<OT> Compaq file system??

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:57 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>
> 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

Looked promising, but I got

dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out

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>
> 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.

Ugh!  I'm sure they're much better now that they're part of HP.

Thanks!  We were close, but no cigar.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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