Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!pcsbst!jkh From: jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: HELP. Need diskette torture tester for finding bad disks. Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 01:38:22 GMT Sender: news@pcsbst.pcs.com Distribution: comp Organization: PCS Computer Systems, GmbH Lines: 20 Yes, like most folks, I'm occasionally tempted by lower cost disk deals and have about 5 boxes of off-brand specials. For the most part, I've had good luck, but have occasionally have been bitten rather badly. The AmigaDOS format command seems to be virtually useless for finding bad sectors (I'd be very interested to know what it means when it says "verifying") and I've been racking my fish archive looking for something that REALLY formats and verifies a disk. Sure, disks can go bad at any time, but I'd like to at least weed out the initially bad ones and/or be able to verify whether or not a disk has truly "gone bad" before I give it the old heave-ho. Can someone help this poor fool? Jordan -- PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!jkh jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com EUNET: unido!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu or hubbard@decwrl.dec.com