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From: aleneis@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Tony Leneis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wishes and 3.5" drive question
Keywords: floppy, errors, disk validator
Message-ID: <707@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 89 02:43:56 GMT
References: <1600@wpi.wpi.edu> <431@antares.UUCP>
Reply-To: aleneis@jarthur.UUCP (Tony Leneis)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <431@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes:
>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...

	There is a program called bformat which formats bad floppies.  I
believe it just marks all the bad blocks as allocated, but I'm not sure.  In
any case, it seems to work ok.

			- Tony Leneis