Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote: % Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful for % possible help. % My wife has a conventional 3 1/2" floppy that she formatted eons ago on % an old Compaq computer. She says % a) the old Compaq would read floppies formatted on an IBM PC. % b) floppies formatted on her Compaq could not be read on other PCs. % % Sounds to me like a poorly-aligned floppy drive but maybe it's something % more subtle.
Possibly. Can you dd the contents off the floppy into a file and then poke through the file looking for the data that you want? $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/some/darn/file % My box says it can't recognize the file system on the floppy (when using % the 'auto' option in the mount command). Is there any possibility that % the old Compaq had some wierd file system for floppies (obviously a % question for the old farts among the list ;-) ). I recall that early Compaqs had all manner of proprietary goober about their systems, such as BIOS data stored in special sectors on the hard disk, components *only* available from Compaq, and so forth. Kurt -- God is real, unless declared integer. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
