18 Jun
2005
18 Jun
'05
9:01 a.m.
At 01:51 AM 6/18/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
For the record, Spinrite 5 works on any machine (but
there's a bug where it only works on 8088/8086 if you use DOS 5 or higher -- I've
tried DOS 3.3 and 2.11 and it hangs). I use Spinrite 5 on my IBM 5150 all the time.
Yes, but it would be great if we had a version that saved its
recovered data to a separate disk image file, as opposed to
trying to write it back to the Historically Accurate(TM) floppy.
At 06:47 AM 6/18/2005, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I've never understood the attraction to Spinrite. I
borrowed a friend's copy
of SR6 a while ago - I used it on a 4gig Samsung IDE drive and a 10gig
Maxtor, and it didn't recover anything off them..
It's not supposed to be the Baby Jesus, it's just a tool in one's arsenal.
- John