Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7 re-verify Message-ID: <1991Apr10.210353.29514@visix.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 21:03:53 GMT References: Sender: news@visix.com Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 17 In article jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace) writes: Is this a feature that it does all the time, or is it just used on disks that are giving screwy verification results? I didn't have time to format other disks to check. Anyone seen/tried the same thing? This is a new feature: if the Mac discovers bad blocks, it will mark them as used and re-verify the disk. This will let you use disks with media defects on them, at the cost of a block or two ffor each defect. The "re-verifying format" message signifies that it's doing this second scan. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- X Windows: Live The Nightmare.