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From: z@pro-fishunt.cts.com (Jim Ziogas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Optimizing
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Date: 29 May 90 04:37:56 GMT
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I have two questions-

1) I have heard that a periodic re-formatting of a hard drive will improve its
performance. Well, I use ProSel-16 to optimize hy hard drive often. So, is
anything else besides optimization achieved by re-formatting? Do I really need
to re-format the drive?

2) I have two equal partitions on my 60 meg drive. The first contains all of
the GS/OS boot stuff and gs-specific stuff, while the second contains all
8-bit stuff. Well, about 6 months ago, I ran the ProSel-16 bad block scan and
lockout. I came across 230+ bad blocks on the second partition. I just got the
drive a year ago, but it wasn't until 6 months ago that I ran the bad block
scan. I don't know if these bad blocks were always there or if the appeared
after some use. No more have popped up, but those 230+ are still there. My
question is this- are these blocks anything to worry about? Are bad blocks
normal? It seemed to be a very routine step in ProSel-16, so I don't know what
to think.

Also, could number 2 be related to number 1 at all? The dealer formatted the
drive (which is a GCC Technologies FX/60 drive), so I'm not really sure how he
did it. Both partitions are 32 megs, so the whole hard drive is recognized.
The bad blocks are at the end of the second partion. Could the software be
reading more than what's there?

Thanks for any help.

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