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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk recovery/check programs
Message-ID: <2847@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 14:58:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 14:58:04 1987
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in article <2836@cbmvax.UUCP>, schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) says:
> In article <580@radio.toronto.edu> cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>>
>> There's got to be a better way of recovering crashed HDs than
>>DiskDoctor. 
>   There is!
>>
>> So ... *does* anyone have a better way of recovering HDs than
>>DiskDoctor. 
>   Use DiskSalv. Its on a Fish disk (sorry I don't have the # handy). It works
>   with hard drives and unlike DiskDoctor does NOT fool with the original disk.

Uhhh, well, uhhh, that's half right (as opposed to half wrong, of course).  The
latest released DiskSalv, V1.0, doesn't muck with your original disk, and it's
often much smarter than DiskDoctor.  Unfortunately, it also doesn't work with
hard drives, at least without being modified (the source is available, too).  
It was written under 1.1 (works flawlessly under 1.2, of course), and at a 
time when I didn't know anything about DosBase and device description vectors
(the clever observer will notice that I know do know about these things, and
a real, supports hard drives and other 1.2 stuff will eventually be forthcoming,
maybe around the time 1.3 ships...).

I'm a busy puppy these days.

>>Chris Siebenmann		{allegra,mnetor,decvax,pyramid}!utgpu!radio!cks
>    Dan Schein		 uucp: {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!schein
>    Commodore AMIGA			Bix: dschein	     Plink: Dan*CATS

BTW, DiskSalv is MY program, not Commodore-Amiga's, so Dan's not confusing
something that he's supposed to know about or anything like that.
-- 
Dave Haynie     Commodore-Amiga    Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh
   "The B2000 Guy"              PLINK : D-DAVE H             BIX   : hazy
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