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Article #13223When it comes to the crunch, HD Utils don't cut it
From: Tonio Loewald
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 07:03
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 07:03
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Over the years I've seen a lot of whacky hard disk problems and in my experience, if they're nasty the usual symptom is "the hard disk isn't there". By and large, all the hard disk gizmos around basically do the same thing... check the SCSI chain using the same commands and then try to mount anything they see. Since a bad problem generally means they don't see anything, they don't do you any good. I have access to practically every utility program for Macs ever seen (borrowing from friends and contacts in a crisis) and it's pretty well always the same story. They'll recover an occasional lost file or fix errors that you've never noticed, but when something serious happens, you might as well use SCSI probe as Norton's. Any comments? Tonio -- Tonio Loewald | Ph 06 290 1594 | PO Box 101 O'Connor tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au | Fax 06 290 1595 | ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!huxley!tal691 From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: When it comes to the crunch, HD Utils don't cut it Date: 5 Nov 92 07:03:39 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <tal691.720947019@huxley> References: <1992Nov1.095238.25118@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12