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From: johnt@seila.UUCP (john grant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How to find what files are sitting on bad sectors
Message-ID: <464@seila.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 90 18:26:13 GMT
Reply-To: johnt@seila.UUCP (john grant)
Organization: SEI Information Technology, LA, CA
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	Until my new hard drive arrives I have to continue to use a poor
over-stressed 20MB NEC drive as the system/swap volume - it has been running
very hard and warm for a while now and is starting to drop sectors, Disk
Express told me this to my face.

	The question - how do I tell which files are on the affected
sectors ?  If, as I suspect, the driver should be replacing them, then why
are they showing up ?  Given that I can find the files, I am quite prepared
to call them bad files, load new ones and not optimise again.

Useful info: NEC 20MB ST-506 i/f drive, Adaptec non-RLL controller and
SF&I - I know that this suboptimal for a swap drive !


				John