Name
    mbadblocks - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in the FAT

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Description
    The mbadblocks command  is used to scan an MS-DOS floppy and mark its
    unused bad blocks as bad. It uses the following syntax:

    mbadblocks drive:

    Mbadblocks scans an MS-DOS floppy for bad blocks. All unused bad blocks
    are marked as such in the FAT. This is intended to be used right after
    mformat.  It is not intended to salvage bad disks.

Bugs
    Mbadblocks should (but doesn't yet :-( ) also try to salvage bad blocks
    which are in use by reading them repeatedly, and then mark them bad.

See Also
    Mtools' texinfo doc

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