bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (05/26/90)
Silly me -- I trusted my optical disk too much. So when I put it in a
drive one day and watched that computer suddenly have a system panic,
I was pretty surprised when no other machine would mount my disk.
Nothing important on there -- just a year and a half worth of mail, a
bunch of soundfiles, enough source code to keep me busy for years,
term projects past and present... the whole ten yards.
My question, obviously, is: Is there any hope? What are the best ways
to go about pulling data off a dead floptical -- especially one that
refuses to look at any superblocks at all and keeps whining something
about a bad magic number?
Do any programs exist out there that are designed for this sort of
thing (specifically, flopticals on the NeXT)? I somehow doubt that
"Norton Utilities for the NeXT" has been created yet...
And what are the most sensible ways to use whatever tools are out
there?
Or should I give up and reinitialize the goshdarned thingy?
Or should I switch my major from CS to Romance Languages, and never
look at one of these things again? ;)
Thanks for any and all (any, actually) help!
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In article <16742@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: >Nothing important on there -- just a year and a half worth of mail, a >bunch of soundfiles, enough source code to keep me busy for years, >term projects past and present... the whole ten yards. Don't worry, it happened to moi too...almost 200MB of stuff down the tubes! Never really DID get anything back...had to get it all from the sources again! Yelch! > >Do any programs exist out there that are designed for this sort of >thing (specifically, flopticals on the NeXT)? I somehow doubt that >"Norton Utilities for the NeXT" has been created yet... Well, interesting thing that. UNIX Today just announced that Norton had released NU for SUN, Interactive and SCO. Has anyone heard of Peter et al looking at NeXTStep? They even have UnErase!!! > >And what are the most sensible ways to use whatever tools are out >there? > More to the point, with all this storage, you'd think NeXT would allow you a good way to back it up other than get another machine on a network and mount/export away! Hey! How 'bout a second OD? You know, where the slot is that's covered up? I called NeXT about that and they said it's not supported/possible becuase of ROM/motherboard incompatibilities. Well, now, I used this OD A LOT because, well, becasue I have it to use! I have all the rfc's, comp.sources, etc (so I don't waste bandwidth downloading). BUT, when it failed and I had to do it all over again...yelch! Now I'm gun-shy! If anyone is out there scratching their heads saying why would ANYONE want TWO of these things in a cube....this is why, BACKUPS!!!!!! >Or should I give up and reinitialize the goshdarned thingy? > That's what I ended up doing: disk -i -L OpticalDisk /dev/rod0a --Roger Jagoda --Cornell University --FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roger Jagoda -- My employers don't even like paying Cornell University me, let alone accept responsibility fqoj@cornella.cit.cornell.edu for anything I say or do! --