1 Mar
2006
1 Mar
'06
12:25 p.m.
Hopefully there is someone nearby who can help.
At work here, we need to recover some old data on Canon Magneto-Optical
discs. I don't have them in my hand at the moment, so I can't give model
details yet, but IIRC, they are roughly the size of 5 1/4 floppies. And
to make things more fun, we can't find the drive that they were used in.
Does anyone have one we could buy, or borrow? Or leads on who to talk
to? And no, we cannot send the discs out, due to HIPAA privacy rules.
The drive would need to be used here at Yale.
Reply to me directly. Thanks in advance.
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1 Mar
1 Mar
1:15 p.m.
There were several different size & standards of magneto-optical drives
used. The 5 1/4 inch ones were either 128MB or 256MB usually.
I've got a 128MB drive. I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know for
sure if it works. It's a SCSI drive. If you don't come up with anything
better, I can probably let you borrow the drive, but I can't (a) guarantee
the drive works, or (b) guarantee that it will read your disks. Also, you're
probably on your own for a SCSI adapter and drivers for whatever system you
want to connect it to.
Not sure what kind of data you're working with, I Know you mentioned HIPAA.
The company I work for (CT Renaissance) is involved with some substance
abuse treatment research at Yale.
- Bob
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Hopefully there is someone nearby who can help.
At work here, we need to recover some old data on Canon Magneto-Optical
discs. I don't have them in my hand at the moment, so I can't give model
details yet, but IIRC, they are roughly the size of 5 1/4 floppies. And
to make things more fun, we can't find the drive that they were used in.
Does anyone have one we could buy, or borrow? Or leads on who to
talk
to? And no, we cannot send the discs out, due to HIPAA privacy rules.
The drive would need to be used here at Yale.
Reply to me directly. Thanks in advance.
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--- Dave Woyciesjes
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--- AIM - woyciesjes
2 Mar
2 Mar
2:22 p.m.
New subject: URGENT: Data recovery assistance needed in New Haven, CT area (cctalk)
On 3/1/2006 at 1:15 PM Bob Lafleur wrote:
There were several different size & standards of
magneto-optical drives
used. The 5 1/4 inch ones were either 128MB or 256MB usually.
They got bigger than that. I have some Apex carts that are 4.3GB and I
believe that there is a 5GB variant. Short of knowing what was used to
create these things, it's going to be a bunch of real guesswork to figure
out what can read them.
Cheers,
Chuck
1 Mar
1 Mar
3 p.m.
David Woyciesjes wrote:
Hopefully there is someone nearby who can help.
At work here, we need to recover some old data on Canon Magneto-Optical
discs. I don't have them in my hand at the moment, so I can't give model
details yet, but IIRC, they are roughly the size of 5 1/4 floppies. And
to make things more fun, we can't find the drive that they were used in.
Does anyone have one we could buy, or borrow? Or leads on who to
talk to? And no, we cannot send the discs out, due to HIPAA privacy
rules. The drive would need to be used here at Yale.
Reply to me directly. Thanks in advance.
What kind of disks are they. Do they have any markings on them?
Peace... Sridhar
3:17 p.m.
New subject: URGENT: Data recovery assistance needed in New Haven, CT area (cctalk)
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, David Woyciesjes wrote:
Hopefully there is someone nearby who can help.
At work here, we need to recover some old data on Canon Magneto-Optical
discs. I don't have them in my hand at the moment, so I can't give model
details yet, but IIRC, they are roughly the size of 5 1/4 floppies. And
to make things more fun, we can't find the drive that they were used in.
Does anyone have one we could buy, or borrow? Or leads on who to talk
to? And no, we cannot send the discs out, due to HIPAA privacy rules.
The drive would need to be used here at Yale.
Can you photograph the discs and put the image files on some webpage?
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David Griffith
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3:21 p.m.
The NeXT 256 MB MO drive was is said to have been made by Canon.
Don't have one myself, but a possible lead for you.
jea
17 Mar
17 Mar
5:25 p.m.
Re:
Does anyone have one we could buy, or borrow? Or
leads on who to talk
to? And no, we cannot send the discs out, due to HIPAA privacy rules.
The drive would need to be used here at Yale.
You might want to double check those "rules".
HIPAA, for example, doesn't bar offsite backups ... which is
an instance of sending discs "out".
We've received some hard drives this year from at least one major
HMO to do data recovery for them.
It's not data until you can read it :)
Stan
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5:52 p.m.
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Speaking of data recovery, does anyone know what's up with
readtapes.com?
Their web site has lots of busted images now and there was no answer
to an equiry email I sent off.
Are they defunct?
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New subject: readtapes.com (was: URGENT: Data recovery assistance needed in New Haven, CT area (cctalk))
Richard wrote:
Speaking of data recovery, does anyone know what's
up with
readtapes.com?
Their web site has lots of busted images now and there was no answer
to an equiry email I sent off.
No, John is just like that. He's still there and reading tapes by the
boat load. (and I *mean* boatload. Imagine an semi trailer full of
9-tracks...)
I suspect if you really need to reach him you should call.
-brad
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