HD error; cyl>MAX?

[John M. Sully]

In article <163 at hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
|I'm getting these HD I/O Errors whenever i access my dos partition on drive #1.
|I was about to go and use mkpart -A to map-away those bad sectors when i
|realized, upon closer inspection, that the cylinder (i'm assuming that "Cy:xxx"
|is the cylinder number -- please correct me if i'm wrong; i don't have much
|(read "any") documentation on these error messages (:-() is "804".  But the
|drive only has 512 cylinders!!!  How am i supposed to map that one into the bad
|sector table?  Although, i assume using relentless logic, the error message is
|perfectly correct; cylinder 804 on a 512 cylinder drive would have to be
|considered "bad" i'm afraid...

The disk driver does not do any bad sector mapping when you access the DOS 
partition, so adding this to your bad sector table would probably not help
even if it were a legit error message.  It may be that you have the older 
version of the dos utilities which sometimes had problems deciding between
using 12 and 16 bit FATs.  A newer version is available on the uport BBS.

John