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   Benny Pedersen to Keith Matthews   
   Looking for Drive Doctor   
   17 Jul 10 13:43:56   
   
   Hello Keith!   
      
   17 Jul 2010 13:11, Keith Matthews wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    KM> The backup was on 42 Diskettes, using Quaterback 5.1. Which was a    
    KM> brilliant peice of Backup SW for its day 8-)   
      
   yep i know that program also here   
      
    KM> Discsalv doesn't quite do what I want. What I need to do is check all    
    KM> the 200 or so .adf images I have made of my disks over the last year.   
      
   oh   
      
   mount -o loop -t affs imagefile.adf /mountpoint   
      
   ls -lhr /mountpoint/   
      
   viola (just need amiga support in kernel)   
      
    KM> Drive Doctor was really good at doing that.   
      
   okay i still wonder how aminet checking virus for amiga, might be the linux   
   mount trick ?   
      
    KM> Yeah, but I really liked Drive Doctor. 8-)   
      
   yep hope the source will come up to aminet, i got the complete xenolink   
   sources, but lost it before i got it ready for aminet :(   
      
    KM> Disksalv  is the way to go there for sure. I found another very good    
    KM> prg on aminet called Diskmate.   
      
   i will warn about make changes inplace even with disksalv, it must be the   
   latest v4 of disksalv, v3 and lover have a number of bugs that trash   
   filesystem even worse then not a dos disk, atleast this is not rdb loose but   
   if its system partion one is loost   
      
    KM> Do you mean floppy based classic amiga games?   
      
   have some disk yes, mostly from magasines that have some games each   
      
    KM> Yeah thats not surprising. I never had the luck of getting a ppc card    
    KM> 8-(   
      
   i got this one from a fellow xenolink user/sysop, he sold his a3000t aswell to   
   another friend, damm i would have taked this one to, if i had known it in   
   time, but okay i got a a4000t now :)   
      
    KM> But the Natami Project looks like its about ready to go into    
    KM> production soon so that will be perfect for running classic Amiga stuff   
   on.   
      
   yep, as the natami is designed the a1000 should really have being that in the   
   start, who needs another computer with that ?, the more i have readed about   
   what being done the worse it got with ppc boards, and its got so expensive not   
   to bay one of them   
      
    KM> Thats Odd, I was pretty sure WB 2.04 would load under KS 3.1. I'll    
    KM> have to check   
      
   yes will also have to check why one more time here, on another amiga i have   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
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