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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI bad track / WD1007A-WA2
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.181554.8495@mccc.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:15:54 GMT
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Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <19704@tnetxa.ericsson.se> etxsral@tnetxa.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson, ERICSSON TELECOM, SWEDEN) writes:
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=I have a Western Digital ESDI controller: WD1007A-WA2.

	Me, too!

=I have understand that this controller can't read the bad-sector
=information that is stored on the harddisk.

	Right!

=Does this controller destroy the bad-sector info under low-level
=formatting or is the info 'protected' ?

	Protected.
	
Pete
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