[arachne] Re: burned CD's that won't read.....
- From: Glenn Gilbreath Jr. <wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:24:11 -0600
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I think I have some utility on my old Pentium 166, but IIRC it still would not
read diskettes with bad sector zero...it was a freebie. Data recovery software
can be expensive.
Wiz
Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 12/18/2008 6:58 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: burned CD's that won't read.....
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On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:00 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:49:25 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
>
> >> Could it be.... nah, it wouldn't be that... or would it.... that your
> >> floppy drive is suffering wear?
>
> >> Wanna work out how many hours of use the head has had?
>
> That was a rhetorical question <GGGG>
>
> > It is possible that could be the problem.
> > Don't know of any simple and practical way to go about testing that
> > hypothesis other than to replace the floppy drive with a brand new one
>
> If the number of faulty floppies went down, that would be proof enough!
>
> > and log the usage of the floppy disks to determine the average number of
> > reads and writes before failure.
>
> You would have to allow for the fact that not all tracks are used all
> the time except when formatting or testing the disk. And you would have
> to allow for the fact that writing to each track appears to require
> multiple scans of the track, even more if the written data is verified
> after the write.
>
> Nah, I wouldn't wish all that work on anyone.
>
> But it is useful to consider it, just to get a (very) rough idea of how
> far those heads have to travel.
I really hate it when my computer tells me "track 0 bad, disk unusable".
I have heard that there exist some programs to fix the "track 0 bad
problem".
Has anybody else heard of such programs, and does anybody here know if
any of those kinds of programs actually work?
Sam Heywood
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