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From: sytang@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Shoou-yu tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Bad.sector.list on HD-s?
Summary: ICD utilities can
Keywords: Bad sectors
Message-ID: <13466@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 91 00:51:01 GMT
References: <2899@hexagon.se> <1991Mar8.003618.25646@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Mar8.003618.25646@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>In article <2899@hexagon.se> pa@hexagon.se (Peter Andersson) writes:
>>
>>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?
>-- 
 If you have ICD software, then you will find the program called HDUTIL, under 
 it there is a function called Map Bad disk setors. This will allow you to mark
 a sector to be bad in the FAT. And also if you used Adaptec 4070 controller,
 the bad sectors are map out by the card when it format the disk ( that's what
 I remember but not 100% certain, but do seems to recall some SCSI card map out
 the bad sectors so that the host sees the hard drive as no bad sectors).

 Tang
 sytang@lamar.colostate.edu