19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
5:27 p.m.
On Jan 19, 2023, at 8:22 PM, Tony Jones via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:13 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I don't think I'm picking an argument. All I meant to do is observe that the
classic computing community is a large group with a massive amount of knowledge, and that
when dealing with old data recovery problems a good first step is to seek out suggestions
from that body of experts.
It may well be that, in a case like this, the answer would have come out the same. But it
may also be that a faster and more reliable means would have appeared.
paul
True. But if it is known to be a DEC (RX50) disk, reading it from Linux
is a well known standard thing to do. I have been doing it for more than
20 years, with RSTSFLX (writing, too). Standard PC floppies have no
trouble at all, you just have to set the mode to 10 sectors per track.
The first thing one should do is obtain an image of the disk. I'd hate
for some guy to continue to have a conviction on their record because some
(well meaning) community member messed up the disk.
Once you have an image, you can use whatever tools (C code. loopback on
Unix) you want to access decipher it.
Also maybe it's not something that can be widely discussed.
Most of all I'm amazed you're picking an argument over this.