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fumbles

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 246

floppy problems

I'm trying to copy the contents of some old floppy disks.

[root@luke-desktop Trash]# tar cf - * | ( cd /tmp/; tar xfp -)
tar: CH4/Ast413: File shrank by 7680 bytes; padding with zeros
tar: CH4/Ast415: File shrank by 36352 bytes; padding with zeros

[root@luke-desktop Trash]# cp -r * /tmp/
cp: reading `CH4/Ast413': Input/output error

dmesg:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
hfs: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only.
hfs: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only.
floppy0: data CRC error: track 17, head 1, sector 6, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 17, head 1, sector 6, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 635
__ratelimit: 53 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 635
floppy0: data CRC error: track 17, head 1, sector 10, size 2 
floppy0: data CRC error: track 17, head 1, sector 10, size 2
<snip>

I can't seem to find any form of fsck.hfs:

[root@luke-desktop ~]# fsck /dev/fd0
fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
fsck: fsck.hfs: not found

Is there anyway of getting the files off? Or fixing the disk?

Thanks.

Last edited by fumbles (2009-03-10 12:15:11)

dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: floppy problems

Is there anyway of getting the files off? Or fixing the disk?

try hfsprogs from AUR :
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6709

fumbles

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Registered: 2006-12-22

Posts: 246

Re: floppy problems

Thanks, do you know what this means?

fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
** /dev/fd0
** Checking HFS volume.
Warning... fsck.hfs for device /dev/fd0 exited with signal 11.

# man fsck.hfs
No manual entry for fsck.hfs

[edit] right its a problem with 64bit linux!!!
[edit2] 32bit chroot ...

But I've still go a I/O error on those files, but I am totally over it.

Last edited by fumbles (2009-03-11 04:27:06)