[Info-vax] analyze/disk errors

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 13-12-06 18:31, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>>>> And some of us "end user" programmers have written ODS-2 readers for fun
>>>> in the past (so we can read ODS-2 volumes under other operating systems)
> 
>>> But, I would write it on VMS, and, what's the use ???
>> There's no point writing it on VMS.
> 
> 
> There is if you have a disk that ANA/DISK/REPAIR can't fix and you need
> to manually extract critical files.
> 
> I had to do something similar but with indexed files that the LD driver
> had partly written over. I had to go through the file which had been
> partly written over and recover whatever records I could.

You could do that with QIOs.  No need for writing filesystem software.

Yeah, I've been in that situation, and it's one thing I never liked.