Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!heurikon!davek
From: davek@heurikon.UUCP (Dave Klann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Bad disk copying
Message-ID: <205@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 13:32:09 GMT
References: <211@toylnd.UUCP>
Reply-To: davek@heurikon.UUCP (Dave Klann)
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Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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In article <211@toylnd.UUCP> dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) writes:
>Help!  This is driving me crazy.  I'm trying to back up disk 8 of 8 in
>my Unix utilities development set.  Unfortunately it has a bad sector.
>      [ Desparate discussion of foiled reads... ]
>If anyone can give me the proper incantations for communicating with the
>spirits of dead floppy disks so as to make copies of them I would be
>most obliged.
>
>David Albrecht

David,

There exists a pogram that MAY be ablle to help you.  A while back afio
was posted to comp.sources.unix.  This is a PD version of cpio (I
believe the acronym is Alternate File I/O) that is much more persistent
than cpio.  It may or may not help, but it's worth a try.

If yo don't have access to a souce archive Id be happy to dig out my
copy of the source and mail it to you.

David Klann
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