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Subject: Re: 5.25" floppy drive 
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Hi Christoph,
> In the end it turns out that the floppies that were lying in a drawer 
> for 19 years, are producing read errors.

Do NOT throw them out.
I have a tool that can rescue near all data.
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/

Cheers,
Julian
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