Archiving MFM and RLL drives

[John Foust]

At 01:51 AM 6/18/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>For the record, Spinrite 5 works on any machine (but there's a bug where it only works on 8088/8086 if you use DOS 5 or higher -- I've tried DOS 3.3 and 2.11 and it hangs).  I use Spinrite 5 on my IBM 5150 all the time.

Yes, but it would be great if we had a version that saved its 
recovered data to a separate disk image file, as opposed to 
trying to write it back to the Historically Accurate(TM) floppy.

At 06:47 AM 6/18/2005, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>I've never understood the attraction to Spinrite. I borrowed a friend's copy
>of SR6 a while ago - I used it on a 4gig Samsung IDE drive and a 10gig
>Maxtor, and it didn't recover anything off them.. 

It's not supposed to be the Baby Jesus, it's just a tool in one's arsenal.

- John