BluPhoenyx wrote:
To: Michael J. Mahon
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
BluPhoenyx wrote:
To: BluPhoenyx
Well, the project is (slowly) moving along. Stephen Brunier (from
Micol) sent me some disks to test and a manual for MAB GS version 4.
Of the disks, I have a working MAB 4.2 GS version. The other version
was MAB GS 5.0 but the 'master' disk was stored on a 3.5" HD floppy
which won't read on my GS. Currently my only option is to find
someone who has little to no difficulty reading these type of disks
on a GS and hope they have some luck.
I'd be willing to try to recover the disk. I can be reached by email.
I know your success rate with 5.25 disks is phenomenal but this is a
3.5" HD. What do you think the odds are of success?
I missed the "HD" part of your message--that lessens the odds a lot...
IME, these disks are hard to recover anything from when written on
Apple 800k drives (my assumption since all other 3.5 disks from same
source are DD). I think this is why it may take one of those lucky
folks who have bragged about their luck with such HD floppies.
Unfortunately, their "luck" depends on the charaacteristics of the
*writing* drive, not the reading drive... ;-(