Re: [SLUG] Floppy troubles

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Paul M Foster wrote:

>SLUGs:
>
>I'm transferring files between home and work on floppies. Both machines
>are Linux (Red Hat and Debian). I'm getting sporadic I/O errors on
>pretty much all my floppies (brand new). I assume this means one or both
>drives are out of alignment or screwed up in some way. Anyone know of a
>command or something that will tell me _which_ one is screwing up?
>
>Paul
>

I don't know if any of these tools will help but look them over.
"floppymeter" looks promising. "diskseekd" is comical.

http://www.linux.gr/cgi-bin/info2www?(fdutils)Commands

->Scott

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