2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
11:48 p.m.
NO!!!! I just tried to run a SYSGEN on my RT-11
system, and I seem to
have lost the filesystem when it started to rebuild the system. I'm able
to boot to another partition (gotta love that WQESD controller), and I
get the following results:
.dir du2: <-DU2: is my main RT-11 disk
?DIR-F-Invalid directory
What was the last thing you did (exact command, if you can remember it)
before you noticed the disk directory was bad - this will help in
determining how bad off you are.
If it was something trivial, and the directory (blocks 6 to 68) is
intact, it probably is something wrong with the home block (block 1).
If it wasn't something trivial, then the files may still be there, but
it will take some work finding the beginning of them (and it will
take your knowledge of what was on the disk).
Remember, RT-11 files are contiguous -- once you've found the beginning
of one, the whole file will be there (unless it was partially
overwritten).
Please tell me there is a way to recover (unfortuanlty
I doubt there is).
I wasn't smart enough to make backups and everything I've been working on
was on that partition.
As I mentioned, it depends on what you might have done... then again, the
controller might have, in a fit of brilliance, written whatever it pleased
on the disk...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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