I thought it was sector 9 you're worried about, but what it's formatted as, I'm not sure. I'll have to play with teledisk, which I know is capable of making the copy from a file on disk somewhere.. It'd be fun to try to try it, to see how it's done. What's even used to create such disks? Would it be something everyone could do to actually create a floppy with contents you don't want copied? I don't think zip disks can do this since the sectors are layed out optically so they can't be changed. At 05:11 PM 12/11/02 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Brent Harding wrote: > >> How would you copy the jaws disk in linux? And remove the bad sector from it >> if you need to format it in to a regular disk again? I thought I had one >> around to try, teledisk in dos, but what to use in windows? Teledisk works >> like a dream! > >The JAWS key disk has no bad sectors at all. simply one of them is >formatted using a different sector size code other than 512 bytes and the >relevant key information is stored there. On Linux you can use tools from >the fdutils package to play around on the disk, finding out where the >special sector is, what is its sector size code, and finally duplicate it on >another disk... all from the command line with standard tools. > >In a past life I had a script that simply copied JFW key disks on Linux but >it's now lost. And since I've not used JFW for many years now (I now use >Linux exclusively) I've not rewritten it, and I wouldn't have shared it >anyway (I might tell you how to defeat copy protection measure but won't go >as far as giving away the arm of the crime). Writing such a script is a >good exercise for someone who might be interested enough though. > > >Nicolas > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list