> On Jan 19, 2023, at 8:22 PM, Tony Jones via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:13 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> True. But if it is known to be a DEC (RX50) disk, reading it from Linux
>> is a well known standard thing to do. I have been doing it for more than
>> 20 years, with RSTSFLX (writing, too). Standard PC floppies have no
>> trouble at all, you just have to set the mode to 10 sectors per track.
>>
>
> The first thing one should do is obtain an image of the disk. I'd hate
> for some guy to continue to have a conviction on their record because some
> (well meaning) community member messed up the disk.
>
> Once you have an image, you can use whatever tools (C code. loopback on
> Unix) you want to access decipher it.
>
> Also maybe it's not something that can be widely discussed.
>
> Most of all I'm amazed you're picking an argument over this.
I don't think I'm picking an argument. All I meant to do is observe that the
classic computing community is a large group with a massive amount of
knowledge, and that when dealing with old data recovery problems a good first
step is to seek out suggestions from that body of experts.
It may well be that, in a case like this, the answer would have come out the
same. But it may also be that a faster and more reliable means would have
appeared.
paul
