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- VALIDATE Copyright 1989 Darren New. All Rights Reserved. May be freely
- distributed as long as the copyright notice is preserved and this document
- and disclaimer is included.
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- Validate is a program I whipped up for individuals who ask how to force a
- disk to be validated. It is CLI only. The basic usage is
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- VALIDATE DISK-NAME P
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- The DISK-NAME argument is the name of the disk to be validated. The P is
- optional and if present will cause the program to pause for ten seconds
- between clearing the bitmap and uninhibiting the drive. I usually do this
- to disks I'm going to mail; it forces the receiver to check the structure
- of the disk and the checksums on the control blocks upon receiving the
- disks. Note that the name of the disk is required, not the device.
- (I.e., "Empty", not "DF0:") This is to make sure it found the right
- root block.
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- THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
- INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE
- FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM. Most of the information
- used to find the root block has been determined by inspection of disks.
- Your mileage and controller may vary. The root block is checked for
- validity before any modifications are made, but I suggest you back up your
- hard disk before running this against it the first time.
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- If enough requests are made, I will add the code to zero unused blocks.
- This is handy to do occasionally as it makes life easier for DiskSalv,
- DiskDoctor, and so on.
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- The source for this will probably never be available as most of it is
- coming from a commercial program soon to be released.
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