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From: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ICD's Cleanup (was Re: Is there a (reliable) CHKDSK for the ST?)
Message-ID: <6071@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 19:06:54 GMT
References: <1990Jan31.032956.28008@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <5440100@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: matthews@umd5.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
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In article <5440100@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>I've been told several times that ICD's CLEANUP.PRG is the best thing going
>for the ST. I have a demo version that I ran on a severely corrupted
>partition, and it claimed it could have repaired it (since it was a demo
>version, it did not do the repairs :-( ).

I have ICD CLEANUP, and it did save me lots of times.

However, there is one small catch (I believe).  It only works with ICD host
adaptors.

I can't confirm this, as I only have an ICD, but I remember trying to run it
off of floppy when my hard drive was really on the fritz, and it said 'no ICD
host adaptor present' and aborted.  (the DMA bus was locked, I think)

Mike