Error in SFS - freezes my machine completely!

Hi everybody,

First: My system, for those that don't know, is an A4000/Prometheus Voodoo III, Deneb system. The HDD is a Maxtor Atlas 36GB UWSCSI drive.

Anyhoo.. today it did a strange thing. Running AmiUpdate as usual, there was an error in the filesystem, it couldn't find a block or something, A function therefore failed, something like GetLocalTime() or something. Nothing seemed too wrong though so I didn't worry about it.

Now, however, when I boot the Amiga, I can't open System4.0:, my boot partition. Other partitions are fine. Equally, AmiDock just freezes. It doesn't respond to anything.

I tried disabling the WBStartUp and everything works ok... so, it looks like a problem with AmiDock? Hence I make a backup copy and delete it. Or at least I try to. Deleting AmiDock.info locks the system solid (and doesn't delete the file).

Reboot no Startup-sequence. Delete AmiDock#?... hangs solid on AmiDock.info.

Everything I do with AmiDock.info hangs the system solid.

When I get home I'll try to delete AmiDock itself, but I don't want to have to! What's wrong with it? The filesystem should never hang solid on trying to delete a file. It even did so under 3.9 (I dual-boot my system).

How do I fix this? This is running the latest (AFAIK) SFS filesystem.

Any advice gratefully appreciated..... but this also seems to be a bug that needs to be fixed (it should give an error - never lock the system up solid like this when accessing a file).

@Spirantho

Quote:It could be the device driver as well which hangs and not SFS.

Quote:There is no repair tool for SFS, you have to reformat the partition and restore a backup. But first please use "Check" in PartitionWizard with ToolType LOGFILE=ram:pw.log on AmigaOS4, or SFSCheck on AmigaOS 3.x, on the partition and send me the output. But if it's the device driver, or even the HD itself, which hangs it will very likely happen with PartitionWizard and SFSCheck as well.

This is the log from SFSCheck:


Partition start offset : 0x00000000:00100000 End offset : 0x00000000:80738000
Surfaces : 2 Blocks/Track : 4
Bytes/Block : 512 Sectors/Block : 1
Total blocks : 4207040
Device interface : (standard)

Checking RootBlocks
...okay
Checking AdminSpaceContainers at block 2
...okay
Checking NodeContainers at block 7
ObjectContainer at block 4315 doesn't contain node 101
...damaged

It appears to stop there though.. so there may be other errors?