Well you should be able to get the root partition ok if you know
	the start of the RiscBSD section of the disk (or the start of
	the disk if its all RiscBSD :)

	After that you could either start guessing for the next
	partition, or write a program that scans the raw disk looking
	for blocks that look like the start of a filesystem.

	If you need help with that let me know & I'll see if I can knock
	something up...

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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|          too drunk to care          |    the hell of the night before    |
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`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'

On Mon, 19 May 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > 
> > > PS does anyone know of a way to regain information from a drive, I've
> > > not formatted the drive or anything, I think the boot block has been
> > > altered, but I'm not sure how to fix.  I really want all my old stuff
> > > back, so I don't have to take apart the computer to plug my cdrom into
> > > the internal interface to boot ATAPI.
> > 
> >         If you know what your old partition sizes were you hould just be
> >         able to redisklabel the disk, then fsck the partitions & mount..
> 
> unfortunetly it's not something I wrote down any where, I just choose
> sizes of about 32Mb swap, 30Mb /var and the rest to /usr, so I can't
> really do much if I need the cylinders :(
> 
> Chris
>