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Getting this error is often a good sign! It means that the drive is working... If it's just filesystem issues you can install bitcurator in a virtual machine .
That should give you most of the tools you need to get files off most filesystems. Some disks might even be directly mountable.
Mark Matienzo did an introductory talk at code4lib 2011 which might be helpful. http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/Matienzo (slides + video + glasses)
Simon
P.s.
[On a related but completely opposite note: under at least Mac os lion, if you connect a usb floppy, it will be ignored, but if you have a virtualbox virtual machine with XP running, attach the drive to that, then detach it, Mac os will see the drive and mount it (even if it was an HFS formatted disk that XP couldn't touch)]
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Discferret is alive enough that as of August 27th they were planning on doing another run of boards. There doesn't seem to have been too much active development over the past year based on mercurial repository, but there's been some, and the code is open.
If you have the right kit (or ask EE to use theirs) you can run off your own board; this might work out more expensive than KF, depending on what they charge for software, and how much you have to pay for getting the board made.
If you can get a DF board for cheap by being a new testbed, that might be a win; the software is going to be rougher round the edges, but on the other hand you have lower level access to the acquisition processes, so can do more probabilistic reasoning about the most likely state of the disk.
KF is a safe choice, and the hardware price is not huge; an in-house built ferret, with custom designed and painted enclosure has more geek cred, especially if you mod the microcode.
Simon
p.s.
Of course the real answer are scanning squids. If only there was some expertise and equipment at some university with an Institute for Technology in the Humanities... (Or pop over to Gaithersburg or Laurel)
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