SFSDoctor bounty has been finally accepted: https://morph.zone/modules/bounty/bounty_view.php?mychoice=SFSDoctor

Fell free to ask questions and share your ideas here. I will also try to put progress reports here.

w00t!

Great stuff; I hope to see a progress report soon

I think, You can see working beta version soon (program is almost
ready, only some things must be improved, but some people repair his
sfs partition using alfa version of this program :))

yay!

Great news. IMHO this is a very important thing for MOS.

magnetic

Nice to see such program almost ready :) It is pity I haven't enough time to finish my SFSRecoverTool :(

Wow, great to see such programm for Mos,
it's a very important application. Thx!!!

Great to hear this!!!! It lends a lot more credibility to morphos to have a working, native disk repair tool.

Every day I'm gladder that I've chosen MorphOS instead of the alternatives, and it's thanks to this kind of thing!

What kind of probelms will it fix? i have 40 gig big partition with SFS, and i found, that there are some problems with it's bitmap. i moved data (38 gigs) to another hdd, formated, and the problem remains. it doesn't seam, it's a big problem, only sometimes a requester appears, and only few files were damaged, but it's still damaged also after slow formatting! what to do with it?

thanx, MarK.

hmm, I needed such a program some month ago... But the next time I'll need it will come for sure

SFSDoctor is testing. Author improve little bugs and gets through with
user interphace.

Please send me an output of latest SFSCheck tool (available on Aminet) ran on this problematic partition. I wan't to know exactly what kind of structure error it is. Then I will send you beta version of SFSDoctor to test.
Was error the same after partition reformat? Are you sure that your drive does not suffer from badblocks problem?

here is the sfscheck output:

Partition start offset : 0x0000000B:561B5C00 End offset : 0x00000015:5711F000
Surfaces : 1 Blocks/Track : 19543
Bytes/Block : 2048 Sectors/Block : 4
Total blocks : 20979410 Size : 40975,4MB/2133,9MB (95%)
Device interface : TD64 Version : 1.210
Device buffers : 600 Device caches : 32x16384 (524288 bytes) [CPB]

Checking RootBlocks
...okay
Checking Config Block at block 20979408
Reserved areas in config block weren't all set to zero.
...damaged
Checking AdminSpaceContainers at block 2
...okay
Checking NodeContainers at block 7
...okay
Checking ObjectContainers at block 3
...okay
Checking Bitmap at block 34 (1289 blocks, 16288 bits/bitmap)
0 FFFF8000 == FFFF0000
Bitmap block 1322 contents is incorrect!
...error in bitmap block at block 1322.
...damaged

this problem appeared before format, and after the format it's still there. i also tried to defragment it, but it stopped because of the damaged disk...

thanks, MarK.

[ Edited by MarK on 2005/12/24 4:02 ]

this seems a HD failure IMHO! (a HW bad block or so)

I have one me too . . . tryed to divide the fault partition in smaller one (even leaving blank spaces on the disk)

No idea how/if it is fixable.

Erm...I'm sure you guys know that you shouldn't use SFSCheck from a different version of SFS, don't you? It will always report errors even if there are none. Use the check built into Defrag from MOS 1.4.5, DON'T use SFSCheck unless you've installed the SFS it comes with!

The latest version of SFSCheck, which is available on Aminet (released recently) supports SFS extensions used on MOS 1.4.5.

[ Edited by March on 2005/12/25 6:08 ]

Small development raport:

Today I managed to finish lost files/dirs finding engine and fixed remaining bugs in it so it is rather fully useable now. I also did some tests on warious kinds of filesystem errors and it worked really well. The only drawback is the speed. The reason is that whole partition need to be scaned to find all information about all lost files.

The next thing I will work on is file selector, becasue most of you are probably not interested in recovering every file that has been found on the disk.

I wonder, how do you test your program? What do use as HDD crasher tool?

@Sonic

You can download HDD crasher tool from http://www.ibrowse-dev.net site.


[ Edited by zukow on 2005/12/27 0:46 ]

i tested this tool on one of my partitions. worked flawlessly. no problems after.

@zukow

There is some progress on file selection module. You can see it here: http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/programy/sfsdoctor/sfsdoctor2.png It is not fully functional yet, but I hope I will manage to finish it in a week.

Oh Man that looks nice. Much needed. Cant wait

magnetic

Status report:
I had a very busy week, but I finally managed to finish file selector module and hunt some bugs. The good news: tommorow or in next 2 days I will release the first public beta version of SFSDoctor. Only some minor bugs need to be fixed. It will have simmilar functionality as SFSSalv tool (the 'repair' option will be disabled, because it is still not widely tested).

I would also thank all people who donated this project. You are great :)

First public beta is available here:
http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/programy/sfsdoctor/

Please report any problems and suggestion. Also everyone who wants to test the repair module please contact me.

[ Edited by March on 2006/1/8 15:27 ]

Hallo March,

i did a good job.

I have one suggestion. Please use /33l in the list with the volume names.