13 Dec
2017
13 Dec
'17
9:07 a.m.
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On Wednesday, 2017-12-13 at 14:47 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
That's my intention.
These are good quality disks, not the filth they sold on later days.
I tried a decade ago and they were good.
dd is no good with them, they have to be restored with proprietary
software (PC tools backup) in a suitable machine. Which is why it is such
a nuisance that I balkout at the idea.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
My desktop
machine has a floppy drive, I installed it just in case I
want to inspect and retrieve some data from old floppies I have.
I still have some old backups made in floppies which I wish to
retrieve one day.
I would make dd copies of those whilst you can - floppy disks don't
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