From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 14 14: 2:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ABA37B424 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA10098; Mon, 14 May 2001 23:02:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4EKwK166391; Mon, 14 May 2001 22:58:20 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:58:20 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: "Brian W. Buchanan" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fd driver hacking to recover data Message-ID: <20010514225820.A66375@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message