From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 05:46:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770A116A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:46:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059C843D55 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iBV5kHdt087130; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:46:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:46:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Sergei Gnezdov Message-ID: <20041231054616.GC88403@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1104470968.85050.10.camel@owl2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1104470968.85050.10.camel@owl2> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Checking that floppy is still usable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:46:20 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 30), Sergei Gnezdov said: > Every once in a while I need to use floppy (my old machine has floppy > and hard drive only). > > I have a number of floppies. I'd like to know which floppies are > dead and which are still in working condition. > > I don't need to preserve any data, when testing floppy. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null will read the contents of the floppy and print an error if it had problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com