Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Missing partition on HD (part 2) (Solution!!!)
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.154411.18598@doe.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Edit physical sector 0 
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <1990Oct20.155203.4378@doe.utoronto.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 90 15:44:11 GMT

Thank you to all those who helped me save my hard drive partition.
What I had to do was edit sector 0 of the physical drive and change
the partition type from EEM back to GEM. There was minor FAT damage,
but I retrieved all of my important files onto floppy.

To edit physical sector 0, I had a friend and registered developer
use her/his (sorry, Atari, no hints as to the person's identity)
CHKDISK3 program to change the partition type.

I am still having problems. The Megafile 30 is SCSI device 1 (LUN 0),
and the FAST 85 meg ICD drive is SCSI device 0. I am having EXTREME
problems writing to or reading from the megafile 30 (more than about
10 bytes, and there is corruption). It works fine hooked directly to
the computer, but poorly chained through the ICD drive. Do I need
to use shorted DMA cables?


David Megginson
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