On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Randell Jesup wrote:
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Randell Jesup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
Terry Lambert wrote:
Julian Stacey wrote:
Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c vali
d.1
`Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
(because read() on DOS3.2
Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Randell Jesup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes (if anyone still cares about floppies). The old Amiga
trackdisk (floppy driver) could do that, since all the decoding was in
software (and via the graphics bitblitter(!)). Do the integrated disk
Randell Jesup wrote:
[snip]
Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's?
I think we will have to assume that the floppy will hang
around for some time
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Randell Jesup wrote:
Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's?
Mine will all disapear once I manage do
As Julian Stacey wrote:
Would be nice, Joerg W. (cc'd) looked in that direction somewhat
I recall, I can't remember how far he got, I do recall some patches
I didnt get to try, can't remember quite what for, Joerg, can
you recall ?
Use fdread -r for this (FreeBSD-current only).
Anyway,
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Julian Stacey wrote:
Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c valid.1
`Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
(because read() on
Randell Jesup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes (if anyone still cares about floppies). The old Amiga
trackdisk (floppy driver) could do that, since all the decoding was in
software (and via the graphics bitblitter(!)). Do the integrated disk
controllers in PC's (still) allow direct
Julian Stacey wrote:
Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c valid.1
`Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
(because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer even
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