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From: ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Hard Disk questions
Message-ID: <701@argon.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 23:16:53 GMT
References: <9186@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <19995@cup.portal.com>
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In article <19995@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>MB, formatted (std, 17 sec/trk)	42.8			71.2
>
>MB, formatted (UNIXPC, 16 sec/trk)	40.3			67.1
>(ignoring the spare sec per track)

What does the Unix PC do with that extra sector?  Is that how it
remaps bad blocks?

-Ed