Our Lisa's problem disk

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2 total messages Started by Lance Keashly Tue, 28 Oct 1986 23:02

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Author: Lance Keashly
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 23:02

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Thanks to all the people who replied to my request for help. Most of
the replies based the fix on the fact that the lisa thought it had a valid
Mac formatted disk. Our Lisa did not think it was a Mac formatted disk.

The replies that stated I should use Mactools 5.* seemed the best chance,
unfortunatly in one of the many tries when using the hard disk install.
I clicked the OK button on the install's "Not a Mac disk, intialize?".

Needless to say the Lisa works just fine now but all the data was lost.
So as we slowly recover the data (off hardcopy) we now have a strong
incentive for backup. 

Anyone have suggestions for a good backup scheme. HFS backup, that we use
on a Mac with a hard disk doesn't work on the non HFS Lisa. 

Thanks Again.
-- 
    Lance Keashly
    New Media Technologies Ltd.
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Re: Our Lisa's problem disk

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Author: Guido van Rossum
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1986 13:05

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>Anyone have suggestions for a good backup scheme. HFS backup, that we use
>on a Mac with a hard disk doesn't work on the non HFS Lisa.

Well, I thought the Lisa (actually, Mac/XL) was dead, but for all those
people who got one really cheap: long ago I wrote a backup utility for
it.  This was the first backup/restore utility to hit the net, and when
HFS appeared I received many requests for an upgrade to HFS.  I never
got that far (it took a long time before I could lay my hands on the HFS
version of the File Manager documentation), and I decided to spend my
time on something else when I read all the enthousiastic reports on HFS
backup.  It may be possible to locate a copy of my backup program in old
Usenet or BBS archives; if you can't find it, I can mail you a new copy.
-- 
	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@mcvax.uucp>

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