hard disk problems

[David Solan]

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As Emily Litella would say: neevvver minnnnnnnd.  I bit the bullet and
sacrificed 512 bytes of my hard disk being read in sequentially for
the sake of suffering UNIX humanity.  As you might recall, I asked
the question in a former posting:

>                                 Isn't it true that when you place a
>sector on the bad block table, via the Diagnostic Floppy for the UNIX
>PC, the actual data contents of the "bad" sector are NOT moved to the
>17th sector of the track it is mapped to, so that data on that sector
>is lost forever if you do this?  I was sure this was the case.  Was I
>wrong?

I tested it out.  I was NOT wrong!  You most assuredly DO lose 512
bytes for every sector you put on the bad block table (at least via
the Diagnostic Floppy program that I am using).  What appears in the
place of what was once beautiful data is just a string of 512
hexidecimal ff's.  So think Objective Utilities!

P.S. Sorry, but my USENET .signature was wrong in my last posting --
factually and getting 2 nodes mixed up.  NOW it is correct, both ways.

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		David  Solan
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