Aargh! Goodbye HD...

[bguenter@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Boris Guenter)]

Hi, folks. I hate it when this happens.

Jaz drives are nice for mass storage, but their habit to turn themselves
off after 30 minutes has often annoyed me and today it was the first
time that this &%$$% drive has actually DESTROYED some of my data.

Played a game, drive turned off, re-inserted disk, saved game, game
garbled partitioning information. I know that the data is still somewhere
on the disk, but unavailable with classic IIgs file or disk utilities.

Now the three questions are: 1) Are there any Mac utilities which are
able to check an entire volume for lost files and can restore them to 
another volume? 2) Are there any sector editors for SCSI volumes so that
I may at least check the contents of the lost files? 3) Is there really
no way to disable that $@"/&@ auto-sleep feature to prevent future
accidents? Otherwise I will have to sell this shit device, I have enough!

(Unfortunately most newer SCSI drives >1GB don't work on the gs and
it is even harder to find 220 Volt versions.)

Thanks for your help in advance.

                                    Marvin

                          (Sorry, .sig file library got blasted, too!)