This is a somewhat OT request.
I'm trying to recover files from a 4 disk (3.5") floppy set of Sybase SQL
Anywhere for QNX Version 5.5.05.
The first thing I tried to do is mount the disks under Linux using the
QNX4 filesystem, but it bombs out. So I imaged the disks using ImageDisk
(of course) and looked at the image file. It doesn't contain a filesystem
as I had initially guessed, so now I'm trying to figure out what it
represents.
As best as I can currently determine it looks to be some sort of archive
that spans across multiple disks. I'm not sure if this is a Sybase
specific format, a QNX specific format, or what.
The disks all have the following similar header information on T0, S0:
vol 00001 00002 000000 5d69b244 11/Jul/99-17:00 wsql50
Disk 2 has:
vol 00002 00002 000000 f9f96f2f 11/Jul/99-17:00 wsql50
...etc. So the first group of digits is obviously the disk number, the
third group is probably some CRC hash, etc.
The contents of the disk are entirely binary. There is no text, lending
further evidence that this is some sort of compressed archive.
Does anyone recognize this as a header for a known archive format?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
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