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- RDB-Salv - Salvage of lost RDSK/RDB data
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- INTRO
- Have you ever lost your RigidDiskBlock? Therefore you know that it is
- very difficult to restore this data if you don't have a backup of it.
- Many people even think that it is almost impossible to restore a lost
- RigidDiskBlock, but this is not the case.
-
- Should there be a repeated loss of your RigidDiskBlock, you might want
- to try out RDB-Salv - a professional and user friendly program to
- restore lost RigidDiskBlocks.
-
- Since a backup is better than any attempt to restore anything,
- RDB-Salv additionally includes a backup tool for restoring
- RigidDiskBlocks, which saves the RDB onto a file.
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-
- REQUIREMENTS
- RDB-Salv requires OS 2.04 or better. It should work with any hard disk
- system (SCSI, AT-Bus, OMTI, ...) that supports trackdisk commands.
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- FUNCTIONS
- - Backup RigidDiskBlock to file
- - Restore RigidDiskBlock from file
- - Read RigidDiskBlock (optionally scans hard disk while looking for
- lost RDBs). This function additionally provides the following
- features:
- o Write MountLists of all partition blocks found
- o Mount partitions of all partition blocks found
- o Add lost partition block(s) to RDSK
- o Write whole RDSK
- If any partition has not been mounted during booting time, you may
- also use this function on order to mount it later. This is a useful
- side effect. ;-)
- - Read DeviceList
- If you have just overwritten your RigidDiskBlocks, but all
- partitions are still mounted, you can in that way try to restore the
- data from the DeviceList. The following functions are available:
- o Write MountLists of all partitions found
- o Add lost partitions to RDSK
- o Write whole RDSK
- - Salvage of RigidDiskBlocks
- This function scans the whole hard disk and looks for any AmigaDOS
- partition. My A1000 scans about 100 MB per minute. If any partition
- has been found, it will be displayed at once. Overlapping partitions
- will be marked. Unused spaces are shown, too.
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-
- FEATURES
- - Easy to use.
- - Very good manual (printed and as AmigaGuide document).
- - Support of very large SCSI hard disks (>4 GB) through HD_SCSICMD.
- - Support of very large media, if they support the "new style"
- standard and implement NSCMD_TD_READ64.
- - Support of blocksize 512, 1024, 2048, ...
- - Use of locale.library, if available.
- - Support of many languages.
- - Fontsensitive GUI.
- - Each function that changes anything on your hard disk brings up a
- requester before changing anything.
- - Many workarounds for buggy hard disk devices. This should support
- nearly any hard disk system.
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- LIMITATIONS
- When using "Salvage", RDB-Salv can only find lost AmigaDOS partitions
- (DOS/0 to DOS/5). It is possible to add support for other filesystems,
- but I will only do this if enough people register. Furthermore, it is
- necessary that all partitions of the hard disk contain "Reserved=2"
- and "PreAlloc=0", otherwise you might run into trouble. But I don't
- know anybody with any other value there.
-
- Many scsi devices and other hard disk devices are buggy. They do not
- handle TD_GETGEOMETRY correctly. I've tried to do my best to work
- around these bugs, but I cannot guarantee that it really works with
- _every_ hard disk system. Should you encounter any difficulties, send
- me a bugreport and I will do my best to support your system in the
- next version.
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- PRICE
- 30 DM plus shipping costs.
- 10 DM supplement for printed manual.
-
- Programmers might want to get a registered version of RDB-Salv in
- exchange with one of their registered programs. However I only accept
- _good_ programs which follow the style guide rules and are not too
- hacky.
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- AVAILABILITY
- You can download an unregistered version from my homepage:
- http://home.pages.de/~Angela/
-
- If you decide to register, you can order the registered version at:
- Katrin Schmidt
- Finkenweg 26
- 89233 Neu-Ulm
- Germany
-
- Please add the following shipping costs:
- Within Germany ................... 5 DM
- Without manual, within Europe .... 5 DM
- With manual, within Europe .......10 DM
- Without manual, outside Europe ...10 DM
- With manual, outside Europe ......20 DM
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