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Shuttle Hard Drives
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:53 am
by MichelleH
An interesting article on retrieving the space shuttle Columbia disk drives.
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_ ... EMaGsE1vAI
With no help from Bill Gates
Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives as other approaches do.
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:18 pm
by spacecase0
every once in a while something happens that no one will believe unless they see it happen.
I have recovered hard drives in the past, this one is amazing...
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:25 am
by CShark
Um...unless I am mistaken, DOS wrote to drives pretty much the same basic way Windows does. What causes fragmentation (files saved in bits over a non-consecutive area of the drive) is saving/deleting/saving/ etc. over time. DOS used a file allocation table (FAT 12 or 16) much the way Windows uses NTFS.
Why the heck were there DOS based systems running on the most complicated machine in history !???
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:11 pm
by Minimalist
Why the heck were there DOS based systems running on the most complicated machine in history !???
Lowest bidder.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:46 pm
by Forum Monk
CShark wrote:Why the heck were there DOS based systems running on the most complicated machine in history !???
Because they didn't want to risk BSOD!
Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:44 am
by CShark
Forum Monk wrote:CShark wrote:Why the heck were there DOS based systems running on the most complicated machine in history !???
Because they didn't want to risk BSOD!
Could have been worse...could have been CPM !
Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:28 am
by MichelleH
CShark wrote:Forum Monk wrote:CShark wrote:Why the heck were there DOS based systems running on the most complicated machine in history !???
Because they didn't want to risk BSOD!
Could have been worse...could have been CPM !
CPM...now that's Jurassic!