[clug] 5 1/2" floppy drive needed

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Jan 17 22:41:11 MST 2013


Michael James wrote on 17/01/13 12:12 PM:

> Dear Cluggers,
> 
> Anyone willing to lend* a 5 1/2" floppy drive for a data resurrection effort?
> 
> Especially if you're near Black Mountain,
>  the disk that needs reading is at CSIRO there.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael James
> 
> *lend: We could collect drive, but better still
>  bring disk to drive if it's attached and working.
> 

There were 11 floppies, 1.2M, circa 1987-1992, in DOS-FAT format.
Distribution disks for some Windows software... [Data Analysis?]

All but one of them read without errors.
The disk-with-error was only 720Kb used, hopefully all blocks allocated
from the front and nothing was lost.

Wasn't able to verify contents, but disk-images mountable...

Happy to help others while my old kit still runs, if the need arises.

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