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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: StreamDisk 1.0 (may help in AFS data recovery!)
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:23:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- I've offered 'StreamDisk 1.0' to two people who were unable to otherwise
- recover data from their AFS disks. I figure I might as well make my little
- program available to the general public. I'll await the general reaction
- before putting it on Aminet (might have bugs in it that I didn't catch
- quite yet.)
-
- But for those of you who have http access, you can go to the following
- page to retrieve it:
-
- http://www.uga.umd.edu/~walrus/Dev.html
-
- StreamDisk can copy an arbitrary number of sectors, starting at any sector
- on a disk, to a file or to stdout. As such you could dump an entire 200MB
- disk into a file on another (larger disk) or break up this "stream" of data
- onto numerous floppy disks; you could extract the RDB, pipe the output
- through compress and onwards through the serial port to a remote system.
- You can use StreamDisk to look at the raw data on your harddisks even if
- the file system has gone insane and you can no longer (safely) mount the
- partition. In short, it's a very low level tool to help in recovery of data
- when nothing else will do. It knows nothing about file systems, so it's not
- a magic tool to recover your AFS partitions. It won't write to disks, so
- you can't damage the disks. There! I think that sums it up. Source code is
- included.
-
- |._.|_ Udo Schuermann "The future's not what it used to be!"
- |(:)| ) walrus@wam.umd.edu -- Narn Ambassador G'Kar
- |_:_|/ http://www.wam.umd.edu/~walrus/ Babylon 5, "The Long Dark"
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