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o Appendix E: Hard Disk Tips .. If the CfRL-ALT mount doesn't work, there's one more thing to try. Go into a program, say, MacWrite, if there's MacWrite files you need. Get to a "Open" dialog, mount the dead partition with F3 (or whatever), and see if you don't get a list of files. IF you do, pick what you can, grab it, and save it elsewhere. Often, a hard disk that cannot display its wares to Finder's Desktop can still have them accessed in this way. Needless to say, this is a desperation move. Once you've gotten the data, go reformat the drive using SPECTRE.PRG. .. Keep backups of your hard disks. The only stable program I'm aware of to do this is Meg-a-Minute Elite, which Dan Moore and I wrote for START magazine, Fall 1988. This produces an image of any partition that can later be restored. .. Perhaps one of the commercial Macintosh backup programs will start working, but they all seem to go straight to the SCSI and IWM disk chips to get maximum speed. Don't hold your breath. .. Backup one partition to ... another partition! It takes hardly any time at all, with Spectre speeds, to move 5-10 megabytes of data, if you've got the space . .. lCD's superb, excellent FA-ST tape backup works very well with the Spectre, and whips through 8 megabytes per minute to or from Spectre partitions. This is past cool into frigid. I strongly recom mend it. It is a bit pricey, but look, I've checked out the cost of the com ponents inside that tape unit, and ICD isn't making very much; it's a high quality Teac tape unit. .. If you are in Mac mode and it starts acting ''bonkers'', it usually cures itself when you recopy System/Finder from a known good disk. This usually is related in some way to a "crash", and is a Mac peculiar ity. Such crashes have a way of damaging System/Finder, without you realizing it until later. .. Strong recommendation: Keep a known good System/Finder on a write protected floppy to boot from and restore your hard disk from, especially if you are running new and unknown software . .. Put your applications in the "root", or non-folder, directory; that way, HFS can find them quickly and easily when you try to launch a document directly. 145
Appendix E: Hard Disk Tips \0 .. Apple disks bigger than 32 megabytes could possibly have a problem, depending on how they were formatted, and what Atarl OS Software you are using . .. Finder 5.3/System 3.2 or above is required to run HFS. Don't try hard disks with Finder 4.1 /System 2.0. Finder 5.3/System 3.2 has known bugs which include not being able to eject with Control-A, Control-E, and not plotting the Spectre disk icons. We recommend Finder 6.0/System 4.2, but you can use whichever you prefer, as all System/Finder combinations work. .. I don't even want to talk about Mac viruses. They'll work on the Spectre, too. Look out; I do know that one anti-virus program zaps out the Spectre's hard disk partition for good. Absolutely use the VACCINE "IN IT" (Inits are like AUTO folder programs, they are run automatically at system startup). Absolutely use Disinfectant from time to time to check your system for infection and clear it up. These programs are on the Mac disk that comes with the Spectre package. 146
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