[ILUG] Ignoring eror signals from floppy disks.

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Kieran OSullivan wrote:

> dd can read some of the disk and if you use the conv=noerror you will get most of it but I want to try and get the stuff in the bad sectors as well I've tried
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=save-my-stuff bs=1 conv=noerror

Skip over the bad sections using the seek and skip parameters to dd and
keep writing it out to the same file. You may need to run dd a few times
to skip over all the bad areas. When you get to the end of the disk, then

mount ./save-my-stuff /mnt -o loop

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Mel Gorman
MSc Student, University of Limerick
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel