Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder
From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Bad.sector.list on HD-s?
Keywords: Bad sectors
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.003618.25646@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Mar 91 00:36:18 GMT
References: <2899@hexagon.se>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 20

In article <2899@hexagon.se> pa@hexagon.se (Peter Andersson) writes:
>...I've just gotten hold of a 30 M hard disk and now here is the
>trouble. (The type or whatsoever is irrelevant.)
>
>Background: After formatting, the fysical bad sector marking begins
>but the program can't find any bad one's even though there
>are some fabricial faults on it.
>
>Q: How do I mark them, or more specificaly,
>how is the list of bad sectors built. I know where
>to find it but not how to use/modify it.

The SCSI protocol allows one to send a defect list with the Format
command.  But I don't know any low-level HD formatting programs for the ST
that allow you to specify the defects, so the program can put them in the SCSI
Format command.  Anybody out there know of such a formatting program?
-- 
vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder
vsnyder@jato.uucp