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From: yoshida@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dan P. Yoshida)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Trouble with old disks...
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Date: 24 Jan 91 01:26:15 GMT
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Recently I've been attempting to backup some of my atari disks (some
of which were originally written to in the early 80's). On some of the
disks I've been getting sector read errors (I was using Copymate sector
copier from ANTIC) that generate a "G4" error on my Indus GT drive.
It seems that the drive tries to read the sector several times, but
only sometimes can it eventually read the information (ie, it's NOT a
bad sector).
  Does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to specify a certain
sector to be continually looked at until the information is successfully
read? Will cleaning my drive read/write head help?

--dan

BTW - The disks are regular DOS 2 formatted disks with binary files
      on them (in case someone thought that the errors were from
      the drive encountering tricky copy-protection).




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