<OT> Compaq file system??

[Net Llama!]

On 02/27/03 19:33, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:57 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> 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

that's not good.  i'd say that suggests a problem with the floppy.  dd 
doesn't care about filesystems, it just reads raw data.

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