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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI controller WD1007A-WA2 question
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.144041.2368@mccc.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 90 14:40:41 GMT
References: <19219@tnetxa.ericsson.se> <1990Sep22.141538.5608@mccc.uucp> <19344@tnetxa.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <19344@tnetxa.ericsson.se> etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) writes:
=In article <1990Sep22.141538.5608@mccc.uucp>, pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=> 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.
=> 
=> =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.
=> 
=
=Ehh.. Can you explain that a little more.

Sure.  When I unpacked the drive, I photocopied the top; it had the
printed bad block table.  Later, I used the "enter the bad block table
by hand" command from the WD1007 BIOS.

Pete
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