[ale] old floppy

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Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> said
> I've got an old floppy that I'm trying to read.  I believe it was
> formated sysV, but can seem to mount it or read it in anyway.  I've
> tried dd, but always get i/o errors.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I
> believe the actual data on the floppy is ascii.

If the dd failed before reading the entire floppy then the floppy has
a physical defect but that defect may not be in important data.  Try blowing
the dust off of it and reading from a different drive that may have a slightly
different alignment.

If configured, Linux can read a variety of file formats.

Alternatively, if you're just trying to recover a little bit of ASCII, you
could just dd it off and reassemble by hand.

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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

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