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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: DiskCopy (was Re: System 6.0.5 available via anonymous FTP?)
Keywords: developer, duplication
Message-ID: <10517@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 90 16:44:11 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.152250.4947@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <10466@goofy.Apple.COM> <16658@unix.SRI.COM>
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In article <16658@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora) writes:
>>[I write about how to make "Untitled" disks using DiskCopy...]

>I don't think that is such a good idea. I tried doing that with another
>disk copying program and some of the disk failed to write and I had to
>format them anyway. Maybe your program takes into consideration bad blocks.

DiskCopy doesn't format a disk any better or worse than the format done in
the Finder, since the format process is the same (well, mostly).  So a disk
that would fail to format in DiskCopy should fail in the Finder as well.
In neither case are bad blocks spared out...

steve

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