On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to read some old (duh) 5 inch > > floppies with a borrowed drive on an FC3 box. > > Probabaly there is more than one format, > > but I'm not sure which has which. > > The usual result is that I can read the > > directory by clicking on a KDE icon, > > but get I/O errors when trying to read any of the files. > > Trying to mount with a mount command also results > > in an I/O error. > > If I couldn't read the directory, > > I'd suppose that I was out of luck. > > Is there a reason that the directory > > would be easier to read than the files? > > Any ideas on how to read the files? > > I've seen this behaviour with old floppies -- I suspect there is a bad or > marginal area on the disk. Since the data typically take much more space Disks. Plural. > than the directory, the chances of a bad spot zapping data are much > higher. You should try a different drive -- old drives are even less > reliable than old floppies. I only have one drive. Apparently I'm getting all the directory data, but none of the other data at all. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
