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Offline madsjm

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Re: Best way to archive my floppies
« on: August 07, 2007, 09:15:25 AM »
Reading the disk name might sound like a good idea, but I think it may introduce more problems than it actually solves.
For example, many savedisks have names like Empty, Saves etc. You would have to take into account that many floppies may have the same name?
Besides.. Floppies with games, demos etc may have names which you won't be able to understand once you have saved hundred of them as adf. If you can read the labels, it's far easier to spend the extra 3 seconds writing a sensible file name.

Just my 2000 cents.  :crazy:
 

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Re: Best way to archive my floppies
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 07:56:05 AM »
@Dopuser:
I'm just saying I could probably archive 100 floppies before you are finished debugging your script. :-P

If someone can write / has written that kind of script, please let me know, as I am in the process of archiving all my floppies.  :-)

Edit: I use a utility called readdisk to archive the floppies. It tries to re-read damaged blocks 20-30 times (I forgot), and archives the floppy to adf. I got it from a guy over at  www.exotica.org.uk.
I then burn the adfs to cd or dvd, and keep a copy on my pc.