In response to those that have lost songs on their Jaz disks I thought I would post a recovery method that I use which has been 100% successful for me. I have completely recovered 'lost' songs from Jaz disk on four occasions.
First let me say that recovery for you could be as simple as connecting your Jaz drive to the VS-880 before booting up, then switching to the external (Jaz) drive and use the VS's recovery utility (outlined in the V-expanded manual). The only problem is that you run the risk that if the recovery isn't successful you might have done more harm than good.
The method that I use involves backing up the data on the Jaz disk first and then only using the backup copy to attempt recovery. That way if the recovery fails then original disk is still in it's original (un- edited) form.
If look at your Jaz disk's directory with a PC you will see that each song is contained in a directory. i.e.. song 1 is in the directory "song0000.vr8" - song 2 is in "song0001.vr8", etc. If you have the same number of directories on the disk as the number of songs you had; then you know all the songs are still there, and recovery should work. After much experimentation the trick that I use is to:
1. BACK UP THE DATA. Copy all the info from the corrupted Jaz disk to a freshly VS-880 formatted Jazz disk using a PC.
2. On THE BACKED UP COPY; delete the files songlist.vr8 and system.vr8 in the main directory.
3. In all the song directories delete the file system.vr8.
4. Put the edited Jaz disk in the VS-880 and boot up.
5. Make sure the Jaz disk is the selected disk and perform a recovery with the VS-880's recovery utility.
6. Acknowledge the errors that the VS-880 lists and let it correct them.
7. You are done - check out your songs.
Geoff MacKenzie
gmackenz@interaccess.com
Thu, 31 Jul 1997
1997/12