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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mapping HD Bad Blocks
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.213401.23881@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 21:34:01 GMT
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In article <steveh.672683340@tasman> steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes:
[probably in response to someone, maybe me, claiming that a disk with bad
sector 0 was useless]

>	No, Not always. I fixed 6 sony's by re aligning track 0 to track 1.
>
>
>It worked, and still works. The bad track 0 has been forgotten forever...

Now THAT is a neat hack!
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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