From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Nicolas Welte wrote:

I'm trying to help someone convert a few 8050 disks he has lying about
and many of them seem unreadable (errors on directory and disk copy with cbmlink). Anyone out there know of any utilities to read/copy the disks
and thus get past any errors? DOS copy won't let me. Something like
Fast copy for the 8050, or program/code to do a direct access to the
disk read routines?

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|Hi Larry,
|
|I have a similar problem. I'm not aware of any utilities that are able
|to make copies or images of damaged disks. In theory it's the same as
|with the 1541, for some errors the contents of the damaged sector are
|already in the DOS buffer. For other errors (header errors) the sector
|is not read into the buffer, even if it's still on the disk.

Frequently enough, the data is still in the buffer, but for a decode
error.

Try driving the job queue.

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