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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Disks: marking bad sectors?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.031627.10898@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 03:16:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jan11.053022.17872@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>
>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.

Symantec's SUM II utilities have this ability.
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