Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!ousrvr!news From: nix@stekt.oulu.fi (Tero Manninen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Recovering data from hard disk Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 18:12:31 GMT References: <1990Sep17.221956.15323@agora.uucp> Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oulu, Dept. of EE, Finland Lines: 34 In-reply-to: billsey@agora.uucp's message of Tue, 18 Sep 90 14:36:05 GM Dave Haynie writes: > You can write up a dummy partition, if you like, using a Mountlist, > and give that to DiskSalv instead of the automounting partitions, > if that's easier. Just create a MountList entry, Mount it, and give that > name to DiskSalv as an input file. It probably wouldn't be too difficult > to write a small utility that does this automatically. I did just that and found the second partition being 100% ok. The first partition should be now fine with DiskSalv since only a few cylinders got formatted. It was my luck that I found an old SupraFormat generated MountList.. Bill Seymour writes: > It's also possible that the drive parameters are different between > the two controller softwares. I know that my Maxtor XT-3280S > which has 1224 cylinders, 25 sectors/track and 15 surfaces shows > up on the 3000 as 1310 cylinders, 350 sectors/track and one > surface. Very close to the same number of total blocks, but > confusing at times... Yes, the problem was that A590 thought my Seagate was a bit different from what Supra knew.. Supra: Cylinders 1-604, Heads 4, Sectors/Cyl. 26 A590: Cylinders 2-610, Heads 1, Sectors/Cyl. 103 I don't know exactly how many blocks my drive has (Seagate model 138(something)) but both come close to the same number. (Supra seems to reserve only one cylinder for the partition information unlike A590). ++Tero