Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: ESDI controller WD1007A-WA2 question Message-ID: <1990Sep22.141538.5608@mccc.uucp> Date: 22 Sep 90 14:15:38 GMT References: <19219@tnetxa.ericsson.se> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One Lines: 19 In article <19219@tnetxa.ericsson.se> etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) writes: =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. True. =Does this controller destroy the bad-sector info under low-level =formatting or is the info 'protected' ? ??? I just copied the table that was on the HD. Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91