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
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