The floppy module might not be loaded by default. USB floppy drives do not need this as they appear as standard USB mass storage devices. The module floppy is used as a driver for floppy drives (for classical floppy controllers). Most of the floppy drives should be supported by stock kernel. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive (FDD).Ĭommon tasks with floppy disks are described bellow, with available tools to accomplish them. (Discuss in Talk:Floppy disks)Ī floppy disk, also called a diskette, is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles. I wonder if there is some program that work like DBAN I could use - so I can set to do low level format continuously, and after several hours check if bad sectors were fixed or not, and then be sure that this particular one is dead for sure.Reason: Cover fdformat(8) and recovering a "dead" floppy. My thought is that maybe since the data was in one area for so many years, that part of diskette was so magnetized that windows treated that as bad sector, and thatĬan anyone with more technical knowledge confirm my guess?Īnother thing is that windows format utility isn't very user friendly when it comes to format tens of floppy disks multiple times. So I took some and formatted them multiple times, and for some it actually fixed all bad sectors. I formatted them and found out that unfortunately most of them had bad sectors.īut when I tried to do full format on Windows95, some of them had their number of bad sectors decreased. Hello guys, I have found a bunch of 3,5" diskettes in my parents home.
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