[Coco] Challenge: identifying file type by sector of data

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Tue Jan 13 13:15:15 EST 2015


> On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> What is wrong with the "bad" directory sector? It won't read? It can be read but is trashed? Can you make an image of one of these bad disks such that the "bad" sector content is the same as the real disk?
> If you can make an image that is identical to the "bad" disk, send it to me.

?IO ERROR ... can't read the sectors. I have about two dozen or so disks with errors (some went bad while I looked at them; should have done the backup first but was looking to see what was on them to know what to name the .dsk image). Most disks are things I hope others have (games, etc.) but some are BBS buffer saves and the like.

		-- Allen



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