Hi Christoph,
> In the end it turns out that the floppies that were lying in a drawer
> for 19 years, are producing read errors.
Do NOT throw them out.
I have a tool that can rescue near all data.
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/
Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey: BSD
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:50:00 +
Thomas Mueller articulated:
> from "Christoph Kukulies" :
>
> > Thanks to all.
>
> > Solved.
>
> > It was a multiple cause issue:
>
> > 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather
> > than 3.5 which was it set to - an oversight in the fi
from "Christoph Kukulies" :
> Thanks to all.
> Solved.
> It was a multiple cause issue:
> 1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than 3.5
> which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured to me).
> 2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 "
Thanks to all.
Solved.
It was a multiple cause issue:
1st: BIOS Setting was incorrect (had to enable 1.2MB 5.25 rather than
3.5 which was it set to - an oversight in the firts place, that occured
to me).
2nd: Cable issue: I had a combined cable (3.5 " connector at the end and
edge connec
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB).
I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having
recalled that the
floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in
dmesg
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:04:40 +0200, Christoph Kukulies
wrote:
> I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB).
> I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after
> having recalled that the
> floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing
I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB).
I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after
having recalled that the
floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in
dmesg (FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE).
I can do a dd if=/dev/
