[NTLK] Card Rescue Tip (I moved Merlin to an ATA card...)

From: Adam Warner (lists_at_consulting.net.nz)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 19:48:58 EDT


And I thought I was going to have to reformat my 4MB ATA store.

Symptoms:

When I access Extras I get an instant reboot

If I'm lucky I get so far as selecting Merlin. But If I try and delete
or move it I get a reboot.

I get continuous reboots until I remove the card. Then automount does
work, but if I try and access Extras see above.

It looked hopeless. But this worked:

1. Freeze Merlin.
2. Move Merlin to the internal store (lockup here so wait a while).
3. Remove card (Newton reboots because I removed the card while
mounted).
4. Insert Card. Wait a while for Paul's superb journaling to fix up the
card without Merlin on it.
5. Unfreeze Merlin.

Zero data loss.

Note for future: Never-move-Merlin-to-a-card. Perhaps it's protected but
because I have UnProtect:Eggs installed I wasn't informed.

Regards,
Adam

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