Re: Low level SCSI fixer

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <CL4F3o.D8F@mail.on-line.co.uk>,
Richard King <tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm still looking for a Low Level SCSI editor, to try and recover several
>partitions which got 'lost' when my partition map got zapped. Anyone have
>any suggestions about where I might find a program to assist me in this
>(possibly futile) enterprise? Apart from - as one respondent put it -
>'wrolling (sic) my own'.
> 
>Jawaid? You said you were writing one, because you'd find it useful
>yourself - any progress?
>

	I've heard lots of good things about the 'Chinook SCSI Utilities',
altough I've never even seen it (I'd like to), so I can't tell you exactly
what they are capable of. OTOH, if you happen to have a mac, the best
program I have ever seen for editing partition maps is 'Hard Disk Toolkit'
by FWB. If you happen to have a RamFAST, and remember *EXACTLY* what each
of your partition sizes were, you can use the RamFAST utilities to write
a new partition map. (unfortunately, if the partition sizes are <=32MB,
it also initializes the new partitions, so you lose your root directory.
Jawaid, this might be nice to toggle if you guys ever redesign the util.)
You can then use prosel-16 or something similar to recover your data, which
is probably still intact, but not assigned to any files anymore. I've used
this trick may times before. Good Luck!

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