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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 22:58:20 +0200
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fd driver hacking to recover data
Message-ID:  <20010514225820.A66375@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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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.

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

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