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- john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) wrote:
- >In a message of 23 Dec 95 Magnus Holmgren wrote to All:
- >
- > MH>>> Not really, no. Quite simple to access the data on the HD anyway. Boot
- > MH>>> from a floppy with DiskSalv3, and off you go. ;) I used that
- > MH>>> technique to salvage some data from a friends HD using a different
- > MH>>> controller (his disk didn't use standard RDB, so we had to do it this
- > MH>>> way when, his controller died). It took a while, but that was largely
- > MH>>> due to the fact that his Amiga only had an 68000. ;)
- >
- > JH>> Okay, so we should use the AFS filesystem instead :-) I had no idea
- > MH> DiskSalvcould grab stuff from the HD when there aren't any partitions
- > MH> mounted on it.
- >
- > MH> But DiskSalv will support AFS in the future. Any decent disk recovery
- > MH> program should have a "partition scanner", IMHO.
- >
- >DiskSalv 4.x now has AFS support, however it cannot repair a partition, only
- >salvage and backup work. I'm not sure if the partition scanner will work
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- There is now also a programme include in the AFS distribution
- called diskvalid. This will check an AFS partition and, if
- necessary fix any bit map errors.
-
- This programme was initially developed by the AFS team as a
- resource to enable independent check to ensure that the
- disksalvAFs beta versions and the the Re-orgAFs betaversions
- are producing correctresults. We have included t6his tool in
- the distribution for all current users.
-
- BTW For those who are not familiar with the current
- development stages of AFS we will be posting some detailed
- information to this news group on the 2nd January. this will
- include the detailed programme for new features being released
- during the first quarter of 1996.
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- david S.
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