W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (03/13/85)
Thanks to Charlie Strom <CSTROM@SIMTEL20> we now have CERTIFY
available from Simtel20:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory MICRO:<CPM.DSKUTL>
CERTIFY.LBR.1 BINARY 17280 A173H
Here is an excerpt from the .DOC file:
Certify is a Disk Certification and Utility program. It has been
placed in the Public Domain by the Author Cark Beck. It comes to you
compliments of the Denver, Co. Xerox Computer Club. Certify is
essentially menu driven as in the example below:
"CERTIFY"
DISK CERTIFICATION & UTILITY Rev 2.4 3/29/84
By: Carl Beck
Arvada, CO.
Enter desired drive. ( A - P) "A"
The Disk in Drive A has:
77 Logical Tracks 2 Reserved System Tracks
52 128 Bytes Records per Track 128 Directory Entries.
DISK CAPACITY
243 Blocks at 2048 Bytes Each. = 486 Kilobytes.
SELECT DESIRED TASK FROM THE FOLLOWING MENU
CERT - Read Disk & Report Errors | LOGBAD - Log Bad Blocks in Directory
DIR - Print DIR | DIB - Print DIR with Block Numbers
CPM - Return to CP/M | DSK - Select a Drive
DUMP - Display in Hex/ASCII
Only the first 3 letters "DUM"
SELECT DESIRED DATA
B - Block | T - Track | S - Sector | N - File name
R - Return to main menu.
If Hex Numbers entered, enter H in front of Number
"T"
Enter Track Number (1 - 76 ) 1
Enter Sector Number (0 - 51 ) 0
TRACK 1 - SECTOR 0 - PHYSICAL SECTOR 0 - BLOCK -1
addr 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00 (SECTOR DATA IN HEX) (SECTOR DATA
10 IN ASCII)
20
30
40
50
60
70
And so on and so forth through the various menues.
END
--Keith