[time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive

[Justin Pinnix]

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 MELIA <alan.melia at btinternet.com>wrote:

> 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.partridge at dsl.pipex.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: David C. Partridge <david.partridge at dsl.pipex.com>
> > Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
> > To: TekScopes at yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com,
> "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <
> time-nuts at 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
> >
> >
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