide" file, as I : have re-downloaded it and the problem occurred again.... I am also : relatively certain that it is not due to a virus, as I ran anti-virus : software and found nothing (although I must admit that my virus software : is not up to date). The problem seems specific to Rhide in that I have : never had this problem running any other software, although in the last : month Rhide has done it four times. And I doubt that it is because of : DJGPP, because in all cases when the problem occurred, all I did was start : Rhide and stop it (there was no compilation or running of software). : Furthermore, the problem only started with a version of Rhide 1.1 : (one of the intermediary versions only available on R. Hoehne's web page). : Earlier versions never had this problem. : Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have clues on how I : can solve it? : Thank you : -Jim