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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 11:38:03 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92360.113803LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Disk validating in 2.0 ??
- References: <1992Nov28.201258.5485@netcom.com> <jam.3633@jammys.ocunix.on.ca>
- <1992Dec2.042038.19111@netcom.com> <1992Dec6.085443.4269@ra.msstate.edu>
- <1992Dec6.204823.16044@netcom.com> <38028@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In article <38028@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave
- Haynie) says:
- [discussion about disk recovery deleted]
- >
- >more with a bad block than simply remove it from your directory tree, you're
- >talking about lots of clever code. There is a reason ole Peter Norton built
- >a business out of doing basically this thing for you. If you haven't run s
- >across a problem CHKDSK doesn't fix, you're just plain lucky.
-
- I have personally encountered a massive file system crash on a PC a
- couple of years ago. I encountered ~100 file blocks that don't belong
- anywhere to the chain. After fixing with Norton DiskDoctor, the number
- were up to ~ 1000 a few days later. All the fancy TUI (the UI was done
- in Text. :) is a pain if you want to recover a few hundred files. I
- wished I had a disksalv for DOS... :) Tools like Norton are for minor
- repairs only.
-
- >Though I do agree that the Amiga should have at least a basic fix-up
- >program included with the OS release. One that you can't trust is worse
- >than none at all (the decision they made for 2.1).
-
- I made the same decision on my workbench disk since 1.2 :) :) :)
- I am looking forward to seeing the new DiskSalv. I have just bought a
- Quantum Pro 40S (used at a really attractive price) for hacking SCSI
- stuff and DiskSalv usage. Now if only DiskSalv can save its data
- structures (as a file) so that I can restore 40 meg chunks at a time
- without having to rescan the whole drive every time.
-
- >Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
-
- K. C. Lee
- Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
-