[time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Floppy drives typically suffer from a couple of common problems, the first is broken wires in the head. The second is hardened grease in the moving parts of the head carriage, and the third is dead electrolytic capacitors. -Chuck Harris David C. Partridge wrote: Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Sorry Dave my mail irrelevant.motto READ THE EMAIL PROPERLY !! I though you were talking about a floppy sized HD!! DOH Alan G3NYK --- On Fri, 4/12/09, David C. Partridge david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: From: David C. Partridge david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive To: teksco...@yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipm...@yahoogroups.com, 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 13:42 Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Hi: There are hard drive recovery services. The best one I know of is in Novato, California. http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ A Flordia based company could not help me and recommended the Novato outfit. It turns out the cost of the recovery is related to the capacity of the drive, not the amount of data on the drive so I didn't have the drive recovered. A friend, who thought he had RAID backup, found out it was not backup and happily paid $4k some years ago to have his business drive recovered. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com Justin Pinnix wrote: The procedure you describe is useful for a retrieving data from a drive where some files have been corrupted rendering the system non-bootable. But NO operating system (not even MacOS) can cure a drive that has suffered a complete hardware failure. It's just not possible. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, ALAN MELIAalan.me...@btinternet.comwrote: Sorry Dave my mail irrelevant.motto READ THE EMAIL PROPERLY !! I though you were talking about a floppy sized HD!! DOH Alan G3NYK --- On Fri, 4/12/09, David C. Partridgedavid.partri...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: From: David C. Partridgedavid.partri...@dsl.pipex.com Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive To: teksco...@yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipm...@yahoogroups.com, 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 13:42 Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
David, You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your collection to a more modern media. Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life. In particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive not being readable on another. Thanks, -JP On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, David C. Partridge david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Yep - that's OK for the future, reminds me that one day I must build/buy/scrounge a middle aged Pentium and fit it with 5 1/4, 3.5, 3 floppy, MO and other kit to read OLD stuff. Plus adapters for laptop IDE drives before they vanish. Right now tho' ... D. -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Justin Pinnix Sent: 04 December 2009 18:35 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive David, You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your collection to a more modern media. Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life. In particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive not being readable on another. Thanks, -JP ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
Hi Justin: I was just reading about Digital Cinema in relation to learning more about Home Threater, http://www.prc68.com/I/HomeTheater.shtml There are now thousands of movie theaters (most are the small multi screen type) that use digital projection instead of 35 mm film. There are many benefits such as huge savings related to the cost of a 35mm film vs. a 350 GB hard drive but also the ability to release a new film in theaters without spending 150 million on the first round of prints. BUT, the key problem is archival quality (100 year) copy of the film which is easy to do in 35 mm and extremely difficult to do with digital media. PS the company referenced in my prior email does more than just hard drives, i.e. floppy, tape, digital camera media, etc. Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com Justin Pinnix wrote: David, You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your collection to a more modern media. Remember that magnetic media (disks, tapes) have a limited shelf life. In particular, I've had a lot of problem with floppies written with one drive not being readable on another. Thanks, -JP On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, David C. Partridge david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but ...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop. The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120 disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until that one dies too). I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not optimistic. I am in the UK not the USA by the way. Please respond off-list. Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
David C. Partridge wrote: Yep - that's OK for the future, reminds me that one day I must build/buy/scrounge a middle aged Pentium and fit it with 5 1/4, 3.5, 3 floppy, MO and other kit to read OLD stuff. Plus adapters for laptop IDE drives before they vanish. Right now tho' ... D. David, I typed LS-160 into Google (the USA version), and got lots of hits for currently available drives, both new and refurbished. They sell for USD60-100. Are they unavailable in the UK? --David Forbes, Tucson AZ USA ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
