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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
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- Subject: When it comes to the crunch, HD Utils don't cut it
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:03:39 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Over the years I've seen a lot of whacky hard disk
- problems and in my experience, if they're nasty the
- usual symptom is "the hard disk isn't there". By and
- large, all the hard disk gizmos around basically do
- the same thing... check the SCSI chain using the
- same commands and then try to mount anything they
- see. Since a bad problem generally means they don't
- see anything, they don't do you any good.
-
- I have access to practically every utility program
- for Macs ever seen (borrowing from friends and
- contacts in a crisis) and it's pretty well always the
- same story.
-
- They'll recover an occasional lost file or fix errors
- that you've never noticed, but when something serious
- happens, you might as well use SCSI probe as Norton's.
-
- Any comments?
-
- Tonio
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- Tonio Loewald | Ph 06 290 1594 | PO Box 101 O'Connor
- tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Fax 06 290 1595 | ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
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