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[B <beeline AT mindspring.com>]

I knew some of y'all would have suggestions! You're such a smart list....

I am sorry. I not only was not clear, my own impression was incorrect: The 
Yamaha is indeed an older unit -- <>'80s -- with a broken floppy disk drive 
and a card slot that goes unused (no card available). The data for the music 
exists on an aging floppy disk (argh!) that apparently is useless for 
anything other than playing on a (repaired) Yamaha Synthesizer.

So, how do I get that information off of the floppy without screwing up the 
floppy? Can it be just copied to one or several of our computers? (I have a 
strong sense of deja vu and dimly remember getting "no eof mark" errors when 
I consider doing this on Win machines....)

???
"B"

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> sil,

it sounds as if you are assuming an internal HD.  i believe this is an 
older unit that probably only had a slot for a proprietary "RAM card" or 
at best a floppy disk drive.

it sounds to me as if it's this floppy disk drive that has failed.

my recommendations work on the assumpation that the song data still 
exists in persistent memory and that it is playable, but just needs to 
be extracted.

--rt


Sil Greene wrote:

> RT makes a good point -- can you still access the drive?  If so, his 
> suggestions might do the trick ... if not, read on...
> 
> Best option is to find a data retrieval place that would do a bitwise 
> retrieval (essentially dd the data off to an image file).  I don't know
if 
> anyone offers that service, and the damage to the drive may make the
data 
> unrecoverable.  Even if you get an image, drive damage may have
corrupted 
> something.



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