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to: KAI RICHTER
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2016-11-30 08:42:00
subject: Re: Diskcopy

Hi Kai,

On 2016-11-30 04:17:16, you wrote to Holger Granholm:

 KR> If you have two floppy drives, they are usually /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1

 KR> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1

You better add 'conv=noerrors,sync' to that if you want a better chance to end
up with a usable disk in case of read errors!

Or even better use 'ddrescue' if you suspect there will be bad source disks...

Bye, Wilfred.

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