lhotka@incstar.uucp (03/19/91)
Well, my luck finally ran out I guess... After several years with no real hard drive problems, Handshake 2.20c finally did in one of my partitions... Just at the beginning of a download (as it was opening the output file I assume), the Amiga crashed and when it tried to reboot it found that DH0: needed validation. About 3-5 seconds after beginning hard drive access the Amiga gurued... This happens every time it tries to access DH0: I used DiskSalv with the 'NODOS' option to recover all the information onto DH1:, so I have all the data that was on the drive, but my problem is that I can't get DH0: back... The Amiga FORMAT command accesses DH0: and 3-5 seconds later - GURU DiskDoctor, FixDisk and DiskSalv (w/o the 'NODOS' option) do the same thing, so unless they have switches I am missing they won't help me... Is there a way to solve this without doing a low level format of the entire drive? Thanks for any help!! ______________________________________________________________________ / Rockford Lhotka INCSTAR Corp \ | Applications Project Leader 1990 Industrial Blvd | | incstar!lhotka@uunet.uu.net PO Box 285 | \ 612/779-1701 Stillwater, MN 55082 / -------------Amiga - The computer for the creative mind.--------------
forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas) (03/21/91)
In article <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp>, lhotka@incstar.uucp writes: > [...], the Amiga crashed and when it tried to reboot it found that DH0: > needed validation. About 3-5 seconds after beginning hard drive access the > Amiga gurued... This happens every time it tries to access DH0: I had the same problem a few weeks ago with a FFS partition. I took an older version of the FastFileSystem: ffs 36.35 (20 Sep 1990) and rebooted. After I was able to access the partition without hanging or guruing, so format! -- \___/ Jean-Michel Forgeas \-/ cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmfra!swinjm!forgeas | The Software Winery -^- And, where is the universe ?
Jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim) (03/22/91)
In article <2614.27e5cb62@incstar.uucp> lhotka@incstar.uucp writes: > >I used DiskSalv with the 'NODOS' option to recover all the information onto >DH1:, so I have all the data that was on the drive, but my problem is that >I can't get DH0: back... The Amiga FORMAT command accesses DH0: and 3-5 >seconds later - GURU DiskDoctor, FixDisk and DiskSalv (w/o the 'NODOS' >option) do the same thing, so unless they have switches I am missing they >won't help me... I can think of a couple of ways: 1) Corrupt the first sector of the disk. If ADOS doesn't see DOS\0 or DOS\1 in the first four bytes, it won't look at the rest of the disk. It'll just say NDOS. 2) Write a quick and dirty program to send an inhibit packet to the filesystem. Mount and then send this message before the system has a chance to crash. 3) Rename the disk validator so it can't run. > >Is there a way to solve this without doing a low level format of the entire >drive? Thanks for any help!! > ______________________________________________________________________ >/ Rockford Lhotka INCSTAR Corp \ >| Applications Project Leader 1990 Industrial Blvd | >| incstar!lhotka@uunet.uu.net PO Box 285 | >\ 612/779-1701 Stillwater, MN 55082 / > -------------Amiga - The computer for the creative mind.-------------- -- |_o_o|\\ |. o.| || The Jay Denebeim | . | || Software | o | || Distillery | |// Address: UUCP: mcnc.org!deepthot.uucp!jay ====== Internet: jay@deepthot.cary.nc.us BBS:(919)-460-7430 VOICE:(919)-460-6934