Actually "noerror" has an upper limit (5 I think) of how many errors it
can encounter, "ignerror" does not. It may be that it did not get ported
from Unix to Linux with that feature though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Herring [mailto:dale_n_ks@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:31 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RE: disk repair
> 
> 
> actually once dd was pointed out... duh.. brain fart..
> anyway the syntax is 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/doskisk bs=512 count=2880
> conv=noerror
> at least that is what it is on my SuSE system.
> 
> just for future reference....
> 
> Thanks for everyones input...
> 
> 
> Dale
> 
> --- Brian Densmore <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com> wrote:
> > How about:
> > dd if=/dev/floppy of=/tmp/dosdisk bs=512 count=2880
> > option=ignerorr 
> > or is it:
> > dd if=/dev/floppy of=/tmp/dosdisk bs=512 count=2880
> > conv=ignerror
> > ?
> > 
> > Downside here is the blocks skipped over will be
> > zero filled.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dale Herring [mailto:dale_n_ks@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:08 PM
> > > To: kclug@kclug.org
> > > Subject: disk repair
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What I am trying to do is get some files off of a
> > > floppy for a person.... floppy won't read in a
> > windows
> > > box... but I have been able to read them in a
> > linux
> > > box what that happens... unfortunatly this one
> > isn't
> > > being a cooperative... so I am looking for another
> > way
> > > to get past the I/O errors...
> > > Can't believe someone would put files on a floppy
> > > without duplicate backups....but , well you
> > know...
> > > 
> > > 
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