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From: raw@ushiva.UUCP (Roland Wilcher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Floppy formatting and using
Message-ID: <43@ushiva.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 02:43:22 GMT
References: <435@zinn.MV.COM> <639@cimcor.mn.org>
Reply-To: raw@ushiva.UUCP (Roland Wilcher)
Organization: Rolands home computer
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In article <639@cimcor.mn.org> mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) writes:

>I had the same problem (though not 9 out 10 times) making multivolume
>backups nearly impossible. One possible problem seems to be doing the 
>formatting when lot of other things are going on like serial interrupts.
>
>Anyway, I grew tired of the problem and wrote a floppy handler which
>works off the end of a pipe, .i.e  ls|cpio -ocv|dbundle /dev/rdsk/fd ...

I also have this problem. Every time I have had this problem, when i
reformat the disk using ms-dos, the dos format program always reports 
a few K in bad sectors. In order to do backups I have had to format 
the disks under ms-dos and only use those with no bad sectors.
Looks like the uport stuff can't deal with bad sectors on the floppy.
Also appears that the uport format program does not detect the bad 
sectors either.
comments ?

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