On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Randell Jesup wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Randell Jesup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
> bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
As Julian Stacey wrote:
> Would be nice, Joerg W. (cc'd) looked in that direction somewhat
> I recall, I can't remember how far he got, I do recall some patches
> I didnt get to try, can't remember quite what for, Joerg, can
> you recall ?
Use "fdread -r" for this (FreeBSD-current only).
> An
Christopher Weimann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Randell Jesup wrote:
> > Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
> > bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
> > disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's?
> >
>
> M
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Randell Jesup wrote:
>
> Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
> bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
> disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's?
>
Mine will all disapear once I manage d
Randell Jesup wrote:
[snip]
> Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and
> bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of
> disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's?
I think we will have to assume that the floppy will hang
around for some tim
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Randell Jesup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes (if anyone still cares about floppies). The old Amiga
> > trackdisk (floppy driver) could do that, since all the decoding was in
> > software (and via the graphics bitblitter(!)). Do the integrate
Terry Lambert wrote:
> Julian Stacey wrote:
> > Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
> > http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c & vali
> d.1
> >
> > `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
> > (because read() o
Randell Jesup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes (if anyone still cares about floppies). The old Amiga
> trackdisk (floppy driver) could do that, since all the decoding was in
> software (and via the graphics bitblitter(!)). Do the integrated disk
> controllers in PC's (still) allow di
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Julian Stacey wrote:
>> Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
>> http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c & valid.1
>>
>> `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
>> (becau
Julian Stacey wrote:
> Doubtless some will have bad sectors by now. Here's a rescue tool:
> http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/valid/valid.c & valid.1
>
> `Valid' runs on FreeBSD, but only rescues when running on MSDOS !
> (because read() on DOS3.2 returns the intact buffer e
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