Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!drivax!liberato From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Rigid Disk Block specs Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 90 22:23:34 GMT Reply-To: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, California Lines: 32 While doing some naughty experimenting with the mountlist in the RDB section of my hard disk I corrupted it and was not able to restore it. I have used GVP's installation program with manual parameters before with no problems but this time nothing I did would restore it. What I realized is that I really didn't know what I was doing! Does anyone have any kind of specs (official or otherwise) on this autobooting standard that I think CBM and a few controller manufacturers agreed on about a year and a half ago? I was left with default icons for the partitions which said DH0:NDOS and DH1:NDOS which I guess stands for no dos. They where not accessible through any normal means, even by creating a manual mounlist in Devs:. Let this also be a testimonial to the wonders of Disksalv. It was the ONLY thing I could find that would read the data on the disk. Since the second partition was a backup of the first and they were both gone I had to spend a pleasant Saturday afternoon feeding Disksalv 48 floppies. I was able to completely reconstruct the disk with no complications. Again, I anyone has information on the RDB specification please contact me. Thanks! -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato Lifetime member of the Dave Haynie is God club!