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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@skylink.it>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/12981: Bad *.flp files and and raw write program 
Message-ID:  <199908122230.PAA60815@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/12981; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@skylink.it>
To: dvditto@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/12981: Bad *.flp files and and raw write program 
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:12:46 +0000 (GMT)

 > When I use the raw write program you supplied with your boot images
 > it actually creates bad sectors on my floppy disk.  When I use
 > annoter version of raw write with you boot images, raw write stops
 > part way though and reports that there is a bad sector, however
 > there is aren't any bad boot on the disk. >How-To-Repeat:
 
 How did you verify that the floppy is ok? Did you try another floppy?
 
 It is impossible for a normal utility to create bad blocks on a floppy.
 If you want to check whether you have bad blocks try the following
 command:
 
 	dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1440
 
 That should produce an error on reading the floppy.
 
 Nick
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 e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it
 
 


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