Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ericom!tnetxa.ericsson.se!etxsral From: etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: ESDI controller WD1007A-WA2 question Message-ID: <19219@tnetxa.ericsson.se> Date: 21 Sep 90 18:04:28 GMT Lines: 25 I have a Western Digital ESDI controller: WD1007A-WA2. I have understand that this controller can't read the bad-sector information that is stored on the harddisk. Does this controller destroy the bad-sector info under low-level formatting or is the info 'protected' ? Is there an utility program that can read the bad-sector info and use it when l-l formatting ? ---- Lars Nilsson Ericsson Telecom AB , Sweden Phone: + 46 (8) 719 7308 Fax: + 46 (8) 645 60 76 INTERNET: etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se FIDONET : Lars Nilsson at 2:201/108.7 Ericsson Corporate Network: VAX-MAIL: TNETXA::ETXSRAL MEMO: ERI.ETX.ETXSRAL IBM : ETXSRAL at LMEL ETXSRAL at LMES