5 inch floppies

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 1:34 PM -0500 9/3/05, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.on.hard ?
> >
> >Is that different from
> >
> >cp /dev/fd0 floppy.on.hard ?
>
> It can be different if you are coping with errors, and need to do it by
> sectors.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.on.hard noerror what_other_options ?

Would bad sectors read as 0s?

One of the things that info dd does not make
clear is what affect, if any, the block options
have on what is physically written to a device.
What effect, if any, does the input block size
(physical or ibs) have on the output?

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