disk repair

[Dale Herring]

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 at 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 at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:08 PM
> > To: kclug at 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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