Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!floyd From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: Hard Disk Repair Tricks on a Two-Drive System Keywords: Hard Disk Repair Message-ID: <1991Mar26.155157.15483@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 26 Mar 91 15:51:57 GMT References: <1991Mar26.074933.868@tc.fluke.COM> Organization: University of Alaska, Institute of Marine Science Lines: 18 In article <1991Mar26.074933.868@tc.fluke.COM> vince@tc.fluke.COM (Craig Johnson) writes: >This posting covers several tricks I came up with while trying to repair >a 20M Miniscribe hard disk by connecting it to a two-drive 3B1 with the >bad disk set up as the second drive. Most or all of these tricks can be >applied to hard disk repairs on a single-drive system if you boot from a >floppy file system and have the appropriate utilities available on it. A very interesting article. It should be archived on osu-cis. I don't think Craig had that in mind when he wrote it, but maybe he could be encouraged to give it a once over edit for just that purpose (Craig?). Floyd -- Floyd L. Davidson | floyd@ims.alaska.edu | Alascom, Inc. pays me Salcha, AK 99714 | Univ. of Alaska | but not for opinions.