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Post #11,865
by Andrew Grygus
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10/4/01 11:25:40 PM
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New I handled a rash of hard disks Windows couldn't see.
I attached them as a second drive on a Linux box and mounted them as Windows filesystems. Linux liked them just fine, and I copied all the files off and burned CD-ROMs for the customers.

This reminds me also back before Windows, several clients had DOS hard disks MS-DOS stopped booting. Couldn't fix them without reformat (which the customers wouldn't allow due to unbacked data). SYSing MS-DOS didn't fix anything, so I SYS'd those suckers with DR-DOS and they worked fine.
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Post #12,001
by Ashton
10/5/01 6:10:49 PM
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New Thanks! - added to doomsday folder..
Hmm DRDOS better able to handle a boot anomaly ?! - could that be anything related to the media descriptor byte being handled with more er "class", d'ya think?

(I once played a bit in that area on some floppies; IIRC could render disk unuseable, unformattable - right around that byte. If you left disk editor and tried to reaccess that floppy: no dikes.)

Nice twist of the digital knife - *nix mounting DOS, where DOS fears to even let you peek.. What an 'industry' - myopic not-engineered-here assholes everywhere!


A.
But I still recall Don Evans reengineering the one *analog* part of the MPU in the PDP-8 (!) maybe the ALU? -- and tossing in an FET (IIRC) to linearize conversion better..

cackle cackle
     getting past Scandisk - (bconnors) - (24) - Oct. 4, 2001, 02:13:15 PM EDT
         You can but try - (Steven A S) - Oct. 4, 2001, 02:21:43 PM EDT
         Norton Utilities - (Silverlock) - Oct. 4, 2001, 02:40:10 PM EDT
         Boot to DOS - (ChrisR) - (6) - Oct. 4, 2001, 02:45:19 PM EDT
             I don't have the DOS version of Scandisk - (bconnors) - (5) - Oct. 5, 2001, 10:13:55 AM EDT
                 Formatted how? - (Silverlock) - (4) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:01:48 PM EDT
                     FAT16 - (bconnors) - (3) - Oct. 5, 2001, 03:39:12 PM EDT
                         Doesn't matter - (Silverlock) - Oct. 5, 2001, 04:27:30 PM EDT
                         chkdsk - (static) - (1) - Oct. 6, 2001, 02:06:54 AM EDT
                             Heck, with FAT16 you could use any chkdsk . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 6, 2001, 12:20:03 PM EDT
         Hit 'X'? - (tseliot) - (3) - Oct. 4, 2001, 03:51:19 PM EDT
             Doesn't work - (bconnors) - (2) - Oct. 5, 2001, 10:19:10 AM EDT
                 Is it a USB keyboard? - (tseliot) - (1) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:25:52 PM EDT
                     Re: Is it a USB keyboard? - (bconnors) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:46:25 PM EDT
         y'know - SpinRite was invented for precisely *this* - (Ashton) - (3) - Oct. 4, 2001, 04:31:53 PM EDT
             Is that program still available somewhere? -NT - (bconnors) - (2) - Oct. 5, 2001, 10:20:33 AM EDT
                 Absolutely - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - Oct. 5, 2001, 10:23:15 AM EDT
                     Contacted SpinRite support at lunchtime - (bconnors) - Oct. 5, 2001, 03:35:53 PM EDT
         Scandisk = bucket of warm spit -NT - (wharris2) - Oct. 4, 2001, 07:57:35 PM EDT
         I handled a rash of hard disks Windows couldn't see. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Oct. 4, 2001, 11:25:40 PM EDT
             Thanks! - added to doomsday folder.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 5, 2001, 06:10:49 PM EDT
         latest update - (bconnors) - (3) - Oct. 8, 2001, 04:51:06 PM EDT
             What OS sys'd the floppy? - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2001, 05:52:35 PM EDT
                 Windoze 98 original version -NT - (bconnors) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2001, 08:55:22 PM EDT
                     I hate these misspells, isn't it Winblows? -NT - (wharris2) - Oct. 8, 2001, 10:19:44 PM EDT

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