On 1-5-2018 3:50, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-04-30 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , B00ze
writes:
On 2018-04-30 07:33, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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Well, not calibration, but you'd still need whichever chip holds the
list of bad sectors and which ones have been swapped in their place.

Ahhh, yes, now that's annoying; if calibration and bad sectors go into
the same chip I'm kinda stuck. But I guess it's OK, I can loose some
files, I just want the bulk of them...
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Unless some of the swapped sectors - either in the dead drive or the one
whose boards you use - are ones that cover the partition table, master
file table, boot sectors, etcetera.

Hahaha, you like dashing my hopes ;-) Yup, if that's the case then I'm
in trouble, and the recovery company will be charging me to rebuild the
filesystem. Oh well, I can always (hopefully) ask them for the raw disk
image and do it myself...

On an old dos system we used the NORTON utilities 8.0
to produce an image file. Most program files on the disk could
be found, because each file ended with (tab)end cr/lf (fortran programs).
Luck has it that disks were only 20-40 MB.............