On Thu, 10 May 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to
> > recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point
> > in the disk. Others I can't read from at all.
> >
> > The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-size floppies. I've tried
> > dd'ing from /dev/fd0c, /dev/fd0.1440, etc., but exits with "Input/Output
> > Error" before copying anything.
>
> i think you can try dd from the raw device (/dev/rfd) using the "iseek"
> or "skip" option to jump over the missing sectors.
> Alternatively, you can use "conv=noerror,sync" to keep reading
> after errors (the bad blocks are NUL-filled)
Okay, this works for the disks with errors in the middle of them.
Thanks! Reading from the raw devices unfortunately doesn't get me any
farther with the high density disks.
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Brian Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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