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- From: olli@enea.se (Ola Liljedahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: faulty hard drive, DiskSalv
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 23:37:34 +0100
- Organization: Enea OSE Systems "OSE - Design on a higher level"
- Message-ID: <4h013e$k6c@gordon.enea.se>
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- Keywords: DiskSalv, large disks, stack size
-
- A.R. Gutcher wrote:
- >
- > and my present Hitachi 340 MB 2 1/2 inch (draws 1 amp)...
- ^^^ not a small drive
- > One day I decided to try the PD version of Disk Salve (version 2) from a
- > coverdisk. Now I thought it would be better than my old software, and for a
- > trail run I decided to have a nice leisurely defrag of my work: partition.
- > I nearly pissed myself. The thing crashed 1/3 of the way through and wrecked
- > all of my file structure. What a time. Ho hum.
- > I used QBT to get it all back properly (although I had lost some files).
- > I decided not to ever try it again until a year had passed (new version etc.)
- > The other day, I downloaded DiskSalve from Aminet. first time I launched it the
- > Fecking thing guru`d :(((
- >
- You DID give DiskSalv a proper amount of stack?
- The larger the drive the bigger the amount of stack that disksalv needs.
- One possible (even probable?) cause of your problems with disksalv.
- Dare you try it again?
-
- Ola Liljedahl
- olli@enea.se
- "OSE - Design on a higher level"
-