5 inch floppies

[Amichai Rotman]

Just to answer the "why it reads directories and not the data?" - the 
directory structure is on track 0, sector 19 (and has a backup somewhere). 
it contains only pointers to the first track / sector where the respective 
file is.
 That brings us to the DSDD issue and the BIOS issue.
 Good Luck ! 

 On 9/4/05, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:55:28AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to read some old (duh) 5 inch
> > floppies with a borrowed drive on an FC3 box.
> > Probabaly there is more than one format,
> > but I'm not sure which has which.
> > The usual result is that I can read the
> > directory by clicking on a KDE icon,
> > but get I/O errors when trying to read any of the files.
> > Trying to mount with a mount command also results
> > in an I/O error.
> > If I couldn't read the directory,
> > I'd suppose that I was out of luck.
> > Is there a reason that the directory
> > would be easier to read than the files?
> > Any ideas on how to read the files?
> 
> If the floppies are double or single density, try reading them on a
> double or single density drive. I recently tried recovering data from
> some DSDD diskettes. After trying three DSHD drives, I got all of them
> to work on a near-pristine DSDD drive.
> 
> Also, as has been mentioned, the BIOS must support the drive and you
> must set it appropriately. Denisty is important; Linux will handle the
> geometry. That may mean scrounging an old machine.
> 
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