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[Hal MacArgle <halinux AT kvinet.com>]

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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