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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bad Block?
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Date: 11 Jan 90 20:44:26 GMT
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In <5395.AA5395@caleb>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>[ Dear Mr. Lineeater, please eat the Atari, FM Towns, and 80386 threads. ]
>
>Hello,
>       this is a request to anyone listening at CBM.  I have an A2090 (not A)
>with two SCSI drives attached.  On the new drive, format locks up on the 812
>cylinder (of 820.)  I assume that this means that there is an unknown bad block
>somewhere on cylinder 812.  How can I identify which block is bad?

It could also be that you have specified one extra sector per track than what
the drive thinks it has, and that you have simply run out of space. Many
drive specs include one extra, but it is not used for 'normal' data, but rather
as a place to put alternate blocks.

-larry

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