Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!john
From: john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 1.4 Wishes and 3.5" drive question
Keywords: floppy, errors, disk validator
Message-ID: <1600@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 00:35:24 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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My wish for 1.4 is the ability to map out bad blocks on a floppy disk.
I don't think this would be too hard to do since it is done on Hard
Drives, it's just applying it to a smaller device.  My problem is I've
got a batch of sub-standard disks, and I keep getting errors on them,
which is really annoying during a download, since I have to basically
stop it and go find a fresh disk.  This is even more annoying when
you're in the middle of a 400K files...

Now I may have missed this before, but is such a program already
available for use on floppys?  If so, where could I get a copy?  If it
is on a fred fish, just send me the file name and a disk number and
I'll be happy, if it ain't... could you send me a copy?  Thanks for
your help!

John Stoffel        | john@wpi.bitnet    | What can you expect of a day
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