Windows retrieves data from crufty old disk
News, Technical ·Wednesday August 26, 2009 @ 14:16 EDT (link)
I was unable to access my old SyQuest SyJet 1.5Gb removable cartridge drive using Linux (the drivers are no longer maintained) but my Windows machine at work (no parallel port at home except on one Linux machine) was able to access it, after I followed a suggestion about enabling the parallel port interrupt (I didn't need to switch from ECP to EPP, and Device Manager detected it as an ECP port, whatever that is). Far be it from me not to give credit where due: in this case Windows proved superior to Linux.
I actually had two of the removable disks: one was apparently given to me by Gerian Sloetjes, since it contained some of his assignments such as a biography of Agatha Christie, some book journal entries, and a few POD and Skillet MP3s. The other is mine, and contained some old games, MP3s, and a backup of my old BBS, Death's Vortex, and a few issues of the Christian newsletter I used to produce and edit, The Firm Foundation. I copied it all over to my USB drive (to be backed up at home to my external USB drive and to DVD), and plan to sell or give away the SyJet drive.
