Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:7819 comp.sys.mac.misc:7438 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!wolves!ggw From: ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Disks: marking bad sectors? Summary: is there a prog to link bad sectors into one file? Message-ID: <1991Jan11.053022.17872@wolves.uucp> Date: 11 Jan 91 05:30:22 GMT References: <1990Dec31.181853.28607@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <8103@hub.ucsb.edu> <1991Jan11.122121.3901@csc.anu.edu.au> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Wolves Den UNIX Lines: 23 X-Checksum-Snefru: dc7e7201 babd6971 4377aa68 861ab972 I don't think I'm the only one to face this particular problem. Disks go bad occasionally, with a hard drive, you can try reformatting and letting the lowlevel stuff do the lockouts, for a floppy, its hardly worth worrying. However there are several intermediate size hard-shell floppys on the market that provide large capacities and where the formatting software is fussy enough that bad blocks can make the medium unuseable. Is there a simple program or technique or utility set that allows one to scan the medium for bad sectors and make them as used or link them into a file so that they no longer get in the way. I am aware of 1st Aid Kit and some others to recover files with bad sectors, but I didn't see any options to eliminate the bad sectors from future use. If someone can point me to the proper docs for the disk file layout, I might tackle such a job myself, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. -- Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...mcnc!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw%wolves@mcnc.mcnc.org [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]