On 11/6/2012 9:51 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any utility that will move the heads on a > floppy drive from one stop to the other? I needed to write a > floppy on an old system and discovered that the drive's head > moving hardware has gotten stiff with disuse. It gets better the > more I do something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=somefile, but a > better thing would be to make the head seek to the outer-most > track, then the inner-most track and back again until things > limber up.
Look at the 'skip' option in 'man dd'. That should do what you desire. Loop it 100 times, with a bash script something like: #!/bin/bash count=0 while [ $count -le 100 ]; do dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=1 dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1 skip=2940 let count=count+1 done That should seek from the 2nd block to nearly the last block of a 1.44MB floppy drive ~100 times. I didn't test this but it should work. Might need minor modification. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/509940c0.8020...@hardwarefreak.com
