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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2147.0. "Has anyone seen Lazarus?" by CRISTA::CAPRICCIO (Slave to the waffle light) Mon Jan 23 1989 19:24

    While downloading some stuff the other day, I came up with a "read/write
    error" requestor. A short time later, I scrubbed for surgery with the
    dreaded "DiskDoctor" (I'd use DiskSalv, but it's a single drive system).
    Anywho, after it managed to pull only one file from the wreckage, and
    stumbling a bit on tracks 40 and 79, it relabeled the disk "Lazarus".
    Has anyone seen this before? 

    I've used DiskDocter before and never seen this happen; it always kept
    the original label. Since the documentation is sparse to non-existent,
    I just wanted to make sure I hadn't picked something communicable along
    the way.

    Pete

    P.s.  FWIW, I was wearing a condom and running VirusX at the time...

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2147.1		LEVERS::PLOUFF	Wes Plouff	`Mon Jan 23 1989 19:55`	4
	Track 40 is the "root block" which contains information about the disk, including the volume name. Since DiskDoctor couldn't recover the original name, it had to call the disk something. Why Lazarus? Remember the Bible story?
2147.2		LEDS::ACCIARDI	Man Dies Laughing - Film at 11:00	`Tue Jan 24 1989 02:33`	11
	The first time I 'DiskDoctor'ed a disk, I almost croaked from laughter when the disk came back as Lazarus. Lazarus was the character whom Christ resurrected from the dead. I bet there's no such dark humor imbedded deep within IBM system software. Ed.
2147.3	Practice Safe Sectors	CRISTA::CAPRICCIO	I saw Elvis at the Super Bowl	`Tue Jan 24 1989 19:56`	6
	I caught the reference to Lazarus, but I wasn't sure if it was from DiskDoctor or some Space Aliens. Thanks for the explanation. Can I remove my condom now? Paranoid Pete
2147.4	I had the wrong story	DPDMAI::ANDERSONA		`Wed Jan 25 1989 00:20`	5
	Bible? I always thought it was in referance to Heinleins's Howard family Lazarous Long. No? I guess I have been reading the wrong books.
2147.5	Western Culture, second-hand	TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Wed Jan 25 1989 20:42`	4
	Re: .4 I think it is safe to say that the RAH character was named after the one in the Bible.
2147.6	Rathole alarm	CAPN::SYLOR	Network Magic	`Thu Feb 02 1989 01:28`	4
	Re: .5 Depends on whether you believe in time travel.... Ever read "By his bootstraps" :-) Mark