At 10:54 AM 5/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
>DESGUI (a very nice program, BTW) seems to be causing headaches for
>ScanDisk. We have ScanDisk running from System Agent on a daily basis,
>but it makes no progress and just keeps re-running itself from the
>start. I think the problem is that the log file written by DESCHALL
>is causing ScanDisk to notice that the disk info has changed and
>therefore it restarts. Of course, every time a little dot gets written
>to this file, "things have changed" so ScanDisk never makes any
>progress.
>
>I pressed the "Pause" button on DESGUI and, sure enough, ScanDisk runs
>to completion.
>
>Is anyone else having this problem? Any workarounds? For the moment,
>I have disabled logging and am waiting to see how this works. Perhaps
>DESGUI can buffer the dots (somehow) and only dump them to disk every
>10 minutes or so.
>
>Andrew. asterian@umich.edu | Help crack DES in your computer's spare time!
>----------------------------| http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
>For the teddy bear who has |----------------------------------------------
>everything, a person. | Me: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~asterian
>
>