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Re: how to create errors on floppy disks
From: |
Bauke Jan Douma |
Subject: |
Re: how to create errors on floppy disks |
Date: |
Fri, 14 May 2004 01:25:39 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:12:46PM +0300, Buciuman Adrian wrote:
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> Can fdutils be used to make some sectors ( but not all ) on a floppydisk
> unreadable ( i.e. give an I/O error when read from /dev/fd0 ) ?
> This can be used to test and debug dd and maybe other utilities ( for
> data recovery etc )
Use a magnet or a hairpin.
BJ