[nflug] fsck versus chkdsk

[Cyber Source]

Josh Johnson wrote:
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> From: "Cyber Source" <peter at thecybersource.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] fsck versus chkdsk
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:14:46 -0500
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>> wpos2 at adelphia.net wrote:
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>>> This is the beginning of the new thread I promised several minutes ago.
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>>> In the computer lab, people often come in with floppy disks.  (I 
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>>> I suppose I've found a solution in copying the floppy contents 
>>> back after reformatting, but I'm just miffed that a relatively 
>>> proprietary dinosaur can do what Linux can't.  Or is this a 
>>> symptom of Trade Secret Syndrome?
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> I've had the same luck with Windows and Linux. if a floppy has a bad files system, I need to remove everything, reformat, and replace. But I've had better luck with ext2 than fat. although, I haven't used vfat while lot.
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>>> Any insight will at least give me peace of mind, for which I will 
>>> be grateful.
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>> I would like to see some response to this thread because I have 
>> NEVER had any luck with floppies in Linux. I mean I have used them 
>> yes but they have ALWAYS been troublesome, cross platform or not. 
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> I haven't had much luck with flopies either. And it doesn't seem to matter what kind of file system it is. When I was at school we used a program called "Norton Disk Doctor" with marginal success to retreive data from bad sectors of a floppy. But when one starts going... I can't even dd /dev/zero into it. But if, say, the last half of it is the bad half, then I can use just the first 512k or so. If I can do that, then I've had better luck with linux being able to build a small file system (like ext2) on the good part of the floppy. Windows generally tells me to go pound sand. My general advice to fellow students was to use a zip (almost every computer on campus had a zip drive) or a thumb drive.
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>> If anyone has some insight into easy floppy management in Linux 
>> that just plain works, I'm all ears. Not that it's really a big 
>> deal anymore but I do have a few clients out there with their sony 
>> digital cams that write to the floppies, etc..
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> Wow. that's old sk00l :)
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these are old people (old skool) lol
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