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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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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:12:46PM +0300, Buciuman Adrian wrote:
> 
> 
>   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




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