Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo

[Jiffy]

Minuous wrote:
>Device 8 - 12 usually refer to diskdrives.

I think it's 8-11, for the four possible floppy drives?

8-11 are the adresses usable for standard Commodore diskdrives such as the 1541 (including -C and -II), the 1570, 1571, 1581 (and some other, lesser known) drives and that's because they only have two jumpers for controlling the drivenumber. If you use something like a CMD Ramlink or CMD Harddrive, you can happily use higher drivenumbers such as 12, 13 etc.

In my current C128-setup, I use two 1571's, an FD2000, a Ramlink and a CMD Harddrive, which can all be used simultaneously with drivenumbers 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

To slightly add to the confusion concerning drivenumbers on Commodores: GEOS and its upgrade Wheels use driveletters (A, B, C, D) thus more resembling a pc.

But this is going offtopic.

[Ral-Clan]

I wonder how this turned out.

[amigadave]

ral-clan wrote:
I wonder how this turned out.

I don't know but the original post was a great way to start my day with lots of laughter!   :lol:

[koaftder]

At least it was just church data that got blown away, instead of you know, something that actually matters.

[gdanko]

actually, yes, this is all quite hilarious. wish we had a video of it all going down. the church folk probably crapped themselves.

It's sad that people will laugh at the misfortunes of others.

[gdanko]

koaftder wrote:
At least it was just church data that got blown away, instead of you know, something that actually matters.

There is such a hostility towards churches and their members. Not sure why.

[amigadave]

gdanko wrote:

koaftder wrote:
At least it was just church data that got blown away, instead of you know, something that actually matters.

There is such a hostility towards churches and their members. Not sure why.

I hope you aren't referring to me with the above quote?  I was laughing at the Windows Geeks, not the Church's loss of data.

I did not even take the time to read any of the other posts in the 4 pages.

[sweetlilmre]

gdanko wrote:
There is such a hostility towards churches and their members. Not sure why.

Well you could probably start with George Dubbayh and work your way back to the crusades...  :-D

-(e)

[gdanko]

Well you could probably start with George Dubbayh and work your way back to the crusades...  :-D

-(e)

Oh give me a break. You cannot blame a whole group based on the actions of GW. That's the same discrimination the world decries.

Also, the KKK calls themselves Christians, but their actions would say otherwise.

[rkauer]

 Back to topic:

 If you have Quarterback Tools in DH0 (system, _HairyDave_, AnyOtherName, whatsoever), I think is that obvious the man who maintain the Amiga before (rest in peace) use it to do the backup files.

 Then it's simple:

 - Find the quarterback tools drawer (name of directories on Amigas;

 - Open the rescue utility (I forgot the right name);

 - Make the rescue app scan the DHx: (the lost partition).

 - Point another partition to do the salvage (be sure you have enough space in the other partition, of course;

 - If you get a message like "archive xxx is damaged, it won't be recovered", stop the scan and quit the application;

 - Wait until someone who have an expertized knowledge in Amigas arrives to do the job for you;

 - In the case the last sentence is true, stick with him/her in order to know a bit more of this wonderful piece of OS. ;-)

[motorollin]

amigadave wrote:
I don't know but the original post was a great way to start my day with lots of laughter!   :lol:

It is pretty funny when people lose data isn't it.

--
moto

[leirbag28]

@gdanko

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1. It's sad that people will laugh at the misfortunes of others.
2. There is such a hostility towards churches and their members. Not sure why.
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 Absolutely true.............but I was actually surprised this   time.  I am a church member and people who know it here that know it are hostile towards me at times.
I find its usually athiests or anti religion/AntiGod people.

I always thought that at least Amigans would respect other Amigans.........not the case.






@RoseDreamJ

 I live in NYC, I would love to help if I could somehow go there.............I am a Church member and a Heavy heavy Amiga user..............as a matter of fact I have proposed doing the SOngs on the projectors at church with my Machine (Amiga 1200)  I have an application thats better than PowerPoint to do this and can train your church how if they are interested..............FREE of course, and I may even give them the software Free as well.  The software is the easiest Multimedia/Presentation software in the world. Really.
 I may also have Quarterback Tools and DiskSalv to give you.

PMAIL me here (do this by clicking on my name while signed on here and select PMAIL)

Welcome to Amiga.Org! I love to hear about churches using Amigas.

[koaftder]

gdanko wrote:

koaftder wrote:
At least it was just church data that got blown away, instead of you know, something that actually matters.

There is such a hostility towards churches and their members. Not sure why.

No hostility. It's a church computing environment. They say that prayer can achieve miraculous things. I suggest a faith based data recovery plan. If the data never reappears, it's God's will.  ;-)

[Ral-Clan]

rkauer wrote:
 Back to topic:

 If you have Quarterback Tools in DH0 (system, _HairyDave_, AnyOtherName, whatsoever), I think is that obvious the man who maintain the Amiga before (rest in peace) use it to do the backup files.

rkauer, lierbag and others: it's nice that you are giving advice and offering help, but I was just resurrecting a thread that is almost a year old now (to see if anyone knew how it turned out).  I doubt the original poster even checks this site.[/size]

[wiser3]

When you formatted the hard drive the question of whether you fast formatted or slow formatted is very important.

Fast formatting only deletes the drives dir structure and any decent recovery program can easily recreate it.

Slow formatting however changes every bit on the drive to a zero and therefore completely erases everything as it goes. Since you canceled the operated a lot of the data may be recoverable, it's hard to say how far it got before stopping.

Wish i was nearby to help you out.

[gdanko]

Absolutely true.............but I was actually surprised this   time.  I am a church member and people who know it here that know it are hostile towards me at times.
I find its usually athiests or anti religion/AntiGod people.

I always thought that at least Amigans would respect other Amigans.........not the case.

I would have expected more as well. But it seems like some people here put a higher value on poking fun at a church and/or its losses than helping out the Amiga community.