Archiving MFM and RLL drives (Was: Re: Default password for Pick system on an AT?)

[Tim Riker]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>>As long as you don't hit a bad block.
> 
> Someone (I think Jules or Philip) figured out there's an option you can
> specify on the command line to tell dd to skip bad blocks and replace any
> bad sectors with zeroes.

dd conv=noerror,sync

is probably what you're after.
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