Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:46:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Sergei Gnezdov <sgnezdov@pobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Checking that floppy is still usable Message-ID: <20041231054616.GC88403@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1104470968.85050.10.camel@owl2> References: <1104470968.85050.10.camel@owl2>
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In the last episode (Dec 30), Sergei Gnezdov said: > Every once in a while I need to use floppy (my old machine has floppy > and hard drive only). > > I have a number of floppies. I'd like to know which floppies are > dead and which are still in working condition. > > I don't need to preserve any data, when testing floppy. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null will read the contents of the floppy and print an error if it had problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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