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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: fd driver hacking to recover data
From:       J Wunsch <j () uriah ! heep ! sax ! de>
Date:       2001-05-14 20:58:20
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"Brian W. Buchanan" wrote:

> Any fdc driver gurus in the house?

> I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to
> recover.  Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain
> point in the disk.  Others I can't read from at all.

I just committed a change to the fdc(4) driver, plus a command named
fdread(1).  Give it a try.  Basically, the changes should be
back-portable to FreeBSD 4.x as well, but i don't intend to MFC the
changes.  They need a good bit of testing first.

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http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
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