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What is the Amiga equivalent of MSDOS ScanDisk/CheckDisk?
« on: June 23, 2004, 01:07:12 AM »
I have my Quantum Fireball 2.1g prepped with Phase5 SCSIConfig v1.27
and formatted with FFS in Workbench.

However when I use the PD SCSI utility ProbeScsi v0.08 it tells me
that my drive has 7 known defects, 1 grown defect.

If my Amiga drive deterioates what program do I use to show me a
graphical image of the surface like with PC ScanDisk so that bad
blocks can be avoided by the OS?

If I run HDToolBox's Verify option would that be dangerous in
conjunction with an RDB formatted with SCSIConfig v1.27? Would the bad
blocks be automatically sorted or do I have to map them manually.

Also - what is the latest revision of HDToolBox that will work on
Workbench 3.0?

(Yeah, I know I need to upgrade ROM&OS but 3.1ROM gives you ages of
extra boot seek-time).
 

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Re: What is the Amiga equivalent of MSDOS ScanDisk/CheckDisk?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2004, 01:41:27 AM »
I use DiskSalv 2 (r11.32) 1991-1994 but it doesn't look like it can
spot a surface defect and tell the filesystem to avoid it.

Like if the platter had some material damaged on it, ScanDisk would
skip around it!

I'd like to get DiskSalv 4 though, where would I get this?

Also, does DiskSalv 4 actually DO the purification process? DiskSalv 2
sorta leaves the deleted files on the disk which can get messy when
you go to salvage something and all the old junk is there.

I wish it would do an MSDOS style Defrag too, ReOrg 3.11 (patched) is
horribly unreliable and has destroyed my files on many an occasion!
 

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Re: What is the Amiga equivalent of MSDOS ScanDisk/CheckDisk?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2004, 04:22:11 PM »
I've heard about Quarterback Tools, I think I might have tried it once
but it must have wanted a registration fee or something that I
couldn't afford.

DiskSalv really is good stuff but my version says it's doing the
`purification' but doesn't actually clean the dead files away.

What I liked about ReOrg 3.11 was that it showed you a graphical
sector display which gave you a better idea of where on the disk
things went wrong or where fragmentation was occuring.

I think DiskSalv should have had a graphical display of each block
rather than a progress meter and a list whizzing down the page.

That's why I liked the MSDOS ScanDisk because it would show little
circles and squares and automatically map out surface trouble such as
bad blocks.

We could do with an all-in-one first aid kit for disks that would
encompass salvage, bad-block mapping, defragging and conversion. Like
Win '98 onwards has.

I don't use any file system other than Fast File System because
DiskSalv only works with FFS. How could you possibly live without
DiskSalv?

:-D :-D