[Lilux-help] Copy floppy including the bad sectors

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:12:06PM +0100, Yves Glodt wrote:

> I wonder how I can make an 1:1 copy of a floppy, including the bad
> sectors on it...

Well, bad sectors are, by definition, unreadable, so I don't think
such a thing is possible. What you can try is to increase the number
of times a bad sectors is tried before returning with an error. I used
to have a program to copy disks where this was tunable in the good'ol
DOS days, vgacopy.

"info --node '(fdutils.info.gz)Error handling options'" seems to talk
about this.

I'm sure Alain will have much more complete explanations than I do :)

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Lionel