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Date:      Tue, 13 May 2003 19:08:33 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To:        xxavi2@x.org.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bads sectors on a floppy disc
Message-ID:  <20030513190122.I34161@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
In-Reply-To: <44n0hqcsev.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <XFMail.20030513000629.xxavi@myrealbox.com> <44n0hqcsev.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Tue, 13 May 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> xxavi <xxavi@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
> > Hi, I have many floppies discs with bads sectors, there's any form for repair
> > the bads sectors?
>
> I don't have any bad disks to check with at the moment, but won't
> fdformat(1) lock out bad sectors?

Sometimes, if you have several floppies with bad sectors [that used
to work fine], you can suspect your floppy drive is defective,
not the floppies.



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