Archiving MFM and RLL drives

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Fri Jun 17 08:44:48 CDT 2005


At 01:14 AM 6/17/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>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.

I tell ya, we've got to enlist Steve Gibson to make a classic-friendly
version of Spinrite to help recover disks that could be readable on
old and new PC-style floppy controllers, and save them to an image format.

- John



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