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From: learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Floppy formatting and using
Message-ID: <1419@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 14:57:55 GMT
References: <435@zinn.MV.COM> <639@cimcor.mn.org> <43@ushiva.UUCP>
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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In article <43@ushiva.UUCP>, raw@ushiva.UUCP (Roland Wilcher) writes:

> 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 ?

If one follows the instructions included with runtime, one does a
format, a labelit, and an mkfs. None of these added features are
needed to make a cpio backup, and result in a LOT of wasted time.

Running the other two does, somewhere in the sequence (I can't recall
where cause I stopped doing it) identify a read or write error. Hell,
they could have at least included a bell. On the other hand, they
could have done it right.


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