BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: there will come a time when you aren't ashamed if you are fat De: Wilfred van Velzen Data: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:57:05 +0100 ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Maurice, On 2026-02-17 11:59:00, you wrote to me: >>> Also have many bootable compact flash disks >> That would be interesting to find out! MK> Heh, heh. I see a kernel panic in my minds eye. With a proper usb adapter MK> they might be mountable and hopefully readable. That would be the interesting part: If they are still readable. MK> I am sure they are ext2 formatted and all my currently running kernels MK> can handle it. Boot? That would require older hardware that doesn't MK> exist here. Being able to boot is less interesting, for me at least. ;-) MK> Mind you neither does the usb adapter for compact flash. They are probably easy to find and cheap. I have 2 sitting on my desk here. MK> I have a bunch of waterproof totes in storage and maybe one of these MK> days when I get curious enough I'll dig through and see if I can find MK> them. Probably in the same tote with 5.25" and 3.5" floppies as well MK> as CDs, DVDs, and other assorted obsolete media such as tapes. I was MK> known the 9 track tape guru way back in the VAX/VMS days. That's from before my time! ;-) And equipment to read from those tapes would probably impossible to find. Maybe in a museum? ;-) >> And even old HDD's that no longer work at all, or show lots of >> read errors... MK> Them too. I am still using 4 3.5" sata drives on one of my machines. I've MK> even booted one of them recently. Their warranties have long expired. I recently tried reading from 2 PATA drives from my Amiga 4000, that hadn't been turned on for like 25 years. I couldn't get anything from them. Which might have been more of an electronics problem then a magnetic problem on the disks... Bye, Wilfred. --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.2.6-B20251227 * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]