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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA questions.
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Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 19:42:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 19:42:20 1987
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In article <1987Mar17.090751.6370@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> wagner@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes:
>I'd just like to point out that DISKDOCTOR isn't perfect, and sometimes fails.
>Moreover, it writes back over your original disk, so if it fails, it may make
>furthur recovery efforts difficult.  DISKSALV, originally posted by Dave
>Haynie (sp?) of Commodore, attempts to copy your files to a new disk.
>A much better approach.  This utility was recently re-posted (without source)
>to the net.  It's also on Fish disk 20.
>
>Michael

I'd just like to point out that DISKSALV isn't perfect, and sometimes fails.
Not a programming fault, it is just that sometimes diskdrives aren't aligned
correctly, or the disk isn't put in perfectly.  Don't run DiskDoctor on a
disk if there is a prayer in the world of saving it other wise.  I find that 
if a disk won't read I can change drives (or Amigas) and the disk is new.  I
even have a Xerox Workbench disk that has died many times and I just toss it
across the room and go pick it up, put in back in and get two more weeks of
life out of it.  If I didn't back that disk up weekly of course it would never
come back, but I won't let it screw me, so it is waiting to go bad forever
until I forget and don't back up something important.
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