First post, by AlessandroB
I have lots of Amiga formatted 720kb floppies with Amiga software inside. They come from different years and different people. Some have been preserved well and some poorly. In between there are perfectly good disks, disks with bad sectors, disks that are nailed in their case and disks even with mold.
To check the working ones and throw away the dozens and dozens that don't work I would have to check them, only that checking them by inserting them into an original Amiga drive exposes it to making it unusable if I were to insert a blocked disk or one with a moldy surface, these drives are very rare and expensive
So I wanted to use the cheap 1.44 PC drives to do this. Obviously the PC isn't able to interpret what's inside the drive... but I don't think it's necessary either. Is there any software that does a sort of RAW reading of the disk surface to see if the disk is spinning, has problems, has an unreadable surface, etc.? Or does it necessarily have to interpret the contents of floppy disk files?
Thank you.
