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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: Harddisk problems: does wanagi-wachipi ring a bell????
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Apr5.172619.3857@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:26:19 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <Dp88LH.778@ebi.ac.uk> <4jve6u$7hb@blackice.winternet.com>
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- Organization: Scala Computer Television, US Research Center
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- In <4jve6u$7hb@blackice.winternet.com>, robo@robo.winternet.com (Rob Ordahl) writes:
-
- >In article <Dp88LH.778@ebi.ac.uk> sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk) writes:
-
- >:With the Apollo :installation software, the harddisk appeared
- >unformatted. Luckily, I could :restore most of the drive using
- >disksalv (had to use the salvage option).
-
- >Yes, it's happened to a partition on my main drive... I figured my
- >machine had been posessed by some Native American diety and decided
- >to leave well enough alone...
-
- When DiskSalv repairs a disk, it's quite possible that the root block
- needs to be rebuilt as well. This is often the case when you see "Not
- a DOS disk" or other serious problems that prevent you from seeing the
- partition. In the process of reconstructing the root block, DiskSalv
- will look to see if the given volume name seems to be OK. If not,
- DiskSalv will rename it "wanagi-wachipi". You don't always see this
- take effect until the next reboot, since AmigaDOS itself may have the
- old name, depending on how the volume went down.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
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