At 14:29 20.03.99 , Catalin Bucur wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Normally, if I try to make an image of a healthy disk (3.5") with dd:
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename
>I obtain a filename with 1474560 bytes length (2880*512).
>The problem is: if I have one bad sector(512 bytes) on that disk, I want
>to create an image with the same length. Something like that:
>dd if/dev/fd0 of=filename conv=noerror bs=512 count=2880
>This command skips the bad block, but the image file length's is 1474048
>bytes.
>How can I solve that?
Sorry, I don't understand. You want the same length? Do a 'dd if=/dev/zero
bs=512 count=1 >> filename'
and you Append 512 zero bytes. But I don't expect that's what you want.
Automation?
Fill the bad Sector with zeros?
raven
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