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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Apple should let us e-mail System 7READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Message-ID: <1991May16.183045.14187@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 18:30:45 GMT
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In article <1991May16.065353.4816@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>In article <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu>,
>russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: 
>
>> 
>> SUM Tools works.  Even HyperCard 2.0 works.
>
>Sum Tools certainly does not work in one case: the new Finder has the ability
>to format floppies with bad sectors, but marking the sectors unusable (just
>like DOS has been doing for 10 years). This is one way to reclaim floppies that
>previously were unformattable- we shall see how stable this is. Anyway, if you
>give on of these floppies to the SUM disk checking utility and ask it for a
>disk map, it show you one (with the bad sectors marked as files) but it beeps
>in the process- making one a little leary. It's not a nad bug, but is
>worrisome.

Neither Disk Clinic nor Tools beeped for me.  

>Have yoy been brave enough to use something like the defragmenter- does it
>work? How about the disk backing up?

I don't have enough floppies to do a backup (shhh! Don't tell the hard drive),
but I did use DiskExpress 1.5 under 6.05 to de-frag the disk, and it seemed to
cause no damage (Was a little surprised about that).


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