17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
11:51 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 01:14 AM 6/17/2005, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
For the record, Spinrite 5 works on any machine (but there's a bug where it
only works on 8088/8086 if you use DOS 5 or higher -- I've tried DOS 3.3 and
2.11 and it hangs). I use Spinrite 5 on my IBM 5150 all the time.
(Spinrite 6 requires 386 or higher. Spinrites 1 through 4 work on any machine
with any DOS version, but 5 is the fastest.)
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
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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.