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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another FORMAT question
Message-ID: <271@esunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 15:58:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 15:58:34 1986
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Keywords: Verify after a format?

Yes, FORMAT will catch a bad floppy when it verifies. That is how I
have caught bad disks in the past. After getting burned on one disk,
I started formatting all of them before using DISKCOPY. I caught a
couple of bad floppies this way, but then I got lazy (in a hurry!)
and skipped the format step, sure enough, I got burned again.

Since the AmigaDOS DISKCOPY is unreliable, would someone consider
writing a suitable replacement?

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