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- From: Mark Harden <mark@harden.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: How do I unset a disk validation "key"?
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 21:54:50 GMT
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- Michael Rivero (rivero@accessone.com) wrote:
- : During a disk write, the power went out and on reboot, I get
- : a validation failure on my SCSI disk. This is NOT a FFS mounted
- : volume, and diskdoctor completed it's usual work with the usual
- : message about copying the files and reformatting, a less than
- : desirable course due to some 350 Megs. Since the hard disk
- : is not writeable, I can't even create large tarfiles to shoot over a serial
- : port to the UNIX box.
- :
- : The only error message I get is that a "key" is already set preventing
- : validation.
- :
- : There has to be SOME other way to restore the disk without needing
- : 350 floppies to do so.
- :
- : Help! This is my wife's music system.
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- Get DiskSalv.
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- There is a PD version on AmiNet.
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- Better buy the commercial version.
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- It will fix in place. DiskDoctor is "not very good" !
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- Good luck...
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