beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert Beaty) (12/09/86)
<<<<<>>>>> (from the author of the first FORMAT question comes...) Question: When in 1.2, the FORMAT command formats a track, then says it is Verifying that same track before moving on to the next track. Is this a good verify? i.e. if there is a bad sector would this verify fail and tell me that I can't use this disk? Can someone who has a bad disk try this and let me (us) know? Thanks for responding to my last question, and this one too... Bob ---------- ... ihnp4!pur-ee!beatyr <- usenet ... beatyr@ed.ecn.purdue.edu <- arpa-net ... beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP <- UUCP ----------
blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (12/11/86)
Yes, FORMAT will catch a bad floppy when it verifies. That is how I have caught bad disks in the past. After getting burned on one disk, I started formatting all of them before using DISKCOPY. I caught a couple of bad floppies this way, but then I got lazy (in a hurry!) and skipped the format step, sure enough, I got burned again. Since the AmigaDOS DISKCOPY is unreliable, would someone consider writing a suitable replacement? -- ================================================= "The Admiral is well aware of the regulations..." ================================================= Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland {ihnp4, decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne 560 Arapeen Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 (801) 582-5847