Re: copying disks with dd and cat

Geoff Crompton wrote: > > I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. > I initially used > % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image Seems reasonable. > However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: > [...] > So then for some reason I tried cating the file: > % cat

copying disks with dd and cat

Hi all. I've just been copying a floppy disk onto my hard drive to back it up. I initially used % dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk_image However it barfed with an IO error, and dmesg shows: % dmesg VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) floppy0: CRC error: track 53, head 0, sector 16, size