Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!darkstar!helios!ted From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: SPINRITE Keywords: Does it really work? Message-ID: <8936@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 14:18:24 GMT References: <666@seer.UUCP> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Reply-To: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz Lines: 17 >Yes, it can recover bad sectors, but they'll go bad again as soon as you >All in all, it's not worth it. It's slow and clunky. What's more, you can >Aviod it. It's a "Gee-whiz" program, it's really neat what it can do, but --------------------------- Interesting what different people have for opinions of the same product. We've been using Spinrite here for years without a single problem.With few exceptions, we use it as the ounce-of-prevention; to avoid bad sector problems. Just last week, however, I "repaired" a 30MB RLL that would not boot 9 out of 10 tries. There was a bad sector in track zero, and Spinrite either (i forget) moved the data or "repaired" the spot. Places that Spinrite finds bad, it marks in the bad-track-table so they cannot be used again. -ted- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ted@helios.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the W (408)459-2110 |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness H (408)423-2444 |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)