OK, thanks for everyone's help.  Sadly I think the disk got well and 
truely done in and I haven't managed to recover anything.  I did look 
with a sector editor, but although it could see the riscbsd partition, I 
couldn't search for what I wanted...

Anyway, it will teach me to backup more often, and I guess I'll have to 
spend the next two days getting back to where I was.

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Mark Brinicombe wrote:

> >The system is a RiscPC600 with 24Mb DRAM, 2Mb VRAM, 1Gb SCSI Drive on
> >Cumana Card of which 600Mb is RiscBSD, and a 400Mb IDE drive.
> 
> Isn't it rather slow running of the cumana SCSI card ? ;-)

It's not ideal, but actually once X has got going and I have used it for 
a while it's not too bad.  I guess there is enough memory for it to cache 
most of what I use.  I was going to get another IDE disc for RiscBSD, but 
really want to leave the other IDE connector free for a CDROM drive (SCSI 
ones are soooo expensive), and also those SCSI drivers are almost 
finished...aren't they? :-)

Ben.

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Ben Strawson                                            b.strawson@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science
University College London           http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/b.strawson
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