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From: ITOC100@indycms.iupui.edu (James Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: disks and errors
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Date: 25 May 91 15:46:12 GMT
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On Sun, 19 May 91 17:16:22 GMT Heather Betel said:
<   Last fall, I got a 40meg drive for free. It would be real nice
<if I could use it for minix. The problem is that a section of it is
<ruined. This section just happens to fall in the middle of the INODE
<tables. Is there a way to get the hd device to skip over those areas?
<
<Richard Betel
A low level format should block out the bad tracks on the disk, then
you should be able to use it just like normal.

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