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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > These disks have no bad spots that were found while formatting. I tried
> > several different ones.  I will go through this one step at a time and
> > then send you lists of what is in each directory.

Is fdformat just a linux version of DOS format?  I have done format /u and 
it finds no bad blocks.  Same with scandisk.  I tried three disks, all 
100% good.  

If two of us are having problems on four computers, I still think the 
older version of the fd program should be made available as a backup if we 
cannot get this one to work for us.  I will do more investigating today.

> 
> Why don't you try fdformat on them, Sindi, and see what results it gives?
> It does a low level format of the disks, then verifies them.  That will
> tell you whether maybe DOS is not catching some errors on the diskettes.
> There's also badblocks, which could maybe do an even more thorough test.
> Not sure if you'll have to install these progs from Slack71 disks or not
> (my BL machines are either all in storage or are on the blink)
> 
> James
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