| From: | Robbin Van Ooy |
| Date: | 4 May 2000 at 09:36:02 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS3 15.3 GB maxtor FINAL |
At 02-May-00, tim@ramjam.u-net.com said something about
Re: [amigactive] PFS3 15.3 GB maxtor FINAL, resulting in this reply.
>> And there I was. My old drive formatted and not being able to recover
>> anything.
>It's always a good idea to make a backup...
Sure thing :)
>> Because, I formatted the other partitions on the drive. Suddenly the first
>> partition became corrupt, so I guess there's still something wrong!
>I guess you used the WB3.1 or earlier Format command? That wraps around at
>4GB and overwrites the RDB :-(
Great, didnt know that :) PFS3 states that it works with the WB format command
:/
>> My third mistake had happened, the files that I was able to recoved were
>> corrupt aswell, and I moved and replaced the working files with those
>> recovered files, so again I had to re-install the drive.
>Most likely the MaxTransfer value was wrong - never use a value larger than
>0x1fe00 with IDE drives.
No, that wasnt the case here. I did a recovery on the formatted partition, and
QBtools
mixed up old and new versions of the same file. Ive got recovered textfiles,
for example,
a file with some phonenumbers in it, and it had old numbers aswell as totally
new nubers
totally mixed up ;)
>And remember to use a MaxTransfer value of 0x1fe00, and FORMAT QUICK or
>PFSFormat for each partition!
so I did :) Did you read my other posting? It works fine now!
>> I would advise everyone here to play safe and never buy a harddrive bigger
>> than 8GB, you'd get in a lot of trouble if you didnt..
>No, many people use drives much larger than 8GB without any problem. In
>fact it's almost impossible to buy drives that small any more - and is
>simply not necessary.
Thats true, but PFS3 isnt enough, without idefix there is no way I could use
my full drive :/
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