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   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.   
      
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