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From: cae@sdfvm1.vnet.ibm.com (Cornelius Caesar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Bad.sector.list on HD-s?
Message-ID: <9103080835.AA07030@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 20:10:23 GMT
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In article <1991Mar8.003618.25646@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
  vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>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?

The easiest way to use a partially bad HD is to just mark the bad sectors
in the FAT as used (FFF7 or something) so they will never be allocated
again. Of course an optimizer might find them as lost clusters again...

Cornelius                                        cae@sdfvm1.vnet.ibm.com