On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:58:44 -0700, "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the
Dark Remover\"" wrote:


Well, that doesn't help if the data on the disk itself gets corrupted.
Then you get the all-too-familiar A: drive "Abort, Retry, Fail ?" error
message and you're still SOL.


Well, you can always read the raw data from the floppy and do data
recovery on the image file by hand... This is where I think it's nice
to have some error correction and interleave in the data being
recovered. You certainly don't get that with FAT12, and especially not
with compressed filesystems. Netapp has an iteresting product that is
esentially a RAID5 but with two parity disks instead of just one. You
have to loose two drives to loose the array.

Stepan