On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:55:28AM -0500, 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? If the floppies are double or single density, try reading them on a double or single density drive. I recently tried recovering data from some DSDD diskettes. After trying three DSHD drives, I got all of them to work on a near-pristine DSDD drive. Also, as has been mentioned, the BIOS must support the drive and you must set it appropriately. Denisty is important; Linux will handle the geometry. That may mean scrounging an old machine. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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