Re: Strange floppy

[Ian Eure <ieure@crosssound.narrows.com>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:47:09PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote:
> [Maybe off-topic alert]
> 
> I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup.
> It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB
> floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted.
> 
> I thought I'd try copying it on my Debian 2.0 box with something
> like
> 
>     dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/test.bak
> 
> but the disk driver doesn't seem to be able to read the disk
> or any data on it.
> 
> Anyone have any idea if there is something I can use to try and
> mount or at least copy this disk?
Go snag a copy of Anadisk from a local tsx-11 mirror. It's a DOS program, but it
will copy disks with weird layouts, eg strange and/or different sector numbers
and sizes.

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