#: 16833 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    01-Nov-92  12:10:34
Sb: #sback
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: all

If anyone has tried my sback program, I'd appreciate some feedback. I'm having
a terrible time with it (the fact that I wrote it just makes it all the more
frustrating). Here's the problem: If I use the -f flag to format the disks I
end up with the following:

 1. after the backup I can read/write to the new disk,
 2. however, I can't access the original disk anymore. Chd, etc all report
    an error. This applies to any other "normal" disk.
 3. If I reboot I can read "normal" disks again. However, the backup disk is
    now unreadable.
 4. I've not been able to do anything to enable the reading of the "backup"
    disk.

As a test, I used DED to copy LSN0 of a "backup" disk to a temp file. Then I
rebooted and did the same for the original disk... Doing a CMP on the two files
shows that LSN0 is identical on the two disks.

If I pre-format the backup disk (and don't use the -f option) all works fine.

In trying to get this to work I've modified SBACK so that no files are open
when doing the format and spent a lot of time looking for erratic pointers...
no luck.

Anyone out there have any bright (or not-so-bright) ideas????

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