hthompso@eusip.edinburgh.ac.UK (Henry Thompson) (03/01/89)
A colleague has two month's worth of work stuck on an 80MB hard disk on his 1186 which is currently unreadable. It won't boot, and Othello cannot bring it Online. Check Drive finds several bad pages, but cannot enter them. Running the Confidence Test in Offline Diagnostics 1.3e fails with the message Physical Volume needs Scavenging Failure code: 6 Error code: 82 On entry to the Bad Page Utility/Scavenger Tool, the message "Unable to read Pilot data structures - Needs scavenging or reformatting" is displayed. Attempting to display the bad page table fails. Attempting to run the Scavenger dies with 0935. Anybody out there any relevant experience which offers a way of getting any data off this disk, or is it reformatting time for sure? Henry Thompson, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, Scotland Telephone: 031 225-7774 ARPA: hthompso%ed.eusip@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk JANET: hthompso@uk.ac.ed.eusip UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eusip!hthompso
james@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (James Buchanan) (03/03/89)
Have you tried running the Sacvenger from Othello? I've been having trouble lately too, and Envos told me that the Othello scavenger was better than the offline diagnositcs one. James Buchanan james@sparrms.UUCP Spar Aerospace Ltd 1700 Ormont Drive (416) 745-9680 Weston, Ontario, CANADA M9L 2W7