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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by cortesoft on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:23PM (#20595325)
I actually just replied to the person suggesting kryoflux... I was able to recover most of my seeming corrupted disks using kryoflux and a bunch of different floppy drives... different drives were able to read different sectors, which lead me to be able to recover the entire image.
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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by anfractuosity on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:29PM (#20595372)
That's really cool to hear :)

Also interesting that you used different drives to achieve that too, I wonder why different drives could read different sectors. Possibly the pickup coil of the read head was slightly different size maybe? Or the stepper motor aligns the head to slightly different positions of the track?

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by cortesoft on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:19PM (#20598012)
Not exactly sure. Those were some of my theories, too.
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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by mehrdadn on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:10PM (#20595706)
Were they able to read those sectors correctly? (Can you tell?)
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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by cortesoft on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:18PM (#20598007)
Yes. Kryoflux is pretty good at not saying a sector is good unless it actually is. I was able to mount almost all of the images I made this way, and haven't seen data corruption issues.
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