[Coco] toolshed tools lock up on ?FS ERROR disks

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 17:02:08 EST 2017


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Today, I learned that the toolshed tools do not handle bad disks very well. I ran in to two of my disks that have ?FS ERRORs on them. I made sector-by-sector images of my floppies to .DSK files, so I guess I replicated some bad disks.
>
> Doing a copy or even a dir caused the tool to hang.

I have seen the Toolshed tools hang on some files (typically
broken/non disk images). Can I have a copy of your disk image to test?
It could probably be possible to avoid the hang and instead return
some error code/message.

Regards,
Tormod


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