Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-14 Thread J Wunsch
"Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > 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. I just committed a change to the fd

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-10 Thread J Wunsch
As Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-31 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 >> cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 1503 of 1488-1503 (ST0 44 >> ST1 20 ST2 20 cyl 41 hd 1 sec 10) For this kind of errors, it's hard to recover. The first one is a `no ad

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-10 Thread janb
I wrote such a program on Win2000. If you feel this is helpful,email me and I will send it to you. JAn > > I have a program that will rescue your data ! > It runs on DOS-3.2 & FreeBSD-any BUT the rescue component only runs on DOS > (however at least you can compile & play with it on BSD to get u

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-10 Thread Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian, Joerg, cc hackers "Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > > 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

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:07:53AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > i think you can try dd from the raw device (/dev/rfd) using the "iseek" Uh, the raw device is "/dev/fd". To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 22:04:34 -0700, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > > 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 a

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
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-

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread David Scheidt
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

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> 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,

fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
Any fdc driver gurus in the house? 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 trie