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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DiskSalv problems (bugs? features?)
Message-ID: <9234@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 7 Jan 90 07:07:43 GMT
References: <25637@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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in article <25637@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins) says:

> Disksalv turns off the device driver for the drive from which data is to be
> read.  So AmigaDos can't read from the drive any more.  In the particular
> example you give, you use DF0: as the source drive.  DiskSalv tries to find
> some library or other, and surprise! it can't find the workbench.

DiskSalv gets most everything it _needs_ from the system before it inhbits the
drive.  It does, however, check for "l:Disk-Validator" and the Format command
before it starts salvaging, but after the inhibit command is issued.  That's
because the Format command is required during run-time if you want to be able
to format a disk during recovery, and Format will call up the disk
validator.  DiskSalv will warn you ahead of time that there features are
disabled if those files aren't available.  You're really asking for trouble
if you try to recover from your system disk; the OS in general doesn't 
really like to have the system yanked out from under it.

> Dan Hankins
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