I came here just to post that link. I still have that song in my head when I hear the word "floppy".
Frieren 7 hours ago||
> Not all red or unreadable sectors necessarily indicate failure. Many copy-protected disks include intentionally malformed sectors that cannot be read by standard logic.
How they know? ;)
wolvoleo 1 hour ago|
In that case it's usually not really needed to recover the floppy anyway. Copy protect means off the shelf software that you can probably still find on archive.org or anandonware sites.
nosmokewhereiam 5 hours ago||
"Don't copy that floppy" is deeply ingrained in my head rent-free!
icevl 8 hours ago||
Nice guide. I like the focus on preservation rather than just "getting the files off the disk".
zf00002 4 hours ago||
I recall installing Slackware from floppy.
snarfy 4 hours ago|
The file on the floppy the scripts looked for to know it was on the last disk of the set
Any suggestions for copying files from the old CD or DVD?
rasz 4 hours ago||
If you ever want to peek at physical magnetic transitions and how that translates into bits/bytes/sectors get any Sigrok supported Logic Analyser and the FM/MFM/RLL decoder https://github.com/raszpl/sigrok-disk#screenshots
varispeed 5 hours ago||
I tried such systems in the past and the success was limited. When floppy was replaced with image reader, the device wouldn't read half of them. But it would read the floppies just fine. I wonder if anything has changed since. I tried Greaseweazle (few versions) and Kryoflux with multiple different floppy drives.
tclancy 4 hours ago|
This is also an internal team name for the doctors in charge of preserving Elon Musk’s lineage.