#POV Bug?
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Hi, I used a batch file with POV to generate graphics while I slept. When I
awoke the hard drive I had been writing to was trashed big-time. I suspect it
ran out of room, but the partition table, FAT, directories i.e. my whole world
were gone. Thank God for back-ups. Anybody heard of this happening before?
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Jim, I've run out of harddrive a lot of times (doing animations from
batchfiles. Never had anything like that happen. You using any sort of
stacker-like compression or anything else unusual?
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type Hi Dan, Glad to hear it isn't common. I have stacker on drive C but drive
D where the incident occurred is pure IDE uncompressed DOS 5.0 flatland. I am
running a 486 33 and have never had anything like this happen before. I don't
even know that POV caused it but it and the batch file were all that was
running when I went to bed. Could be something related to the drive itself I
suppose. Anyway thanks for the reply, I'll keep checking.
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I've also run out of space on my hard drive this way, but
I've never had any real problems. I occationally get bad files,
but I think it's strictly the swap file and TGA files (it happens
generally when I RESET out of POV). They always clean up fine with
Norton. There was a problem I had twice, but I don't know if POV
was involved. One sector (same one twice) of my root directory
got trashed, and I had to go into Norton and do some repairs by
hand, but no data was lost.
According to your description, it sounds like *something* in
the DOS enviroment was at fault. Even an out of control program
isn't supposed to get easy access to those areas. $0.02
signed, Not-A-DOS-Expert <G>
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