Dave Haynie's DiskSalv version 11.32

[T3000]

I noticed in the description that Dave Haynie's DiskSalv version 11.32 works with 2.04/2.1/3.0 file systems. Does this also work on 3.5 fs and 4.3 gig drives?

I seem to have some difficulties running this program, mess things up to the point of reformat...  Would the comercial version of the program be worth the investment or would buying os 3.9 for my legacy systems be a better choice?  

Yes, and no, respectively.

The 3.5+ filesystem has no structural changes that would  confuse Disksalv. Although don't try it on MorphOS/OS4 LFN mode!!

4GB support, no way. It'll screw up on anything across that boundary, usually by corrupting the RDB and everything at the beginning of your disk.

[T3000]

---- Neko----  4GB support, no way. It'll screw up on anything across that boundary, usually by corrupting the RDB and everything at the beginning of your disk.
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Even if the drive is formatted out to 3.8 gigs and partitioned into 5 smaller ones?    I have a 50mg boot and three 1gig and a 4th 700mg or so partitions.


This is a new drive (in 2000, the machine has been rarely used in the last few years) and I do belive the SCSI termination and such is correct. One scsiHD internal, external 100mgZip drive and a Scanner. in that order.

The HD has been formatted using HDInstTools 6.9   as the HDtools with os3.5 is "Unable to read drive configuration".

frustrating

[Thomas]

** Partitioning does in no way influence the 4GB border ! **

The 4GB limit applies to the drive, not to a partition. You can make one or any number of partitions within the first 4GB of the drive. But the first partition which laps over the 4GB border and every following will need special handling. Programs doing write accesses to these partitions without special handling will destroy data on the other partitions below the 4GB limit. (DiskSalv is one of them).

The 4GB we are speaking of are 2^32 bytes (4,294,967,296 bytes). This amount is usually called "4.3GB" by the manufacturers, so with your 4.3GB drive you could still be safe. Get the Check4GB archive from Aminet and run the CheckHD program from it. Every partition with a "Y" in the >4GB column must not be used with DiskSalv.

Bye,
Thomas

[T3000]

Thanks for the info. I dled checkHD, ran it and it claims everything is OK.

The install instructions that come with os3.5 states "with support for drives over 4 gig". It amazes me that the product "IMHO" was released imcomplete. ie lacking HD recovery and maintenance tools speciffic for 3.5. or even stating that one should format fresh for 3.5 install instead of just updating the OS.     bad Petro, bad!

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