Date   : Tue, 03 Sep 1991 22:54:23 GMT
From   : comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!lesley@uunet.uu.net (Lesley Walker)
Subject: Amstrad disc problem

>In article <1991Aug29.073530.29874@lth.se> andersh@maths.lth.se (Anders
Holtsberg) writes:
>
>>A dear friend of mine has typed in a archeological manuscript 
>>of 50 pages on an Amstrad word processor running CP/M equiped 
>>with a somewhat obscure drive for rectangular discs. Error: something 
>>like "can't read sektor 0". All other sectors OK (But we don't have
>>any program to read them). No back up. No sign of shit on the disc. 
>>One and a half week of full time job to recreate it. The one to give 
>>a correct hint or a disc-crash recover program will be honored with 
>>deep gratitude. Any hint pleeeeeease......
>>
In article <1991Aug30.134500.26565@techbook.com> fzsitvay@techbook.com
(Frank Zsitvay) writes:
>   ok, there are several possibilities...
> [describes quite valid hacking solution]

Yes, and here's another possibility:
If, as I suspect, this is a PCW with a 720k drive, and it's a 720k disc,
then the the disc may have been inserted the wrong way round.
I got fooled by this once.

I did send email to Anders about this, but haven't had any response, so I
don't know if it got through.

Lesley.
PCW exponent extra^H^H^H^H^Hordinaire.
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