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- From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Attempted post
- Message-ID: <RATINOX.92Nov12111840@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:15:48 GMT
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- <1992Nov12.062310.19323@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:23:10 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1992Nov12.062310.19323@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>,
- >>>>> tspindle@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (tom spindler) writes:
-
- >I've done similar stuff on my old Apple ][. It's lots of fun when the
- >directory track dies and you're down to searching for track/sector
- >lists, trying to piecemeal files back together on a new disk with a
- >sector editor, then building a new directory from scratch.
-
- ts> Aw, but if you have the T/S lists intact, that makes things
- ts> pathetically easy. Not hard at all.
-
- But *finding* the T/S lists can be a bitch, especially when most of
- the data on the disk looks like T/S lists :-).
-
- ts> ObHack: on said Apple II, modifying RWTS to read in sectors that
- ts> had been written with the wrong skew pattern but write them out
- ts> normally.
-
- LittleObHack: Change 3 bytes in DOS and you can access 40 tracks
- instead of the default 35. It won't work on the old-old-old Shugart
- drives, though.
-
- --Rat
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