Re: Disk Muncher

["Michael J. Mahon" <mahon@cup.hp.com>]

Dave Althoff wrote:
> 
> Richard Bennett (richard.b@genie.com) wrote:
> : In article <19990116125651.11623.00002202@ng-ch1.aol.com>,
> : cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:
> 
> : > I always used DM1 (which was a
> : > very special version) that was made as a collective effort by some of
> : > the most skilled krackers of that time.
> 
> : All versions of Disk Muncher disabled checksum and trailer validation,
> : making disk copying completely unreliable yet to the naive seemingly
> : faster and more reliable. Serves anyone right who actually used the thing.
> 
> Interesting.  I had a darned near 100% success rate with Disk Muncher
> copies of never-protected DOS 3.3 disks.  Granted, I was only asking it to
> do the easy jobs, but that was all I needed.  Did I just get lucky?

Yes, you did.  I was using it to make backup copies of my checkbook data
disk until I needed to use a backup to recover...  One bad sector on the
backup that was never detected by Disk Muncher, and a long evening
trying
to piece my files back together.  ;-(

-michael