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  • From: Hal MacArgle <halinux AT kvinet.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3-21fd.zip download problem
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:03:28 -0400

On 07-29, Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> The hard part was getting two good 1.44 floppy disks. Apparently they get
> tarnished or something while sitting around. A first format showed 9-80K
> bad sectors. A second format showed all good sectors except on the disk
> with 130K bad. The second format was done on a different computer but
> scandisk on this one confirmed all good (and it worked for BL3 image
> file). So now we can repair a few more floppy disks and make several
> copies and hope one works on the laptop, where DOS ppp won't work.

Some distribs of Linux, Slackware for one, has two fairly
good floppy checker's:

dosfsck -tvr /dev/fd0

mbadblocks a:

I've found some bad ones with the above the others passed.

Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20-1)
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