Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!sdrc!cinnet!kilian From: kilian@cinnet.com (Kilian Jacob) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Bad sectors on a disk Message-ID: <1991Apr28.065658.27719@cinnet.com> Date: 28 Apr 91 06:56:58 GMT References: <1160@cbmger.UUCP> Organization: Cincinnati Network, Cinti. OH Lines: 21 From article <1160@cbmger.UUCP>, by peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY): > And it's also the same with validating: If the DOS decides that your > disk has to be validated (there is no user command for this like in > the old days, but the DOS recognizes certain errors and then starts > the validating process), then your allocated block will be freed again. > So you would have to do this procedure over again. > Therefore the better way is to not only mark these blocks as allocated, > but make up a whole file with these blocks (you have pointers to every > block in the file header block). To do this by hand, you need deep > knowledge about the disk structure to create that file header block > correctly. Perhaps there exists a disk monitor which offers this > service as a feature? > What's about integrating this feature in the format program and the disk validator? That shouldn't be that hard to do. -- /