[Coco] RETRIEVE utility...

[John Collyer]

The way retrieve works when it gets a read error
is it tries to read the bad sector 3 times.  If it still
can't read it it'll display the message.

Abort, Retry, Ignore, or Continuous?

John Collyer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:41 AM
Subject: [Coco] RETRIEVE utility...


> Hi,
> 
> I was playing around with RETRIEVE on some unreadable disks and was
> analyzing its behaviour. It looks like after a read error it isn't
> trying to seek to track 0 and position the head to the damaged track
> again. But I guess this could help with some tracking problems. I wonder
> if it's possible to execute a "Read Track" command which would read the
> whole track. A software could analyze that data and try to extract the
> logical information from that (I made that on the CoCo).
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Torsten
> 
> 
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