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From: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,wpi.sys.ibm
Subject: Re: Hard Drive format failure
Keywords: hard drive format failure
Message-ID: <5644@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 15:45:51 GMT
References: <5352@wpi.wpi.edu> <5641@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <5641@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>In article <5352@wpi.wpi.edu> vertical@wpi.wpi.edu (Anthony D Putorti) writes:
>This means:  cylinder 0, head 1, sector 18.  An address mark is an
>"out-of-band" byte that indicates the beginning of the track (it's a byte
>which is always completely unique from any data bytes so it never gets
>confused with them).

oops, make 'of the track'= 'of each sector'