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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Semicoherent flame about Amigados.
Message-ID: <1929@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 18:16:43 GMT
References: <644@nuchat.UUCP> <4410018@hpcvca.HP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <4410018@hpcvca.HP> charles@hpcvca.HP (Charles Brown) writes:
>One thing I liked from some CP/M systems was being able to read a disk
>knowing there were errors.
>   SECTOR READ ERROR.  A=Abort, I=Ignore, R=Retry.
>Most of the files I cared about were text.  Ignoring the error allowed
>me to reconstruct most of the file.  I could then edit out the junk
>introduced by the sector error.

Unless the sector you lost was on one of the directory tracks, as then
you were totally screwed because there was no way to tell which
blocks belonged to which file.  I seem to remember writing a "salvage"
program that would allow me to try to visually match the text at the end 
of a block with that of various potential 'next blocks'.  GAK.  No thanks.

Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170