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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  What do you do about a trashed hard disk?
Message-ID: <3628@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 18:51:11 GMT
References: <chris.5660@genly.UUCP> <3617@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM> <chris.5928@genly.UUCP>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
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In article <chris.5928@genly.UUCP> chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) 
writes:
|>In article <3617@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM> dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM 
|>(Dale Snell) writes:
|>
|>     Say what?  DiskSalv most certainly *does* work on hard drives;
|
|Sorry, I wasn't very clear.  I meant disksalv doesn't actually fix the
|file system on the hard disk so that it can be validated.
| ...
|I was looking
|for something like the Unix fsck, or the MSDOS chkdsk.  

     Ah, I see.  I misunderstood.  You're right, DiskSalv won't fix
file-systems in place (though Dave Haynie has dropped a hint or two). 
An fsck-like facility is something that is really needed for the Amiga,
especially with hard drive capacities getting larger all the time.  I
sure could have used one, several times.  Dave?  How 'bout it?

                                    Seizure later,
				    --dds

Dale D. Snell      dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM      74756.666@compuserve.COM
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