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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Formatting Disks under 7.0
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:29:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.164800.16394@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully) writes...
>disks that 6.0.7 said were bad.  They formatted (much to my surprise.).
>During formatting, however, the disks were verified twice (the format

 I believe that systems previous to 7.0 would not allow a disk to be used if
 any sectors were bad. 7.0 locks out bad sectors (new feature!).

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