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From: REEKES@applelink.Apple.COM (Jim Reekes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 re-verify
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Date: 11 Apr 91 00:31:23 GMT
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In article <kc0kcZm00WB7I2BUwF@andrew.cmu.edu>, jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace) writes:

>    I just erased a disk that was giving me problems and I watched the usually
> boring description of what was happening.  Thing is, system 7 (b4) said it
> was re-verifying the disk at one point.  It took about as much time as the
> normal verify, which it also did.
> 
>    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 answered in Tech Note #287:	Hey Buddy, Can You Spare A Block?

What's happening is that your disk is bad, but System 7 is attempting to
map out the bad sectors.  This disk is now usable by HFS.

Jim Reekes E.O., Macintosh Toolbox Engineering