In the last episode (Dec 30), Sergei Gnezdov said: > Every once in a while I need to use floppy (my old machine has floppy > and hard drive only). > > I have a number of floppies. I'd like to know which floppies are > dead and which are still in working condition. > > I don't need to preserve any data, when testing floppy.
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null will read the contents of the floppy and print an error if it had problems. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"