Steven Hirsch<snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/22/2012 11:39 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
To my great dismay, all the DOS 3.3 and Pascal driver support diskettes for my
Vista A800 8" drive controller are blown and unreadable.
Does anyone have good copies of these that they wouldn't mind imaging?
Quick update: I was able to recover everything but the Pascal driver by
trying a couple of different Disk ][ units. Unfortunately, nothing was
unable to read anything useful from the Pascal Attach diskette. Only the
first track is intact. It may have always been that way for all I know (never used it).
So, if anyone can find the A800 Pascal 1.1 support - much appreciated!
Steven, try taking a look at the disk using Copy II Plus's hi-res disk
scan, under the bit copy option. That will quickly reveal which tracks are
formatted, and the extent of damage to formatting.
I'd not expect any protection on a driver disk, but there may be some
damage.
Also try a simple bit copy. It could recover a usable copy. (I presume
you've already tried a sector copy--it can also yield a working disk.)