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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wishes and 3.5" drive question
Summary: DFC verifies after formatting
Keywords: floppy, errors, disk validator
Message-ID: <431@antares.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 09:00:32 GMT
References: <1600@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <1600@wpi.wpi.edu> john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) writes:
>   ...  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...

You may have noticed that the FORMAT program that comes with the Amiga
simply writes the formatting info to the disk; it does not verify that
it can read what it just wrote.  I have been using Tom Rokicki's DFC
program that is on Fish Disk #131.  It verifys the disk as it is formated,
so that you can identify bad flopies and throw them out before they cause
you grief.  Downloading onto an unverified floppy is not very smart.
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