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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Any hope for a dead floptical? (munch munch)
Message-ID: <16742@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 25 May 90 19:59:23 GMT
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Silly me -- I trusted my optical disk too much.  So when I put it in a
drive one day and watched that computer suddenly have a system panic,
I was pretty surprised when no other machine would mount my disk.

Nothing important on there -- just a year and a half worth of mail, a
bunch of soundfiles, enough source code to keep me busy for years,
term projects past and present... the whole ten yards.

My question, obviously, is: Is there any hope?  What are the best ways
to go about pulling data off a dead floptical -- especially one that
refuses to look at any superblocks at all and keeps whining something
about a bad magic number?

Do any programs exist out there that are designed for this sort of
thing (specifically, flopticals on the NeXT)?  I somehow doubt that
"Norton Utilities for the NeXT" has been created yet...

And what are the most sensible ways to use whatever tools are out
there?

Or should I give up and reinitialize the goshdarned thingy?

Or should I switch my major from CS to Romance Languages, and never
look at one of these things again?  ;)


Thanks for any and all (any, actually) help!

     << Brian >>
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